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.

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.

* 1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.

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.

* 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.

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.

* DeVries, Kelly, The Norwegian Invasion of England in 1066 ( 2003 ).

* DeVries, Kelly, The Norwegian Invasion of England in 1066 ( 2003 ).

Following the Norman conquest of England William I awarded land which later became known as Drayton Beauchamp to Robert, Earl of Morton who as Magno le Breton had accompanied William at the time of the Norman Invasion in 1066.

From the 790s until the Norman Invasion in 1066, the Milford Haven estuary was used occasionally by Vikings looking for shelter.

* The Invasion Fleet of William the Conqueror assembled in the Bay of the Somme at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, in 1066.

The Olivers were probably part of William the Conqueror's Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066.

Following the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror gave the manor of Stoke Gifford to Osbern Giffard, one of his generals.

A settlement first appeared on the west side of present day Kendal not long after the 1066 Norman Invasion when a Motte and Bailey fortification was built, this became known as Kirkbie Strickland ( Kirkbie meaning church ).

The family legend states that he accompanied William the Conqueror to Britain during the Norman Invasion, and fought alongside him at the Battle of Hastings ( 14 October 1066 ).

The first church on the site was built in Anglo-Saxon times and fell into ruin during the Norman Invasion in 1066.

Some sources state that following King Edward the Confessor's death in 1066, it was Ealdred who crowned Harold Godwinson as King of England.

Category: Monarchs of England before 1066

There was no set title for the king of England before 1066 and monarchs chose to style themselves as they pleased.

Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, sided with William the Conqueror, and after 1066 was rewarded with many estates, as well as being made hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, one of the six Great Officers of State.

Round argued that the Normans had brought feudalism with them to England, while Maitland contended that its fundamentals were already in place in Britain before 1066.

In 1066, the Normans invaded and conquered England.

In September 1066, Harald III of Norway landed in Northern England with a force of around 15, 000 men and 300 longships ( 50 men in each boat ).

The saga of Harold Hardrada narrates his expedition to the East, his brilliant exploits in Constantinople, Syria, and Sicily, his skaldic accomplishments, and his battles in England against Harold Godwinson, the son of Earl Godwin, where he fell at Stamford Bridge in 1066 only a few days before Harold himself fell at the battle of Hastings.

" 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.

In 1066, King Harald Hardråde of Norway invaded England, only to be defeated by Harold Godwinson, who in turn was defeated by William of Normandy, descendant of the Viking Rollo, who had accepted Normandy as a fief from the Frankish King.

Although he had given sanctuary to Tostig Godwinson when the Northumbrians drove him out, Malcolm was not directly involved in the ill-fated invasion of England by Harald Hardraade and Tostig in 1066, which ended in defeat and death at the battle of Stamford Bridge.