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After William the conqueror took the England, the new era of the Normans had started. William’s wife Matilda, as the Queen had helped him enormously. What are the differences in the Anglo-Saxon women? Are there any commons? This article is mainly a comparison between Anglo-Saxon women and early Norman women. To compare the two kinds of women who were living in the same ground at different times, it is expected to know the variation of the roles of the female characters and the transformation of the English society. The methods are reading the relevant materials and comparing the function of the women from the two eras. Through this way, the common and difference of women from the two dynasties are expected to be found and well discussed. Education of women in middle ages was also well-discussed in this article. Marriages in Medieval Times Before the conquest happed in 1066, in order to obtain a stable position or higher ranking, aristocratic males from Anglo-Saxon society tended to marry women from glorious family who can bring them either wealth or strong power. Marriage is a quite paramount modality of circulating and transferring power within the noble families 1 . In this way, women who brought dowry from one family were the subject of those ambitious males who would like to utilize them for fulfilling their targets. William the conqueror was originally a duke of Normandy, after marrying Matilda, a woman from an honorable family; William’s status had enhanced dramatically and helped him be closer to the throne. In William Rufus’ time, some men from lower class were keen to marry a rich and noble widow to improve their prestige. Although being engaged to men who were inferior to them by the king summoned complain from the dowagers, their marriage indeed changed the status of the men. In the relationship between the King and the Queen, it would be more complicated. It seems that due to the preferred advantage of male in the process of inheritance, female inheritors for instance the Queens were like to be dominated by males and when the country was governing by the royal couple, the Kings were able to enforce not only his own but also the power brought from the Queens. Sometimes the Queens were not from the country in which the king was in; therefore the foreign Queens were likely to invite resentment from the country. A common method of solving this problem was to let the potential future Queen to the country she will marry whose king and this way led the Queen in a dilemma that she was neither familiar to her own country nor family nor to the country she lived in. The Queens might not that welcome in her husband’s country but what all the Queen would do was to try their best to provide their children with protection and planned for them 2 . Emma of the Normandy was a famous foreign Queen who played an important role in late Anglo-Saxon England. She had three children, Edward the Confessor, Alfred and a daughter. Emma was not the only wife Æthelred had, because of which after King Æthelred died, the son of his first wife Edmund took the throne and led Emma spent a difficult time from her husband’s death until she married her second husband. During her first wife, it is said that she was dominated by husband and weighed her importance on all her children. After Æthelred’s death, Emma wanted to name her own son Edward as Æthelred’s successor but objected so that she could only ask her young son to flee England. When the second husband died, Emma’s two sons Edward and Harthacnut were governing the country together, with Emma be the role to balance them 3 . On one hand she was mother of both two Kings, on the other hand she attempted to maintain the order of the whole country so that she can protect all her offspring.

Compare and Contrast the Queen of Late Anglo-Saxon England and Early Norman England