Conquest to Dissolution 1067-1538: A history of eastern Sussex, Battle, Bexhill, Hastings, Pevensey, Robertsbridge, Rye and Winchelsea - a fascinating part of England

In 1066 eastern Sussex was the beachhead for the successful invasion of England by Duke

William II of Normandy. He was crowned William I, King of England, at Christmas 1066

and 1067 was the first year of the Normanisation of England. 1538 saw the dissolution

of the major monasteries and abbeys including those of Battle and Robertsbridge, and the

start of the English Reformation.

How did William and his successors, from the houses of Normandy and Blois, via the

Angevin and Plantagenet kings, throu...