are you good at English history? (1000-1200)?

Question

Hi. Ok, so I need someone to answer these questions. in the SIMPLEST way possible! in points if you will. don't make me read a whole essay or documentary or anything, thanks but no.

Were these kings "GOOD" or "BAD" (as in was england in a "golden age" during their rule)? WHY(how was it "golden", what did they do? ex: expand territory from x-y, tax,etc)?

- Edward the confessor
- William I of england
- Henry II of england
- Richard the lionheart
- John of england

thanks in advance!
this isnt for my homework, so no, im not a slacker! but i have a test tomorrow and i forgot my book at school!! (ok, so i AM kind of a slacker. but please help me! just tell me what you know if you can. PLEASE)

Answer 1

No way. Look 'em up. You ARE a slacker.

Oh, and Henry VIII was not mentioned, and he only beheaded a couple of his English wives.

Answer 2

Since you don't want a whole essay, I'll keep my answers brief.

Edward the Confessor - BAD. He failed to father an heir and the resulting confusion over the succession led to two foreign invasions.
William I of England - BAD. Destroyed the Saxon nobility and ordered the harrying of the north. Spoke French.
Henry II - GOOD. Solved the succession crisis and hugely expanded English territory. Suffered from being a redhead.
Richard - BAD. Failed to administer his lands in any meaningful way. Rebelled against his father before becoming king. Spent very little time in England. Failed to father an heir.
John - GOOD. Secured the succession by fathering a son. Began the process of creating a constitutional democracy by signing the Magna Carta. Improved and expanded the tax system.

Of course, there might be other things you could say about each of those kinds, but you wanted simple answers.

Answer 3

Edward the Confessor: Good king. Anglo Saxon. After his death, Harold Godwinson became king. He ended up losing England to William the Conqueror and the Anglo Saxons ceased to be the rulers of England. Now, it was the Normans/Plantagenets ruling England.

William I: First Norman king. Really imposed strong feudal system on England. Improved upon the administration set up by the Saxons.

Richard the Lionheart: Couer de Lion. A real maverick. He was fearless. He fought in the crusades and was much respected throughout the world. He was away a lot fighting the crusades.

John- Poor king. Richard's brother. Lost control of government and was forced to sign Magna Carta in 1215, giving some key powers to the Barons. Basis of English constitutional rights. REMEMBER MAGNA CARTA, 1215. JOHN SIGNED THIS.

Answer 4

Henry was a ruthless dictator to the country that broke off of catholicism, beheaded numerous wives, and persecuted those who didn't follow the new church reformation

Richard the Lionheart was a good leader, to the people he faced, he was respected in some ways but known to be violent, when he took a certain city in the middle east, he had about 3,000 executed. He was there during the crusades and meant to conquer Jerusalem with a minimal army compared to that of the Muslims.

The rest i dont know

Answer 5

Edward the Confessor or Eadweard III (c. 1004 – 4 January 1066)
bad- His reign marked the continuing disintegration of royal power in England
It was during the reign of Edward that some features of the English monarchy familiar today were introduced. Edward is regarded as responsible for introducing the royal seal and coronation regalia. Also under Edward, a marked change occurred in Anglo-Saxon art, with continental influences becoming more prominent (including the "Winchester Style" which had become known in the 10th century but prominent in the 11th), supplanting Celtic influences prominent in preceding painting, sculpture, calligraphy and jewellery (see Benedictional of St. Æthelwold for an example of the Winchester Style). His crown is believed to have survived until the English Civil War when Oliver Cromwell allegedly ordered it to be destroyed. Gold from it is understood to have been integrated into the St. Edward's Crown, which has been used in coronations since Charles II of England in 1661.

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William of Normandy
William invaded England, won a victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest
the death of William's cousin King Edward the Confessor of England (January 1066), William claimed the throne of England, asserting that the childless and purportedly celibate Edward had named him his heir during a visit by William (probably in 1052) and that Harold Godwinson, England's foremost magnate and brother-in-law of the late King Edward the Confessor, had reportedly pledged his support while shipwrecked in Normandy (c. 1064). Harold made this pledge while in captivity and was reportedly tricked into swearing on a saint's bones that he would give the throne to William
William initiated many major changes. In 1085, in order to ascertain the extent of his new dominions and maximize taxation, William commissioned the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey of England's productive capacity similar to a modern census. He also ordered many castles, keeps, and mottes, among them the Tower of London, to be built across England to ensure that the rebellions by the English people or his own followers would not succeed. His conquest also led to Norman replacing English as the language of the ruling classes for nearly 300 years.
William is said to have deported some of the Anglo-Saxon land owning classes into slavery through Bristol.[citation needed] Many of the latter ended up in Umayyad Spain and Moorish lands. Ownership of nearly all land in England and titles to religious and public offices were given to Normans. Many surviving Anglo-Saxon nobles emigrated to other European kingdoms.
-turning land owners into slaves would not make him good, but he was into protecting england
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Henry II of England (5 March 1133-6 July 1189) ruled as Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and as King of England (1154–1189) and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotlandeastern Ireland, and western France.
Following the disputed reign of King Stephen, Henry's reign saw efficient consolidation. Henry II has acquired a reputation as one of England's greatest medieval kings.
During Stephen's reign the barons had subverted the state of affairs to undermine the monarch's grip on the realm; Henry II saw it as his first task to reverse this shift in power. For example, Henry had castles torn down which the barons had built without authorization during Stephen's reign, and by 1159, scutage, a fee paid by vassals in lieu of military service, had become a central feature of the king's military system. Record keeping improved dramatically in order to streamline this taxation.

Henry II established courts in various parts of England and first instituted the royal practice of granting magistrates the power to render legal decisions on a wide range of civil matters in the name of the Crown. His reign saw the production of the first written legal textbook, providing the basis of today's "Common Law".

By the Assize of Clarendon (1166), trial by jury became the norm. Since the Norman Conquest, jury trials had been largely replaced by trial by ordeal and "wager of battel" (which English law did not abolish until 1819). Provision of justice and landed security was further toughened in 1176 with the Assize of Northampton, built on the earlier agreements at Clarendon. This reform proved one of Henry's major contributions to the social history of England.Henry was excommunicated but obtained his rehabilitation thanks to the efforts of Robert de Torigny, abbot of Mont St Michel.
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Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 to 1199. In his own time, the troubadour Bertran de Born called him Òc-e-Non ('Yes-and-No'), while some later writers referred to him as Richard the Lionheart, or Cœur de Lion, as he is still known in France.
When Richard I was crowned King of England, he barred all Jews and women from the ceremony (apparently a concession to the fact that his coronation was not merely one of a king but of a crusader), but some Jewish leaders arrived to present gifts for the new king. According to Ralph of Diceto, Richard's courtiers stripped and flogged the Jews, then flung them out of court. When a rumour spread that Richard had ordered all Jews to be killed, the people of London began a massacre. Many Jews were beaten to death, robbed, and burnt alive. Many Jewish homes were burned down and several Jews were forcibly baptised. Some sought sanctuary in the Tower of London, and others managed to escapeRichard swore an oath to renounce his past wickedness in order to show himself worthy to take the cross. He started to raise and equip a new crusader army. He spent most of his father's treasury (filled with money raised by the Saladin tithe), raised taxes, and even agreed to free King William I of Scotland from his oath of subservience to Richard in exchange for 10,000 marks. To raise even more money he sold official positions, rights, and lands to those interested in them. Even those already appointed were forced to pay huge sums to retain their posts.Richard's legacy comprised several parts. First, he captured Cyprus, which proved immensely valuable in keeping the Frankish kingdoms in the Holy Land viable for another century. Second, his absence from the English political landscape meant that the highly efficient government created by his father was allowed to entrench itself, though King John would later abuse it to the breaking point. The last part of Richard's legacy was romantic and literary. No matter the facts of his reign, he left an indelible imprint on the imagination extending to the present, in large part because of his military exploits. This is reflected in Steven Runciman's final verdict of Richard I: "he was a bad son, a bad husband and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier."
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John (24 December c. 1166 – 18/19 October 1216) reigned as King of England from 6 April 1199
When Richard died, John did not gain immediate universal recognition as king. Some regarded his young nephew, Arthur of Brittany, the son of John's late brother Geoffrey, as the rightful heir. Arthur fought his uncle for the throne, with the support of King Philip II of France. The conflict between Arthur and King John had fatal consequences.

The war upset the barons of Poitou enough for them to seek redress from the King of France, who was King John's feudal overlord with respect to certain territories on the Continent. In 1202, John was summoned to the French court to answer the charges. John refused and, under feudal law, because of his failure of service to his lord, the French King claimed the lands and territories ruled by King John as Count of Poitou, declaring all John's French territories except Gascony in the southwest forfeit. The French promptly invaded Normandy; King Philip II invested Arthur with all those fiefs King John once held (except for Normandy), and betrothed him to his daughter Mary.

Needing to supply a war across the Channel, in 1203 John ordered all shipyards (including inland places such as Gloucester) in England to provide at least one ship, with places such as the newly-built Portsmouth being responsible for several. He made Portsmouth the new home of the navy (the Anglo-Saxon kings, such as Edward the Confessor, had royal harbours at Sandwich, Kent). By the end of 1204, he had 45 large galleys available to him, and from then on an average of four new ones every year. He also created an Admiralty of four admirals, responsible for various parts of the new navy. During John's reign, major improvements were made in ship design, including the addition of sails and removable forecastles. He also created the first big transport ships, called buisses. John is sometimes credited with the founding of the modern Royal Navy.
When Hubert Walter, the Archbishop of Canterbury died on 13 July 1205, John became involved in a dispute with Pope Innocent III. The monks of Christ Church chapter in Canterbury claimed the sole right to elect Hubert's successor, but both the English bishops and the King had an interest in the choice of successor to this powerful office. When their dispute could not be settled, the monks secretly elected one of their members as Archbishop. A second election imposed by John resulted in another nominee. When they both appeared in Rome, Innocent disavowed both elections and his candidate, Stephen Langton, was elected over the objections of John's observers. Innocent thus disregarded the King's rights in selection of his own vassals. John was supported in his position by the English barons and many of the English bishops and refused to accept Langton.

Having successfully put down the Welsh Uprising of 1211 and settling his dispute with the papacy, John turned his attentions back to his overseas interests. The European wars culminated in defeat at the Battle of Bouvines, which forced the king to accept an unfavourable peace with France.

This finally turned the barons against him (some had already rebelled against him after he was excommunicated), and he met their leaders at Runnymede, near London, on 15 June 1215, to sign the Great Charter called, in Latin, Magna Carta. Because he had signed under duress, however, John received approval from his overlord the Pope to break his word as soon as hostilities had ceased, provoking the First Barons' War and an invited French invasion by Prince Louis of France

i think Henry II and Richard the lionheart is the only golden one.