However, Ealdred did not receive the other two dioceses that Lyfing had held, Crediton and Cornwall ; King Edward the Confessor ( reigned 1043 – 1066 ) granted these to Leofric, who combined the two sees at Crediton in 1050.

1057 – 1066.

* 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.

* 1133 – Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus ( b. 1066 )

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

* 1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.

( 2004 ) Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066 – 1284.

( 1976 ) English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 – 1307 ).

( 2004 ) The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066 – 1284.

* 1115 – Godfrey of Amiens ( b. 1066 )

The monastic order in South Wales 1066 – 1349 University of Wales Press.

* 1066 – William the Bastard ( as he was known at the time ) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.

* 1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

A later vita, written by Otloh of St. Emmeram ( 1062 – 1066 ), is based on Willibald's and a number of other vitae as well as the correspondence, and also includes information from local traditions.

* 1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.

( 2004 ) Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066 – 1284.

William I ( Old Norman: Williame I ; circa 1028 – 9 September 1087 ), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes as William the Bastard ( Guillaume le Bâtard ), was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

* December 11 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Fatimid Caliph of Egypt ( b. 1066 )

* February 19 – Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus ( b. 1066 )

Harold Godwinson, or Harold II ; ( c. 1022 – 14 October 1066 ) was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.

* BBC Historic Figures: Harold II ( Godwineson ) ( c. 1020 – 1066 )

* Britannica: Harold II ( c. 1020 – Oct. 14, 1066 )

Edward the Confessor, (; ; 1003 – 05 to 4 or 5 January 1066 ), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.

John of Worcester, a medieval chronicler, stated that Ealdred crowned King Harold II in 1066, although the Norman chroniclers mention Stigand as the officiating prelate.

Indeed it can be argued the country has never been independent since there is an arguable legitimate succession of states, systems and entities from the Norman Conquest, 1066.

Before the Norman conquest in 1066, justice was administered primarily by what is today known as the county courts ( the modern " counties " were referred to as " Shires " in pre-Norman times ), presided by the diocesan bishop and the sheriff, exercising both ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction.

The Old English language, current until approximately sometime after the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, had a dative case ; however, the English case system gradually fell into disuse during the Middle English period, when in pronouns the accusative and dative merged into a single oblique case that was also used for all prepositions.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace Round and Frederic William Maitland, both historians of medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the character of English society before the Norman Conquest in 1066.

* 1066: Successful Norman Invasion of England by William the Conqueror.

On 28 September 1066, William of Normandy invaded England with a force of Normans, in a campaign known as the Norman Conquest.

The European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) prevalent in modern Britain is assumed to have been introduced from the continent after the Norman invasion of 1066.

The start of the Norman Conquest was the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066 ; although the battle itself took place to the north at Senlac Hill, and William had landed on the coast between Hastings and Eastbourne at a site now known as Norman's Bay.

Soon after the Norman Conquest of 1066, the Englisc language ceased being a literary language ( see, e. g., Ormulum ) and was replaced by Anglo-Norman as the written language of England.

For a century and a half following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Normandy and England were linked by Norman and Frankish rulers.

Rollo's descendant William, Duke of Normandy, became king of England in 1066 in the Norman Conquest culminating at the Battle of Hastings, while retaining the fiefdom of Normandy for himself and his descendants.

Old English literature ( or Anglo-Saxon literature ) encompasses literature written in Old English ( also called Anglo-Saxon ) in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period from the 7th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066.

In 1066, he entertained an embassy from the illegitimate Duke of Normandy Guillaume II, Guillaume le Bâtard, ( after his successful invasion of England he came to be known as William the Conqueror ) which had been sent to obtain his blessing for the Norman conquest of England.

Before the Norman invasion in 1066, the parish of Higher Mutley was owned by a man Alwin of Tamerton, and Lower Mutley by another man called Goodwin, but at the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) both were owned by Odo, whose feudal overlord was Juhel of Totnes.

Stephen's new Anglo-Norman kingdom had been shaped by the Norman conquest of England in 1066, followed by the Norman expansion into south Wales over the coming years.

Several generations later, the Norman descendants of these Viking settlers not only identified themselves as French but carried the French language, and their variant of the French culture, into England in 1066.

The period from the earliest recorded raids in the 790s until the Norman conquest of England in 1066 is commonly known as the Viking Age of Scandinavian history.

The Norman assertion of power in England after the successful invasion of 1066 saw the end of the Anglo-Saxon rule in England.