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Hace 4 días · In the summer of 1052 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn raided the Norman settlements in Herefordshire in retaliation for the displacement of his former ally Sweyn Godwinson. Sweyn Godwinson and his family were forced into exile and replaced by the Norman Ralph the Timid.
Hace 3 días · Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
Hace 4 días · In 1066, following the death of Edward the Confessor, William invaded England, leading an army of Normans to victory over the Anglo-Saxon forces of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest.
Hace 3 días · Note: The unnamed royal predecessor was Harold II Godwinson, in whose reign Tooting was given by Alnod of London. He had bought the land from Waltheof, who acquired it from Sweyn (DB I, f. 32; cf. Harmer, 357, no. 92, where Sweyn, a kinsman of Edward the Confessor, is named as the donor; cf. also VCH Surrey IV, 98; Harvey, WA, 359). 61.
Hace 4 días · CHAPTER XXXIX. SAXON LONDON. A Glance at Saxon London—The Three Component Parts of Saxon London—The First Saxon Bridge over the Thames—Edward the Confessor at Westminister—City Residences of the Saxon Kings—Political Position of London in Early Times—The first recorded Great Fire of London —The Early Commercial Dignity of London—The Kings of Norway and Denmark besiege London in ...
Hace 4 días · However, he was defeated by Harold Godwinson in 1063 and killed by his own men. His territories were again divided into the traditional kingdoms. Introduction; Prehistoric Wales; Wales under the Romans: 48–410; Sub-Roman Wales and the Age of the Saints: 411–700; Early Medieval Wales: 700–1066; Wales and the Normans: 1067–1283
Hace 4 días · Stagesden, Stagsden (xvi–xx cent.). Stagsden has an area of 3,419 acres, of which 1,825¼ are arable land, 1,282½ permanent grass and 153¼ woods and plantations. (fn. 1) The slope of the ground is irregular, but mainly from north-west to south-east; the highest point is 270 ft. above ordnance datum in the north, the lowest 125 ft. The soil ...
