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 © ...

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 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.

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.

The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England Marc Morris. Pegasus, $30 (472p) ISBN 978-1-60598-451-3 ...

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 © ...