Edith the Fair
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Edith the Fair, also known as Edith Swanneck, was one of the wealthiest magnates in England on the eve of the Norman Conquest and may also have been the first wife of King Harold Godwinson. "Swanneck"
Edith identifies Harold's body (from François Guizot's History of France)
Battle of Hastings
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The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman
Edith the Fair
…common-law marriage with Edith the Fair. According to folklore, Edith identified Harold's mutilated body after his loss to William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. Despite pleas by Harold's mother, Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, for William to surrender Harold's body for burial, the Norman army refused even though Gytha…
Harold rex interfectus est: "King Harold is killed". Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Battle of Hastings and the death of Harold.
The location of the Battle of Stamford Bridge
On landing at Pevensey, William established a castle within the ruins of the Roman fort. While the outermost walls date from the Roman period, the surviving buildings of the inner bailey post-date William.
Norman knights and archers at the Battle of Hastings, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry