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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.
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Journeying with him was Tostig, another son of Earl Godwin, who was now earl of Northumbria.
With him was Earl Tostig, who had promised him support.
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.
Tostig went into exile in Flanders, along with his wife Judith, who was the daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders.
But Harold's claim was not entirely secure ; there were other claimants to the English throne, perhaps including his exiled brother Tostig.
When Tostig asked what his brother Harold would be willing to give Harald Hardrada for his trouble, the rider replied that he would be given seven feet of ground as he was taller than other men.
Harald Hardrada was impressed with the rider and asked Tostig his name, Tostig replied that the rider was none other than Harold Godwinson.
Tostig was helped into the earldom of Northumbria, thus controlling the north.
The Mercian earl was sidelined, especially after Harold and Tostig broke the Welsh-Mercian alliance in 1063.
At this point, both Harold's remaining brothers in England were earls in their own right, Harold was himself king and in control of Wessex, and he had married the sister of Earl Edwin of Mercia and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria ( who had succeeded his brother Tostig ).
In 1055 Siward died but his son was considered too young to command Northumbria, and Harold's brother, Tostig was appointed.
He escaped, but when Harold and Tostig attacked again the following year, he retreated and was killed by Welsh enemies.
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.
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.
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.
Arriving off the English coast in September he was joined by further forces recruited in Flanders and Scotland by Tostig Godwinson.
Completely outflanked, Hardrada at this point was killed with an arrow to his wind pipe and Tostig slain, the Norwegian army disintegrated and was virtually annihilated.
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Harold Godwinson defeated and killed Harald III of Norway and Tostig and the Norwegian force 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.
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.
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.
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.
They met Harold at Northampton, and Tostig accused Harold before the king of conspiring with the rebels.
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.
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.
With Hardrada's aid, Tostig sailed up the Humber and defeated Morcar and Edwin at Gate Fulford.
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.
According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Tostig landed on the Isle of Wight in May 1066, before ravaging the south coast of England, and ending up at Sandwich, Kent.
Then as William was not ready to get involved, at that stage, Tostig sailed from the Contentin Peninsula, but because of storms ended up in Norway, and made his pact with Harold Hardrada there.
Tostig died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge and his lands were subsequently taken over by the Normans.
Two of their sons, Harold and Tostig, faced each other at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, where Tostig was killed.
Tostig was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 and so was not able to re-found the monastery as he had intended.
Harald and Tostig were in turn defeated and slain by Harold Godwinson's army, five days later at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ( September 25 ).
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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.
Tostig appears to have received little local support, and further raids into Lincolnshire and near the River Humber met with no more success, so Tostig retreated to Scotland, where he remained for a time.
After defeating Harald Hardrada and Tostig, Harold left much of his army in the north, including Morcar and Edwin, and marched the rest south to deal with the threatened Norman invasion.
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.
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 seems to have been a favourite with the king and queen, who demanded that the revolt be suppressed, but neither Harold nor anyone else would fight to support Tostig.
After a horrific battle, both Hardrada and Tostig along with most of the Norwegians were killed.
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.
Harold, after defeating his brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada in the north, left much of his forces in the north, including Morcar and Edwin, and marched the rest of his army south to deal with the threatened Norman invasion.
Tostig appears to have governed in Northumbria with some difficulty.
Tostig was said to have been heavy handed with those who resisted his rule, including the murder of several members of leading Northumbrian families.
Also, the Vita Edwardi, otherwise sympathetic to Tostig, states that he had ' repressed Northumbrians with the heavy yoke of his rule '.
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