Information about how and why Harold Godwinson was defeated in the struggle for the English throne in[removed]In 1066, the English King Edward the Confessor died. He had no son to follow him as king, so the Witan (council

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• House of Godwin
• English people
• England
• Hastings
• Earls of East Anglia
• Harold Godwinson
• Battle of Hastings
• William the Conqueror
• Senlac Hill
• Norman conquest of England
• Anglo-Saxon England
• Middle Ages