00:00in the years following ten sixty six norman rule in england was met with fierce resistance especially in the north
00:07the spark of rebellion ignited in derham with the murder of the norman earl robert de carmine an act that
00:14unleashed the full fury of william the conqueror
00:17in rage william led his army north not just to conquer but to annihilate his campaign was a brutal scorched
00:25earth policy under his direct orders soldiers descended upon the countryside burning villages to the ground systematically destroying crops and
00:34slaughtering livestock
00:35the land was left barren its people defenseless the aftermath was a horror of unimaginable scale widespread famine swept across
00:45the devastated landscape the campaign led to the deaths of an estimated one hundred thousand people not by the sword
00:52but by starvation it was a chilling testament to william's ruthlessness the harrying of the north left a permanent scar
01:00the anglo-saxon aristocracy was systematically replaced by loyal norman lords
01:05the doomsday book commissioned by william years later recorded vast areas of the north as desolate empty waste this brutal
01:14act solidify william's absolute control over england crushing the spirit of the north for a generation
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