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How Did William the Conqueror Survey England? - The Domesday Survey of 1086 | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the winter of 1085, William the Conqueror faced a Danish invasion threat and needed to fund a mercenary army, but he lacked a precise understanding of the resources available in his newly conquered kingdom. The result was the Domesday survey, an administrative undertaking that reduced a complex, conquered countryside to standardized entries of plough teams, manors, and taxable value. This episode examines how the survey worked, from the commissioners who rode out to the shire courts to…
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