She was buried in Westminster Abbey, on 3 August, in what has been described as a " somewhat hard to find tomb " on the opposite side of Edward the Confessor's shrine and slightly above eye level for a person of average height.

Flanders played a pivotal role in Edward the Confessor's foreign policy.

Godwine was probably a native of Sussex, and by the end of Edward the Confessor's reign a third part of the county was in the hands of his family.

In Edward the Confessor's time the land was part of the estate of Aluric, the King ’ s thane and is only recorded in the Domesday Book as ' Chowdesbury ', a part of the manor of Draiton valued at 100 shillings.

The " Sword of Mercy " or " Edward the Confessor's sword ", is a symbolically broken sword that is part of the traditional English regalia, now included in the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

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

He also was the one bishop that published ecclesiastical legislation during Edward the Confessor's reign, attempting to discipline and reform the clergy.

In 1068, he granted asylum to a group of English exiles fleeing from William of Normandy, among them Agatha, widow of Edward the Confessor's nephew Edward the Exile, and her children: Edgar Ætheling and his sisters Margaret and Cristina.

* February 5 – Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.

It was not completed until around 1090 but was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before the Confessor's death on 5 January 1066.

While Edward the Confessor's great-nephew Edgar Ætheling was also in England, he was deemed too young.

But it did more than this ; by the king's instructions, it endeavoured to make a national valuation list, estimating the annual value of all the land in the country, ( 1 ) at the time of Edward the Confessor's death, ( 2 ) when the new owners received it, ( 3 ) at the time of the survey, and further, it reckoned, by command, the potential value as well.

She was buried in Westminster Abbey, in an unmarked grave to the right of the High Altar, next to the door to the Confessor's Chapel.

However, the avaricious ambitions which had been aroused across north-western Europe by Edward the Confessor's lack of an heir prior to 1057, and by the king's failure thereafter to prepare the way for Edgar to succeed him, removed any prospect of a peaceful hereditary succession.

These include Edward the Confessor's Sapphire, which is set in a Maltese cross at the top of the crown.

Tostig features in the novels The Last English King ( 2000 ), by Julian Rathbone ( where he is depicted as Edward the Confessor's catamite ), Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The King's Shadow, by Elizabeth Alder, The Interim King, by J. Colman McMillan, Warriors of the Dragon Gold, by Ray Bryant, and God's Concubine book 2 of The Troy Game series by Sara Douglass, The Bastard King by Jean Plaidy.

In Odda's life-time, the total landed assets of Pershore grew to 300 hides, but after the loss of its benefactor in 1056, about two thirds were seized and given to Edward the Confessor's new foundation at Westminster.

Shortly after Edward the Confessor's coronation on 3 April 1043, Stigand was appointed to the see of Elmham, probably on Emma's advice.

Stigand did support Harold, and was present at Edward the Confessor's deathbed.

Robert probably influenced Edward the Confessor's rebuilding of the church at Westminster Abbey, the first known building in the Romanesque style in England, which is so described by William of Malmesbury.

One famous story about the ordeal of ploughshares concerned Edward the Confessor's mother, Emma of Normandy.

This manor was owned in Edward the Confessor's time by Edwin, Earl of Mercia.

The day after her arrival the Emperor Jagang assaults the Confessor's Palace but is bloodily repulsed.

On 13 October 1269 Giffard officiated at the translation of Edward the Confessor's relics.

With the shrine dismantled and the priory destroyed, the site was sold by order of Henry VIII to Thomas Sidney for 90 pounds and a private mansion was subsequently erected on the spot.

A shrine was first built over their tombs, and subsequently the al-Kadhimiya Mosque.

After taking his mahasamadhi in 1961, Nityananda's Ganeshpuri ashram was converted into a samadhi shrine and has subsequently become a renowned temple and pilgrimage site.

In 1979 Pope John Paul II officially approved the title of Our Lady of Europe as Patroness of Gibraltar, and subsequently, the shrine was restored.

The purpose of the devotees of Carmen was devoted to the task of expanding the faith of the Virgin Mary and seek alms to build a shrine which was subsequently lifted slowly on land that donated Doña Felipa Chirinos.

The dedicatory artefacts kept in the shrine were subsequently buried together on the edge of the midden, perhaps intended for temporary safe-keeping, in the late 3rd or 4th century CE.

The storm calmed and on his return to England, Cnut visited Wilton to give thanks for his rescue, " with solemn gifts, and published this great miracle with prolific testimony ", subsequently ordering a golden shrine to Edith to be erected at the abbey.

Stones played an important part in the cult of the god, especially in the oracular shrine of Delphi ( Omphalos ).

Since an actual Taiko ensemble had never really performed together and the people he had playing with him were in no way professional musicians, he based the rhythms of their performance on the simplistic arrangement of the shrine music that had been previously played ; which allowed for nearly any person with the interest in Taiko could play along.

On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?

The foliada is a joyful 3 / 4 jota-type song, often played at romarías ( community gatherings at a local shrine ).

The movie stars Mr. T. One of the characters, Tyrone played by Charlie Barnett, is an obsessed Cara fan who decorated his Checker Cab as a shrine to her.

The foliada is a joyful 3 / 4 jota-type song, often played at romerías ( community gatherings at a local shrine ).

" The Spirit of Highbury " – a shrine depicting every player to have played for Arsenal during its 93 year residence – was erected in late 2009 outside the stadium at the south end.

It is played only at certain very rare concerts, such as the Munmyo jeryeak ( Sacrifice to Confucius ) held each spring and autumn at the Munmyo shrine in Seoul.

A religious celebration is held inside the shrine and ancient music is played.

This cult attracted such throngs of pilgrims that the earlier shrine was rebuilt as the great Basilica from the mid-13th century, one of the finest Gothic churches in the south of France.

Fridell argues that scholars call the period 1868-1945 the " State Shinto period " because, " during these decades, Shinto elements came under a great deal of overt state influence and control as the Japanese government systematically utilized shrine worship as a major force for mobilizing imperial loyalties on behalf of modern nation-building.

Within these grandiloquent lives are tales and anecdotes which tie miracles, saints and their relics to a great diversity of local areas, furnishing his audience with greater knowledge of their local shrine, and providing them with evidence of the work of God in their immediate vicinity, thus greatly expanding their connection with and understanding of their faith.

The recovered Virgin then miraculously helped to expel the Moors from Spain, and her small shrine evolved into the great Guadalupe monastery.

When the miscreants were found out and executed, and a shrine erected to Zeus Ikmaios, the great god was propitiated and decreed that henceforth the Etesian wind should blow and cool all the Aegean for forty days from the baleful rising of Sirius.

The mysteries of Samothrace did not publish the names of their gods ; and the offerings at the shrine are all inscribed to the gods or to the great gods rather than with their names.

In one of these earlier strata, of very great antiquity, there was discovered, in connection with the shrine, a conduit built of bricks in the form of an arch.

During the 21st dynasty, a shrine of the great god Amun was built by Siamun to the south of the temple of Ptah.

A stone wall, carven with figures, runs round it ; within is a grove of very tall trees growing round a great shrine, wherein is the image of the goddess ; the temple is a square, each side measuring a furlong.

The great religious leader Ramanujacharya visited this shrine on a pilgrimage and systematised the process of worship in accordance with the SriVaishnava that continues to date.

* Furthermore, since your city is regarded with affection by the adherents of three of the great religions of mankind and its soil has been consecrated by the prayers and pilgrimages of multitudes of devout people of these three religions for many centuries, therefore, do I make it known to you that every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer of whatsoever form of the three religions will be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of those to whose faith they are sacred.

Adorned with the figures of Christ, Mary, Charlemagne, Pope Leo III and the Twelve Apostles, the shrine contains the four great Aachen relics: St. Mary's cloak, Christ's swaddling clothes, St. John the Baptist's beheading cloth and Christ's loincloth.

The Bayon was the last state temple to be built at Angkor, and the only Angkorian state temple to be built primarily as a Mahayana Buddhist shrine dedicated to the Buddha, though a great number of minor and local deities were also encompassed as representatives of the various districts and cities of the realm.

The tree, fondly referred to as Ōkusu ( 大楠, great camphor ) by locals, is located on the grounds of Hachiman Jinja, a shinto shrine.

It became the site of the high shrine of Anglo Saxon Northumbria, a great temple of Woden, the father of the gods.

The shrine is dedicated to the three daughters of Susano-o no Mikoto, Shinto deity of seas and storms and brother of the great sun deity, Amaterasu ( tutelary deity of the Imperial Household ).

Hither will come our countrymen in hours of depression, and even of failure, and take new courage from this shrine of great deeds.

It is said that Data Ganj Bakhsh, considered a great Sufi saint of the subcontinent, was himself a devotee of the Bibi Pak Daman shrine.

He wrote that the shrine would be a " monument of love and gratitude, a great hymn in stone as perfect as the art of man can make it and as holy as the intentions of its builders could wish it to be.

The general form of the shrine is Gothic, 1 but the details are those of the 16th-century Italian Renaissance treated 1 This great work is really a canopied pedestal to support and enclose the shrine, not the shrine itself, which is a work of the 14th century, having the gabled form commonly used in the Middle Ages for metal reliquaries with much freedom and originality.

The Nicholas shrine in Bari was one of medieval Europe's great pilgrimage centers and Nicholas became known as " Saint in Bari.

The shrine is dedicated to the three daughters of Susano-o no Mikoto, kami of seas and storms and brother of the great sun kami.