Interestingly, both Harold & Edward the Confessor's family was eventually married back into the English Royal Family- Edward's great grandniece, Edith of Scotland married the son of William the Conqueror, Henry I in around 1100. 200 years later, Isabella of France who was descended from Harold Godwinson via her paternal grandmother, Isabella of Aragon via Harold's daughter, Gytha of Wessex who married a Russian king...
If Harold Godwinson had won the Battle of Hastings he could have been remembered for one of the greatest military achievements in the Early Medieval period.
*The 3 Factions* Harold Godwinson's English Faction Harold Hadrada's Norse Viking Faction William Duke of Normandy's Norman French Faction 5:00 5:14 Harold Hadrada's Claim To The Throne. 7:13 Hadrada thrashes The Earl of Mercia and Northumbria at The Battle of Fulford near York. 8:34 The English split their army, and ended up getting beaten. 8:48 Harold Godwinson died on the Battlefield of The Battle of Hastings. 9:07 Edgar, grandson of Edmund Ironside, was without a fighting force to make his claim for The Throne of England.
Tomorrow is Oct 14th 2023 - in 43yrs it'll be 1000 since his death & i always pull for him in the battle but he ALWAYS falls! I must've fought there....... I'm forever thinking about this fight..... RIP King Harold
The Scandinavians are proud of the fact that William the Conqueror was actually a viking! Normandy takes its name from the Norse Men who settled there. William's grandfather emigrated to Normandy from Scandinavia.
Because so many royal families were intermarried from the early middle ages and slightly before, nearly every Western Europe war from the end of the Viking Age until the prior to the Spanish Civil War of 1936 was in one way or another a family feud.
Deathbed Prophecy Of King Edward The Confessor “Just now two monks stood before me, whom I had once known very well when I was a young man in Normandy, men of great sanctity, and for many years now relieved of earthly cares. And they addressed me with a message from God. ‘Since,’ they said, ‘those who have climbed to the highest offices in the kingdom of England, the earls, the bishops and abbots, and all those in holy orders, are not what they seem to be, but, on the contrary, are servants of the devil, on a year and one day after the day of your death God has delivered all this kingdom, cursed by Him, into the hands of the enemy, and devils shall come through all this land with fire and sword and the havoc of war. ’ Then I said to them, ‘I will show God’s design to the people, and the forgiveness of God shall have mercy upon the penitents. For He had mercy on the people of Nineveh, when they repented on hearing the Divine indignation. ’ But they said, ‘These will not repent, nor will the forgiveness of God come to pass for them.’ ‘And what,’ I asked, ‘shall happen? And when can a remission of this great indignation be hoped for?’ ‘At that time,’ they answered, ‘when a green tree, if cut down in the middle of its trunk, and the part cut off carried the space of three furlongs from the stock, shall be joined again to the trunk, by itself and without the hand of man or any sort of stake, and begin once more to push leaves and bear fruit from the old love of its uniting sap, then first can a remission of these great ills be hoped for'' King Edward died on January 5, 1066. One year and one day after his death, on January 6, 1067, the Roman Catholic William the Conqueror was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey. Then began a terrible campaign of pillage and bloodshed by the Conqueror against the English people, which culminated in the pseudo-council of Winchester in 1070, when papal legates deposed the Orthodox Archbishop Stigand, who had refused to crown William, and placed the Roman Catholic Lanfranc in his place. On October 15, 1072, the last English Orthodox bishop, Ethelric of Durham, after anathematizing the Pope, died in prison at Westminster, and the grace of the priesthood left the English land, in accordance with King Edward’s prophecy. The last part of this prophecy remains to be fulfilled. History of King Edward..... St. Edward The Confessor, King Of England Source: s33939bc9149089cf.jimcontent.com/download/version/1506323274/module/5529994050/name/A%20Deathbed%20Prophecy%20Of%20King%20Edward%20The%20Confessor.pdf
I really like that dust cloud whenever a lot of people are duking it all out.
Interestingly, both Harold & Edward the Confessor's family was eventually married back into the English Royal Family- Edward's great grandniece, Edith of Scotland married the son of William the Conqueror, Henry I in around 1100. 200 years later, Isabella of France who was descended from Harold Godwinson via her paternal grandmother, Isabella of Aragon via Harold's daughter, Gytha of Wessex who married a Russian king...
Emma of Normandy changed the course of the monarchy.
If Harold Godwinson had won the Battle of Hastings he could have been remembered for one of the greatest military achievements in the Early Medieval period.
Loved that you used pictures from the Bayeux Tapestry for Harold, Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror's thumbnails :D
good stuff, keep this up ive binged all the rest
Absolutely loving this series. Thank you for all of the hard work!
*The 3 Factions*
Harold Godwinson's English Faction
Harold Hadrada's Norse Viking Faction
William Duke of Normandy's Norman French Faction
5:00
5:14 Harold Hadrada's Claim To The Throne.
7:13 Hadrada thrashes The Earl of Mercia and Northumbria at The Battle of Fulford near York.
8:34 The English split their army, and ended up getting beaten.
8:48 Harold Godwinson died on the Battlefield of The Battle of Hastings.
9:07 Edgar, grandson of Edmund Ironside, was without a fighting force to make his claim for The Throne of England.
Tomorrow is Oct 14th 2023 - in 43yrs it'll be 1000 since his death & i always pull for him in the battle but he ALWAYS falls! I must've fought there....... I'm forever thinking about this fight..... RIP King Harold
Same here, friend! :D
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The Scandinavians are proud of the fact that William the Conqueror was actually a viking! Normandy takes its name from the Norse Men who settled there. William's grandfather emigrated to Normandy from Scandinavia.
Because so many royal families were intermarried from the early middle ages and slightly before, nearly every Western Europe war from the end of the Viking Age until the prior to the Spanish Civil War of 1936 was in one way or another a family feud.
Deathbed Prophecy Of King Edward The Confessor
“Just now two monks stood before me, whom I had once known very well when I
was a young man in Normandy, men of great sanctity, and for many years now
relieved of earthly cares. And they addressed me with a message from God.
‘Since,’ they said, ‘those who have climbed to the highest offices in the kingdom of
England, the earls, the bishops and abbots, and all those in holy orders,
are not what they seem to be, but, on the contrary, are servants of the devil,
on a year and one day after the day of your death God has delivered all this kingdom,
cursed by Him, into the hands of the enemy,
and devils shall come through all this land with fire and sword and the havoc of war.
’ Then I said to them, ‘I will show God’s design to the people, and the forgiveness of
God shall have mercy upon the penitents. For He had mercy on the people of
Nineveh, when they repented on hearing the Divine indignation.
’ But they said, ‘These will not repent, nor will the forgiveness of God come to pass
for them.’
‘And what,’ I asked, ‘shall happen? And when can a remission of this great
indignation be hoped for?’
‘At that time,’ they answered, ‘when a green tree, if cut down in the middle of its
trunk, and the part cut off carried the space of three furlongs from the stock,
shall be joined again to the trunk, by itself and without the hand of man or any sort of
stake, and begin once more to push leaves and bear fruit from the old love of its
uniting sap, then first can a remission of these great ills be hoped for''
King Edward died on January 5, 1066. One year and one day after his death, on January 6, 1067, the
Roman Catholic William the Conqueror was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey.
Then began a terrible campaign of pillage and bloodshed by the Conqueror against the English
people, which culminated in the pseudo-council of Winchester in 1070, when papal legates deposed
the Orthodox Archbishop Stigand, who had refused to crown William, and placed the Roman Catholic Lanfranc in his place.
On October 15, 1072, the last English Orthodox bishop, Ethelric of Durham, after anathematizing
the Pope, died in prison at Westminster, and the grace of the priesthood left the English land, in
accordance with King Edward’s prophecy. The last part of this prophecy remains to be fulfilled.
History of King Edward.....
St. Edward The Confessor, King Of England
Source:
s33939bc9149089cf.jimcontent.com/download/version/1506323274/module/5529994050/name/A%20Deathbed%20Prophecy%20Of%20King%20Edward%20The%20Confessor.pdf
Possibly died after being Shot in the eye with an arrow. That will do it!😮🏹
I'd bet if Jesus were alive today, he somehow would have become known as his own Grandpa. Worse things have happened I'm sure in history somewhere.