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A Royal Latrine Points Archaeologists To The Last Anglo-Saxon King’s Residence
from his feast at Bosham to his death at Hastings. Harold Godwinson’s reign as the last Anglo-Saxon king of England was as brief as it was dramatic. Crowned in January 1066, he faced immediate ...
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Archaeologists May Have Found an English King’s Long-Lost Castle... Thanks to His Toilet
The brief reign and untimely death of King Harold II is etched into ... hastily selected Edward’s brother-in-law Harold Godwinson to succeed to the throne. King Harold II was coronated on ...
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Claimants to the throne in 1066
Following the death of Edward the Confessor, there were several claimants to the English throne. Harold Godwinson was from Wessex, in England. He was a wealthy nobleman, and it is claimed that ...