History A-Level
Domesday Survey 1086
What Domesday Survey 1086 means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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A record of landholders, values and resources revealing the extent of Norman influence, showing that by 1086 most major landholders were Norman.
Topics that use Domesday Survey 1086
- State, church and society, 1066–1106 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of royal government
- Church reform and discipline
- Conflict and compromise in appointments
- Land tenure
- Local office-holding and the enforcement of royal justice
- Manumission
- Norman aristocracy
- Royal forests
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