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

Later in 1051, when he was sent to intercept Harold Godwinson and his brothers as they fled England after their father's outlawing, Ealdred " could not, or would not " capture the brothers.

Harold Godwinson became king, in all likelihood appointed by Edward the Confessor on his deathbed and endorsed by the Witan.

By far the strongest hereditary claim was that of Edgar the Ætheling, but his youth and apparent lack of powerful supporters caused him to be passed over, and he did not play a major part in the struggles of 1066, though he was made king for a short time by the Witan after the death of Harold Godwinson.

Harold Godwinson defeated and killed Harald III of Norway and Tostig and the Norwegian force at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

William defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army ; thus opening England to the Norman conquest.

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.

Cedric had planned to marry her to the powerful Lord Aethelstane, pretender to the Crown of England through his descent from the last Saxon King, Harold Godwinson, thus cementing a Saxon political alliance between two rivals for the same claim.

* 1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.

A Norman knight slaying Harold Godwinson ( Bayeux tapestry, ca.

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.

The end of the Viking Age is traditionally marked in England by the failed invasion attempted by the Norwegian king Harald III ( Haraldr Harðráði ), who was defeated by Saxon King Harold Godwinson in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by Strongbow and his Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171 ; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III.

Likewise, King Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, had Danish ancestors.

There were other potential claimants, including the powerful English earl Harold Godwinson, who was named the next king by Edward on the latter's deathbed in January 1066.

The last claimant was William of Normandy, against whose anticipated invasion King Harold Godwinson made most of his preparations.

According to the Norman writer William of Jumieges, William had meanwhile sent an embassy to King Harold Godwinson, reminding Harold of his oath to support William's claim, although whether this embassy actually occurred is unclear.

* 1066: in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the last Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson defeated his brother Tostig Godwinson and Harold III of Norway.

* 1066: Edward the Confessor dies ; Harold Godwinson is killed in the Battle of Hastings, while the Norman Bastard is crowned William I of England.

* Harold Godwinson, King of England

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.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

The last time a British monarch unilaterally selected the British prime minister was in 1963, when Queen Elizabeth II appointed Alec Douglas-Home on the advice of outgoing prime minister Harold Macmillan.

William of Normandy, Harald III of Norway ( aided by Harold Godwin's estranged brother Tostig ) and Sweyn II of Denmark all asserted claims to the throne.

In 1943, Friedman joined the Division of War Research at Columbia University ( headed by W. Allen Wallis and Harold Hotelling ), where he spent the rest of World War II working as a mathematical statistician, focusing on problems of weapons design.

* 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.

Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.

Richard died during the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English king to die in battle ( and the only English king to do so on English soil since Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ).

Sudanese Colonel Harold Saleh Al-Malik selected 250 combat-seasoned soldiers who had seen action in World War II.

The Húscarls, the elite guard of King Cnut ( and later King Harold II ) were armed with two-handed axes which could split shields or metal helmets with ease.

Cnut the Great, who conquered England in 1016, created the wealthy and powerful earldom of Wessex, but in 1066 Harold II reunited the earldom with the crown and Wessex then ceased to be a political unit.

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts a fallen golden dragon, as well as a red / golden / white dragon at the death of King Harold II, who was previously Earl of Wessex.

The chronicler also claimed that the duke secured the support of Emperor Henry IV and King Sweyn II of Denmark, but as Henry was still a minor and Sweyn was more likely to support Harold, who could then help Sweyn against the Norwegian king, these claims should be treated with caution.

# Adeliza ( or Adelida, Adelaide ) died before 1113, reportedly betrothed to Harold II of England, probably a nun of St Léger at Préaux.

** January 8 – Harold II is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

** January – Harold II marries Edith, daughter of Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia, and widow of Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

** September 25 – Battle of Stamford Bridge: King Harold II of England defeats the Vikings under Harald Hardrada.

** October 14 – Battle of Hastings, fought between King Harold II of England and Duke William of Normandy: Harold is killed and William is victorious.

** King Harold II of England,

The best-known examples of the questionable advice given by the English witenagemot are when on January 5, 1066 it approved the succession to the kingship of Harold Godwinson ( Harold Godwin ) following the death of Edward the Confessor, and 50 years earlier, in 1016, it had approved the splitting of the kingdom between the Saxon Edmund II and the Danish king Canute.

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

File: Harold dead bayeux tapestry. png | Three soldiers on the Bayeux Tapestry ( 11th. c ) bearing pre-heraldic shields.

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

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

# Harold II of England ( c. 1022-14 October 1066 )

Harold Harefoot or Harold I ( c. 1015 – 17 March 1040 ) was King of England from 1035 to 1040.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Abelle, Victor: " Pierrot and Pierrette " ( 1906 ; piano ); Foote, Arthur: " Pierrot " and " Pierrette ", from Five Bagatelles ( c. 1894 ; piano ); Hoiby, Lee: " Pierrot " ( 1950 ; # 2 of Night Songs for voice and piano ; text by Adelaide Crapsey above under # Poetry | Poetry ); Neidlinger, William Harold: Piano Sketches ( 1905 ; # 5: " Pierrot "; # 7: " Columbine "); Oehmler, Leo: " Pierrot and Pierrette – Petite Gavotte " ( 1905 ; violin and piano ).

* Harold II of England ( c. 1022 – 1066 ), a. k. a. Harold Godwinson

Ælfgifu of Northampton ( c. 990 – after 1040 ) was the first wife of King Cnut of England and Denmark, and mother of King Harold I of England ( 1035 – 40 ).

* Harold: 812 – 815, died c. 863 in exile

* Harold Godwinson ( c. 1022 – 1066 ) also Earl of East Anglia ; ascended to the throne of King of England in January 1066

* Harold Harefoot ( c. 1015 – 1040 )

* Harold Godwinson ( c. 1022 – 1066 )

* Harold Harefoot, or Harold I ( c. 1015 – 1040 ), King of England from 1035 to 1040

* Harold I of England ( c. 1015 – 1040 ), a. k. a. Harold Harefoot

* George Grey, Earl of Harold ( c. 1732-1733 )

My friend Harold Parker by James Quinn ( artist ) | James Quinn, c. 1907.

# Harold II of England, ( c. 1022-October 14, 1066 )