The army took many horses and much armour with them, including a whole timber fortress as a do-it-yourself kit.
We are not told much about the ships in question and it is unlikely that they were all longships. It summarises some agreements that were made between Duke William of Normandy and a number of his mightiest vassals before the invasion of England and explains who were to supply the necessary ships.Īltogether 14 vassals are listed and they are to turn up with a total of 776 vessels. It is very likely that this is a copy of a list that was written in the monastery at Fécamp in Normandy shortly after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. In the so-called Battle manuscript in Oxford there is a document, a few pages in length, that was written down between 11.
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