The fact that the narrative extensively covers Harold's activities in Normandy ( in 1064 ) indicates that the intention was to show a strong relationship between that expedition and the Norman Conquest starting two years later.

The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( 1812 – 1818 ), and was described by the historian and critic Lord Macaulay as " a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection ".

# Vallée d ' Obermann ( Obermann's Valley )-The captions include one from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (" Could I embody and unbosom now / That which is most within me ,-- could I wreak / My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw / Soul -- heart -- mind -- passions -- feelings -- strong or weak -- / All that I would have sought, and all I seek, / Bear, know, feel -- and yet breathe -- into one word, / And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; / But as it is, I live and die unheard, / With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.

Harold's strong association with Bosham and the recent discovery of a Saxon grave in the church has led some historians to speculate that King Harold was buried here following his death at the Battle of Hastings, rather than Waltham Abbey as is often reported.

" Meanwhile, Harold's mother determines, much against Harold's wishes, to find him a wife to settle down with.

Hoping to force him into respectability, Mrs. Chasen replaces Harold's beloved hearse with a Jaguar ( which he then converts to a miniature hearse ), and sets up several blind dates, or more accurately, " bride interviews " with young women.

From there, he ravaged the interior and waited for Harold's return from the north, refusing to venture far from the sea, his line of communication with Normandy.

English resistance had also begun, with Eadric the Wild attacking Hereford and revolts at Exeter, where Harold's mother Gytha was a focus of resistance.

Edith may have fled abroad ( possibly with Harold's mother, Gytha, or with Harold's daughter, Gytha ).

Harold's son Ulf, along with Morcar and two others, were released from prison by King William as he lay dying in 1087.

Two of Harold's other sons, Godwine and Edmund, invaded England in 1068 and 1069 with the aid of Diarmait mac Mail na mBo.

In October 1065 Harold's brother, Tostig, the earl of Northumbria, was hunting with the king when his thegns in Northumbria rebelled against his rule, which they claimed was oppressive, and killed some 200 of his followers.

" With the north at least on Harold's side, in adherence to the terms of a deal, which Godwin was part of, Emma was settled in Winchester, with Harthacnut's huscarls.

However, the trees are not placed consistently and the greatest scene shift, between Harold's audience with Edward after his return to England and Edward's burial scene, is not marked in any way at all.

A figure is slain with a sword in the subsequent plate and the phrase above the figure refers to Harold's death ( Interfectus est, " he is slain ").

On the accession of Harold Godwinson after the death of Edward the Confessor, Hardraada invaded Northumbria with the support of Harold's brother Tostig Godwinson, and was defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge three weeks before William I's victory at the Battle of Hastings.

In early 1066, Harold's exiled brother Tostig Godwinson raided southeastern England with a fleet he had recruited in Flanders, later joined by other ships from Orkney.

Starting in about 1090, Harold's building was demolished and a new church with crossing tower and transepts was begun in the Norman style.

Harold's links with the area, ( although only his connection with the original foundation can be proven ) persist.

An English expression with a similar meaning is " Roman holiday ", a metaphor taken from the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron, where a gladiator in Ancient Rome expects to be " butcher'd to make a Roman holiday " while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering.

His beautiful great-great-grandmother, Lady Charlotte Harley, was intimately acquainted with Lord Byron, who called her " Ianthe ", so much so that he dedicated his famous poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, to her.

A request to exhume a grave in Bosham church was refused by the Diocese of Chichester in December 2003, the Chancellor having ruled that the chances of establishing the identity of the body as Harold's were too slim to justify disturbing a burial place.

Bosham Church: the lower three storeys of the tower are Saxon, the top storey Norman Harold's daughter Gytha of Wessex married Vladimir Monomakh Grand Duke ( Velikii Kniaz ) of Kievan Rus ' and is ancestress to dynasties of Galicia, Smolensk, and Yaroslavl.

There is some dispute in primary sources ( the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ) about Harold's initial role.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions how Harold's claim that he was the son of Cnut and Ælfgifu is either distrusted or simply denied.

There were legends of Harold's body being given a proper funeral years later in his church of Waltham Holy Cross in Essex, which he had refounded in 1060.

The former Church of Ireland parish church in Harold's Cross has been leased to the Moscow Patriarchate as Ss Peter and Paul Church, for the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 1177, as part of his penance for his part in the murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry II refounded Harold's church as a priory of Augustinian Canons Regular of sixteen canons and a prior.

* St George in the East ( Church of England ) Church – used for exterior shots of the church where Harold's mother goes to a service and where his Rolls Royce is blown up in the churchyard, killing his / his mother's chauffeur.

But Harold's claim was not entirely secure ; there were other claimants to the English throne, perhaps including his exiled brother Tostig.

After the battle, Harold's corpse is said to have been brought back to the abbey and buried there.

With Harold's help, there were even efforts to turn him into a comedy star.

Due to the upgrade of facilities in Harold's Cross, it is highly unlikely that football will be played there again.

The Holy Rood is said to have foretold Harold's defeat at Hastings: on the way there from the Battle of Stamford Bridge he stopped off at Waltham Abbey to pray, and the legend is that the cross " bowed down " off the wall as he did so.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by J. M. W. Turner | Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1823. Childe Harold became a vehicle for Byron's own beliefs and ideas ; indeed in the preface to canto four Byron acknowledges that there is little or no difference between author and protagonist.

They lived there happily, but during the war a German bomb exploded near number 5 Albert Square and killed Harold's bride.

From the summit, which can be accessed by the Drachenfels Railway, there is a magnificent view, celebrated by Lord Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

Though she was not considered Harold's wife by the Church, there is no indication that the children she bore by Harold were treated as illegitimate by the culture at the time.

However, Harold's reasons for travelling to the continent are not clear, and there are other reasonable explanations, not the least of which was a sounding out among continental magnates of a response to his own intention to ascend the English throne at one point, given Edward's advanced age and lack of heir.

The Bayeux Tapestry has been claimed to show Harold's death by an arrow to the eye, but that may be a later reworking of the tapestry to conform to 12th-century stories in which Harold was slain by an arrow wound to the head.

The Bayeux Tapestry has been claimed to show Harold's death by an arrow to the eye, but this may be a later reworking of the tapestry to conform to 12th-century stories that Harold had died from an arrow wound to the head.

For a small town, Lastrup has many businesses, including Tiny's Tavern and Harold's Saloon.

Byron has quoted this letter in his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

Mr. Krupp has a very deep hatred of children, and also tries to protect Jerome Horwitz Elementary from George and Harold's antics.

Harold's Cross has a number of shops and businesses and an active credit union.

Harold finds that his wife Penelope has developed relationships with men very much unlike himself, including a vacuum salesman called Shuttle and a hippie doctor called Dr. Woodly, who later becomes Harold's foe.

Arthur has accidentally killed a friend of his brother Harold's, after an argument about drugs.

Lord Byron in Canto III of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage has these words on the battle: