this left William no choice but to forcibly claim what he believed to be his right. However, when Edward died in January 1066, Harold Godwinson, the richest earl in the land and the son of a pirate, took the throne. They were led by William 'the Bastard' a formidable, ruthless warrior, who was convinced that his half-Norman cousin, Edward the Confessor, had promised him the throne of England. The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent warriors of the 11th century and based their entire society around conflict.
A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides.ġ066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history.
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