and his army killing Harold Godwinson, or Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, at the Battle of Hastings. While the embroidery’s portrayal of Harold pulling an arrow out of his eye may be ...

A bitter struggle for the English throne and a fatal arrow to the eye. The events of the Battle ... Edward the Confessor, Harold Godwinson was crowned king on 6 January 1066.

The king’s counsel, known then as the witenagemot, hastily selected Edward’s brother-in-law Harold Godwinson to succeed ... which is protruding from his eye. While modern medicine has been ...

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who was just two years away from a painful death following an arrow to the eye. Now the famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King Harold was brutally killed at ...