In the early 1050s, William was theoretically named as the Heir to the English throne by his childless cousin, Edward the ...

Edward the Confessor was a man of great prayer - rather like a crowned monk. He was hailed throughout his life as a gentle, loyal and devoted king. Edward the Confessor on Henry VII's tomb grille © ...

St. Edward, one of the most venerated English saints, was the son of the Holy Right-Believing Edgar the Peaceful, King of England, and Queen Ethelfleda who died soon after his birth. According to ...

The story. The pictures of the tapestry tell the story of the adventures of Duke Harold Godwinson, brother-in-law of King Edward the Confessor, who was shipwrecked in Ponthieu in 1064.

Edward was the son of Ethelred II and was the penultimate Anglo-Saxon king of England who was known as 'The Confessor' because of his piety. He lived between 1003 and 1066 and was replaced by ...

The flame-haired princess, subject of my new novel, was the eldest daughter of Harold II Godwinson, who had also been King Edward the Confessor’s right-hand-man, and his consort Edith the Fair.

A Voyage of three Ambassadors from England to Constantinople and the East, about the year 1056[2]. [2] Hakluyt, II, 40. Malmsb II. xiii. Upon the holy festival of Easter, King Edward the Confessor ...

St. Edward the Martyr is not to be confused with Edward the Confessor, the half-Norman King of England who ruled from 1042 to 1066, who is venerated only in Roman Catholicism, and whose remains are ...

Edward the Confessor was a man of great prayer - rather like a crowned monk. He was hailed throughout his life as a gentle, loyal and devoted king. Edward the Confessor on Henry VII's tomb grille © ...