2-649-830 - Historic England/Heritage Images

Saxons and Normans, c11th century, (c1990-2010). Battle Abbey, East Sussex. Reconstruction drawing of Edith Swan Neck, a Saxon theign and a Norman knight. The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled as William the Conqueror.