Abergavenny grew as a town in early Norman times under the protection of the Lords of Abergavenny.

Before the Norman conquest in 1066, justice was administered primarily by what is today known as the county courts ( the modern " counties " were referred to as " Shires " in pre-Norman times ), presided by the diocesan bishop and the sheriff, exercising both ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction.

Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by architectural historian Anthony Emery as " the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship ".

The priory was re-established in Norman times in 1093 as a Benedictine house and continued until its suppression in 1536 under Henry VIII.

In Norman times insanity was not seen as a defence in itself but a special circumstance in which the jury would deliver a guilty verdict and refer the defendant to the King for a pardon

The roof of the nave is from Norman times, as well as the mosaics in the apses.

William granted some lands to his continental followers from the holding or holdings of one or more specific Englishmen ; at other times, William granted a compact grouping of lands previously held by many different Englishmen to one Norman follower, often to allow for the consolidation of lands around a strategically placed castle.

There are two castles that remain in the city: Pepoli Castle, which dates from Saracen times, and the Venus Castle, dating from the Norman period, built on top of the ancient Temple of Venus, where Venus Ericina was worshipped.

* Domesday Book Online Simple to use directory with interactive map of England in Norman times

Many historical structures remain, including a city wall founded in Roman times and rebuilt in the 14th century, the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and a Norman castle, and perhaps the oldest school in England, The King's School.

This points towards an increasing stratification of English society, a development that can be traced from earliest Anglo-Saxon times right up to the Norman Conquest and beyond.

The Parish Church of St Materiana is Anglican and was built in Norman times ( tower late medieval ).

Twice more the Normans fled, these times feigned, and drew the English into pursuing them, allowing the Norman cavalry to attack them repeatedly.

With much of its present architecture dating from Norman times, it became a cathedral in 1877 and is the second longest cathedral in the United Kingdom ( after Winchester ).

Continuous recorded history dates back to Norman times.

A church has stood on this site since at least Norman times and probably much longer.

In Norman times Twickenham was part of the Manor of Isleworth-itself part of the Hundred of Hounslow ( mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 ).

Hereward the Wake ( c. 1035 – 1072 ), known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th-century leader of local resistance to the Norman conquest of England.

By early 1995, Norman had been hospitalized thirteen times.

His mother was Lady Anne Grey, fourth daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and his father was Lord Charles Cavendish, third son of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire. The family traces its lineage across eight centuries to Norman times and was closely connected to many aristocratic families of Great Britain.

Earl of Albemarle is a title created several times from Norman times onwards.

A wooden motte and bailey castle was built in Kimbolton, on a different site, in Norman times.

It is the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a number of times.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

Critics such as Norman Lebrecht were vocal in their diagnosis of the problem as the " jet set conductor " ( whose salaries were presumably bleeding the orchestras dry ); and several high-profile conductors have taken pay cuts in recent years ; but the amounts of revenue involved are too small to account for the crisis.

Poultry comes from the French / Norman word poule, itself derived from the Latin word pullus, which means small animal.

The Normans did in fact invade Ireland, beginning with a small landing of Norman knights in 1169, followed by Henry's landing with a much larger force in 1171.

Around 1952 Norman MacLeod at his company the Explosive Research Corporation began working on the concept of a small directional mine for use by infantry.

A group of Norman Huguenots under the leadership of Jean Ribault in 1562 established the small colony of Fort Caroline in 1564, on the banks of the St. Johns River, in what is today Jacksonville, Florida.

In 1989 Norman began a distribution arrangement for Europe with Spark Music, a small Dutch indie label ," that was owned by GMI Partners, which was headed by Hans Groeneveld, that would last until 1998.

of the January 1994 Northridge earthquake, which damaged his Los Angeles apartment, Norman moved into a small room in his parents ' house in Salem, Oregon so that he could help take care of his father who had developed Alzheimer's disease, and who would eventually require admission to an adult care facility.

Norman had a defibrillator implant inserted in his chest, which enabled him to perform occasional small concerts.

Smallville is usually portrayed as an idyllic, small isolated American town, with an atmosphere resembling the settings of the paintings of Norman Rockwell.

Since " Life " wanted a perfect Saturday night, and one they considered typical, the photographer did not select a town still blighted by the Depression ... What " Life's "' readers wanted, it seemed, was a stereotyped village that confirmed their nostalgic beliefs about small towns in which no one is bored, poor, or lonely ; and the magazine's photographers and editors-like Norman Rockwell in his " Saturday Evening Post " covers-gave them exactly that kind of town.

It is renowned for its small but outstanding Norman ( Romanesque ) church, SS Mary and David's, but also has the earthworks of a Norman motte and bailey castle, no longer standing.

The population of Framlingham in Suffolk rose sharply after the Norman invasion of England as the village turned into a small town of at least 600 inhabitants, surrounded by valuable lands in one of the most prosperous parts of the country.

There were, however, a small number of castles which were built in England during the 1050s, probably by Norman knights in the service of Edward the Confessor.

He eventually leased the property to Norman Kaufman, who ran a small collection of fairground amusements on a corner of the site, calling his amusement park Steeplechase Park.

There was also the fiery Bohemond, a Norman knight who had formed a small kingdom in southern Italy, and a fourth group under Robert of Flanders.

Over the next four centuries, Norman lords established mostly small marcher lordships between the Dee and Severn, and further west.

Norman was a small community located half-way between the village of Keewatin and Rat Portage.

Burhou, like many other Channel Islands ( e. g. Lihou, Jethou ), has the Norman suffix-hou, meaning a small island, from the Old Norse holmr.

The region includes three departments, Calvados, Manche and Orne, that cover the part of Normandy traditionally termed " Lower Normandy " lying west of the Dives River, the Pays d ' Auge ( except a small part remaining in Upper Normandy ), a small part of the Pays d ' Ouche ( the main part remaining in Upper Normandy ), the Norman Perche and part of the " French " Perche.

For this reason his work on the communes has not become so out of date as his Norman Conquest ; but he was too apt to generalize from the facts furnished by a few striking cases which occurred in a small portion of France, and helped to spread among the public, and even among professional historians, mistaken ideas concerning one of the most complex problems relating to the social origins of France.

The English visitor noted the small, sturdy Norman horses " running away with our cumbrous machine, at the rate of six or seven miles an hour.