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Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings is an 1827 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [1] It depicts the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 during the Norman Conquest of England, where the English monarch Harold Godwinson was defeated and killed in the fighting.
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Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 [1] until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the decisive battle of the Norman Conquest. Harold's death marked the end of Anglo-Saxon rule over England. He was succeeded by William the Conqueror. Harold Godwinson was a member of a prominent Anglo-Saxon family with ties to Cnut the Great.
A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo rallying Duke William's army during the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Bayeux Tapestry [a] is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 feet) long and 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall [1] that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William, Duke of Normandy challenging Harold II, King of England ...
Battle of Hastings Part of the Norman Conquest Harold Rex Interfectus Est: "King Harold is killed". Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Battle of Hastings and the death of Harold. Date 14 October 1066 Location Hailesaltede, near Hastings, Sussex, England (today Battle, East Sussex, United Kingdom) Result Norman victory Belligerents Duchy of Normandy Kingdom of England Commanders and ...
The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry and describe scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These depict events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.
"Harold" the movie replaces wide eyes with audience-tested conceits, starting with the fact that someone thought Zachary Levi’s performance as a kid-inside-an-adult-superhero’s-body in the ...
The 1851 poem "The Swan-Neck", by Charles Kingsley is about Harold and his wife Edith. [6] Several novels were published in the Victorian era about Harold Godwinson. These included Harold, the Last of the Saxons (1848) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, [7] Wulf the Saxon: a story of the Norman Conquest (1895) by G. A. Henty, [8] The Andreds-weald; or The House of Michelham: a Tale of the Norman ...