Key Term

Definition

Resistance

Opposition against a ruler or government

Edgar Aetheling

Anglo-Saxon claimant to the English throne

Rebellion

Armed uprising against authority

Harrying of the North

William’s destruction of northern England in 1069–1070

Hereward the Wake

Anglo-Saxon rebel linked to Ely

Motte and Bailey

Early Norman castle design

Cavalry

Soldiers who fight on horseback

Northumbria

Region in northern England

Ely

Marshland area where rebels resisted the Normans

Norman

People from Normandy who conquered England