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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 Battle of Hastings: Sources and Interpretations. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-8511-5619-3. Round, John Horace (2010). Feudal England: Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-1080-1449-6. Searle, Eleanor Tr, ed. (1980). The Chronicle of Battle Abbey. Oxford: OUP.
It depicts the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 during the Norman Conquest of England. The English monarch Harold Godwinson was defeated and killed in the fighting. It shows a famous scene as Edith the Fair , accompanied by some monks , scoured the battlefield for the fallen Harold.
Battle of Hastings: William's forces defeat and kill Harold, probably at Senlac Hill, in East Sussex. [2] Edgar Ætheling proclaimed King by a Witenagemot in London but submits to William some weeks later [1] at Berkhamsted. Late October or early December – Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, submits to William at Wallingford. [4] [5]
The battle began at about 9 am on 14 October 1066 and lasted all day, but while a broad outline is known, the exact events are obscured by contradictory accounts in the sources. [52] Although the numbers on each side were probably about equal, William had both cavalry and infantry, including many archers, while Harold had only foot soldiers and ...
The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of Norman cavalry charging an Anglo-Saxon shield wall during the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Examples of Anglo-Saxon archery equipment are rare. [ 72 ] Iron arrowheads have been discovered in approximately 1% of early Anglo-Saxon graves, and traces of wood from the bow stave are occasionally found in the soil of ...
William had started his conquest of England when he and his army landed in Sussex, defeating and killing English King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, in 1066. William's army had to suppress many rebellions to secure the kingdom. As a result of the unrest, some English nobles had sought sanctuary in Scotland at the court of Malcolm III.
At the Battle of Stamford Bridge (25 September 1066) and the Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066), Edith lost four of her remaining brothers (Tostig, Harold, Gyrth and Leofwine). Her brother Wulfnoth , who had been given to Edward the Confessor as a hostage in 1051 and soon afterwards became a prisoner of William the Conqueror , remained in ...