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

Ealdred crowned King William on Christmas Day in 1066.

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.

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.

" 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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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

* Edgar Atheling, uncrowned King of England, 1066, after the Battle of Hastings

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

Harold later succeeded Edward the Confessor and became King of England in his own right in 1066.

The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II.

Following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the earldom of Hereford was given to William fitzOsbern of Breteuil, Normandy, one of King William's closest allies, who was responsible for defending the area against the Welsh.

This defensive role is highlighted by the use of the bridge in 1016 as a defence against King Sweyn and his son King Cnut by Ethelred the Unready and again, in 1066, against King William the Conqueror.

He was proclaimed, but never crowned, King of England in 1066.

When King Edward died in January 1066, Edgar was still in his early teens, too young to be an effective military leader.

His successor, King Harald Hardrada attempted the invasion of England in 1066, but was beaten and killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge, an event which is generally considered the end of the Viking Age.

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 ).

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.

Harald attempted to revive the North Sea domain of Cnut the Great, but having failed to conquer the Danes he died at Stamford Bridge in 1066, during an unsuccessful attempt to conquer England.

Harold's brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada invaded Northumbria in September 1066, and defeated the local forces under Morcar and Edwin at the Battle of Fulford near York.

* Harald III, king of Norway ( d. 1066 )

Magnus I of Norway ( reigned 1035 – 1047 ), who wasn't a warlord, had reigned for more than a decade when his uncle Harald Hardrada ( reigned 1047 – 1066 ) challenged his rule.

1066 Harald Hardrada lands with an army, hoping to take control of York and the English crown.

Harald Sigurdsson ( c. 1015 – 25 September 1066 ), later given the epithet Hardrada ( Old Norse: harðráði, roughly translated as " stern counsel " or " hard ruler ") was the King of Norway from 1046 to 1066 as Harald III.

With a pledge of allegiance from Tostig, Harald arrived in Northern England in September 1066, raiding the coast and winning a great victory over English regional forces at the Battle of Fulford.

The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway ( Old Norse: Haraldr harðráði ) and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.

But when Edward died in January 1066, he was succeeded by his brother-in-law Harold, who not only faced challenges from William but also another claim by the Norwegian king, Harald Hardrada.

* Harald Hårdråde reigned from 1046 to 1066 and was the half brother of Olaf Haraldsson.

Asta later remarried to Sigurd Syr, chieftain of Hole, and had a son born there named Harold ,( Harald Hårdråde ) who later became Harald III Sigurdsson ( king of Norway from 1046 to 1066 ).

He was present at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in England in 1066 where his father, Harald Hardrada, saw defeat and was killed in action.

The serious defeat of Harald Hardrada and the Norwegians had suffered 1066, tempted the Danish king, Svend Estridsen, to prepare for an attack on Norway.

In 1066, King Harald made his ill-fated bid to conquer England.

He was a survivor of Harald Hardraade's defeat at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 and fled from there to Man.

Later on the King of Norway, Harald Hardradi ( died 1066 ) is praised by two Court-Scalds for summoning the leidangr to attack Denmark.

* Harald III of Norway ( born 1015 – died Stamford bridge, England, September 25, 1066 ), also known as Harald Hardråde.

* Harald III of Norway Harald Hardrada ( Harald Hardråde ): 1046 – 1066

* Harald III of Norway Harald Hardrada ( Harald Hardråde ): 1046 – 1066

According to Viking lore, Canute the Great used 1, 400 in Norway in 1028, and William the Conqueror used about 600 for the invasion of Britain in 1066 in the post Viking period.

Magnus II Haraldsson ( 1048 – 1069 ) was King of Norway from 1066 to 1069, jointly with his brother Olaf Kyrre from 1067.

In early September 1066, Hardrada set sail from Norway with 300 ships.

* Harald III of Norway ( 1015 – 1066 )

* Harald III of Norway ( 1015 – 1066 )

His younger half-brother, Harald Sigurdsson, was also present at the battle and would in 1047 go on to become King of Norway, only to die in a failed invasion of England in the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066.

* Magnus II of Norway Magnus Haraldsson: 1066 – 1069

* Olaf III of Norway Olaf the Peaceful ( Olav Kyrre ): 1066 – 1093

* Magnus II of Norway Magnus Haraldsson: 1066 – 1069

* Olaf III of Norway Olaf the Peaceful ( Olav Kyrre ): 1066 – 1093