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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.
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Tostig and English
But Harold's claim was not entirely secure ; there were other claimants to the English throne, perhaps including his exiled brother Tostig.
On the same day Harald Hardrada of Norway, who also claimed the English crown joined Tostig and invaded, landing his fleet at the mouth of the Tyne.
The English earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria were defeated by the invading forces of Harald Hardrada and Tostig at the Battle of Fulford near York on 20 September.
The English King Harold II, who had been waiting for a Norman invasion, had rushed his army northward to attack an invading Norwegian Viking army under King Harald Hardråda and Tostig Godwinson ( Harold's brother ).
Not long after renouncing his Danish claim, Harald was ( probably ) invited by Tostig Godwinson, brother of the new English king Harold Godwinson, to press his claim to the English throne.
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.
Arriving off the English coast in September he was joined by further forces recruited in Flanders and Scotland by Tostig Godwinson.
King Harold Godwinson raced northward with an English army from London and, on 25 September 1066, surprised Tostig and about 6, 000 of his men, basking in the sun and awaiting supplies.
The Battle of Fulford took place at the place identified by Symeon of Durham as the village of Fulford near York in England, on 20 September 1066, when King Harald III of Norway-also known as Harald Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson, his English ally, fought and defeated the Northern Earls Edwin and Morcar.
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle has a different version of the story, having Tostig land in the Isle of Wight in May 1066, then ravaging the English coast, before arriving at Sandwich, Kent.
According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle ( Manuscripts ' D ' and ' E ') Tostig became Hadrada's vassal, and then with 300 or so longships sailed up the Humber estuary bottling the English fleet in the river Swale and then landed at Riccall on the Ouse on 24th.
Tostig and King
Harold, perhaps to secure the support of Edwin and Morcar in his bid for the throne, supported the rebels, and persuaded King Edward to replace Tostig with Morcar.
King Harold received word of their invasion and marched north, defeating the invaders and killing Tostig and Hardrada on 25 September at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
* 1066: in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the last Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson defeated his brother Tostig Godwinson and Harold III of Norway.
** Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, brother of King Harold
This strengthened his acceptability as Edward's successor, but fatally split his own family, driving Tostig into alliance with King Harald Hardrada (" Hard Ruler ") of Norway.
Tostig Godwinson ( died 25 September 1066 ) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson.
King Edward the Confessor restored them again to the monastery on taking power, however Tostig saw the opportunity to take possession of them once again after Edward's death in 1066 when King Harold seized his brother's estates.
Siward himself died in 1055, and Waltheof being far too young to succeed as Earl of Northumbria, King Edward appointed Tostig Godwinson to the earldom.
He had allied with King Harald of Norway and possibly Duke William of Normandy but history has left us no record of what role Tostig saw for himself if the invasions were successful.
Prior to the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Amounderness was in the possession of Earl Tostig, the brother of King Harold II.
In 1065 Tostig was probably hunting with King Edward when the northerners rebelled and elected Morcar, Harold's brother-in-law, as earl.
Halton was the centre of important Anglo-Saxon manor held by Earl Tostig, the brother of King Harold before the Norman Conquest.
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Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex ( 1029 – 1075 ), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.
Tostig was at odds with his elder brother Harold ( who had been elected king ), having been ousted from his position as Earl of Northumbria and exiled in 1065, and had mounted a series of abortive attacks on England in the spring of 1066.
Tostig was the third son of Godwin ( d. 1053 ), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Sprakaleg.
On screen, Tostig was portrayed by actor Frederick Jaeger in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ), part of the series Theatre 625.
However, any new settlement was soon burned to the ground by a rival band of Vikings under Tosti ( Tostig Godwinson ), Lord of Falsgrave, and Harald III of Norway.
The new settlement was burned to the ground by ( Tostig Godwinson ), Earl of Falsgrave and Lord of the Manor of Hougun.
At the Battle of Stamford Bridge ( 25 September 1066 ) and the Battle of Hastings ( 14 October 1066 ), Edith lost four of her remaining brothers ( Tostig, Harold, Gyrth and Leofwine ).
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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.
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.
Harold's brother Tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of England in May 1066, landing at the Isle of Wight using a fleet supplied by Baldwin of Flanders.
Due to a doubling of taxation by Tostig in 1065 that threatened to plunge England into civil war, Harold supported Northumbrian rebels against his brother, Tostig, and replaced him with Morcar.
He escaped, but when Harold and Tostig attacked again the following year, he retreated and was killed by Welsh enemies.
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.
Threatened by Harold's fleet, Tostig moved north and raided in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, but he was driven back to his ships by the brothers Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria.
Harald's army was further augmented by the forces of Tostig, who threw his support behind the Norwegian king's bid for the throne.
The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six vills or townships as being held by Earl Tostig forming the Manor of Hougun.
After Harold, by then the king's right hand man, had spoken with the rebels at Northampton, he likely realized that Tostig would not be able to retain Northumbria.
Tostig was outlawed a short time later, possibly early in November, because he refused to accept his deposition as commanded by Edward.
The Norwegians and the Flemish mercenaries hired by Tostig were largely without armour and carried only personal weapons.
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