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 ...

After the death of English King, Edward the Confessor, Harold Godwinson was crowned king on 6 January 1066. He was a powerful earl and member of a prominent Anglo-Saxon dynasty. Image caption ...

The tale begins in 1064, with Edward the Confessor, the dying king of England, instructing his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson to travel ... Upon Edward’s death in early 1066, Harold crowned ...

Having been made king following Edward the Confessor's death in 1066, Harold Godwinson was waiting for an invasion in the south, from Normandy. When no invasion arrived he disbanded his army and ...