The Normans had Papal support and a ruthless attitude to imposing their rule through the building of motte and bailey castles and a scorched earth policy towards English resistance.
The Anglo-Saxon aristocracy fled or was largely dispossessed not only by Normans but Flemings and Bretons too...
Point of Information...the last pre-Norman King of England, Harold the Second, was Anglo-Danish not Anglo-Saxon.
His mother was a Danish noblewoman called Gytha Thorkelsdottir who had married the Saxon lord Godwin of Wessex.
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