A Quote by Sabine Baring-Gould

At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

Sabine Baring-Gould

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Sabine Baring-Gould
English - Novelist
January 28, 1834 - January 2, 1924

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