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    Harold Godwinson (c. 1022 – 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king. Harold reigned from 6 January 1066...
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  • Harold (c. 1065 – 1098) was a son of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was driven into exile by the Norman conquest of England, and found refuge at...
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  • Tostig Godwinson (c. 1029 – 25 September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson. After being exiled by his...
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  • or Godwine (fl. 1066 – 1069) was a son, probably the eldest son, of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was driven into exile in Dublin, along with two...
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    Denmark, the former Earl of Northumbria, Tostig Godwinson, brother of English king Harold Godwinson, pledged his allegiance to Harald, inviting him to...
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    leading an army of Normans to victory over the Anglo-Saxon forces of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts...
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    (Latin: Harold, who was king of the English People). Harold Harefoot is the most likely father as the only other king Harold was Harold Godwinson, who would...
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    of roles, both military and administrative, and they fought under Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings. Housecarl is a calque of the original Old...
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  • swallowed the crust, but it stuck in his throat and killed him. His son Harold (Godwinson) succeeded him as Earl of Wessex, that is, overlord of roughly the...
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  • Ulf or Wulf (fl. 1067 – 1087) was a son of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was captured during the course of the Norman conquest of England, and...
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    Harald Hardrada of Norway invaded with Tostig Godwinson, the exiled brother of Harold Godwinson. Harold defeated Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge...
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    Edward died in January 1066 and was succeeded by his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson. The Norwegian king Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in September...
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    Battle of Hastings (category Harold Godwinson)
    Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England. It took place approximately...
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  • was likely spelt) ᚪᛖᛞᛘᚩᚾᛞ or Ædmund (fl. 1068 – 1069) was a son of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was driven into exile in Dublin by the Norman...
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    that the chances of establishing the identity of the body as that of Harold Godwinson were too slim to justify disturbing a burial place. The Domesday Book...
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  • She was the wife of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and the mother of King Harold Godwinson and Edith of Wessex, the latter of whom was the queen consort of King...
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  • Magnus (fl. 1068) was a son of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was, in all likelihood, driven into exile in Dublin by the Norman conquest of England...
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    fifty years before the Norman Conquest. Its most famous member was Harold Godwinson, King of England for nine months in 1066. The founder of the family's...
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    Godwinson (Old English: Gyrð Godƿinson; c. 1032 – 14 October 1066) was the fourth son of Earl Godwin, and thus a younger brother of Harold Godwinson....
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    Battle of Stamford Bridge (category Harold Godwinson)
    army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson. After a bloody...
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    Leofwine Godwinson (c. 1035 – 14 October 1066) was a younger brother of King Harold Godwinson, the fifth son of Earl Godwin. When the Godwin family was...
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    Harold, Scandinavian chieftain in Normandy Harold Harefoot, or Harold I (c. 1015–1040), King of England from 1035 to 1040 Harold Godwinson, or Harold...
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    seized Harold and led him to Beaurain and held him there"). Duke William demanded the release of the earl, and Count Guy delivered Harold Godwinson up after...
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    When Edward died in 1066, he was succeeded by his wife's brother Harold Godwinson, who was defeated and killed in the same year at the Battle of Hastings...
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    several rival claimants to the English throne emerged. Among them were Harold Godwinson (recognised as king by the Witenagemot after the death of Edward the...
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    and became King of England in 1040 after the death of his half-brother Harold Harefoot, king of England. Harthacnut himself died suddenly in 1042 and...
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  • One of several Daughters of King Harold Godwinson Gunhild of Wessex One of several Daughters of King Harold Godwinson King William I the Conqueror c. 1028–1087...
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  • Great Harold Godwinson Edmund, son of Harold Godwinson Godwin, son of Harold Godwinson Harold, son of Harold Godwinson Magnus, son of Harold Godwinson Ulf...
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  • King and Conqueror (category Cultural depictions of Harold Godwinson)
    threat to his throne from an ambitious Norman, William. James Norton as Harold Godwinson Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as William the Conqueror Clémence Poésy as Matilda...
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    and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected...
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