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3 giorni fa · Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria and Harold's brother, brought a force into North Wales aiming to conquer Ynys Môn, while Harold assembled a light infantry at Bristol, where they boarded ships sailing for North Wales.
4 giorni fa · Son of King Cnut the Great king of Denmark, Norway, and England, and his first wife Queen Ælfgifu of Northampton, King Harold I Harefoot c. 1015 –1040 King of the English r. 1035/1037–1040: Edmund Ætheling c. 1015/1017 – before 1054 Son of King Edmund Ironside: Edward the Exile 1016–1057 Son of King Edmund Ironside: Agatha, wife of ...
2 giorni fa · e. James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970 and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, and ...
2 giorni fa · He died soon after 1042; his son Athelstan forfeited his Waltham lands to Edward the Confessor, who granted them to Harold son of Godwin. (fn. 83) When Harold converted the church into a college of secular canons in 1060 he endowed it with 3 hides in Northland in Waltham.
3 giorni fa · Harold Wilson occupies a strange place in the pantheon of 20th–century prime ministers. Statistically he is one of the greats: he won four out of the five elections he contested; his eight years in Number 10 are beaten only by Churchill and Thatcher in the 20th century; he was the first politician since Gladstone to be Prime Minister four times, and the only post-war PM other than Churchill ...
5 giorni fa · Following the death of the English King in January 1066, Harold Godwinson the Earl of Wessex, was crowned King. What relation was Harold to the previous king? Answer: brother in law
5 giorni fa · Harold's mother, Gytha, was Canute's kinswoman. Through his mother, Harold was linked by blood to the Scandinavian royal families. Harold came from a large family, and is normally described as the second son. The known Godwin children are: Sweyn, Harold, Edith, Tostig, Gyrth, Leofwine, Gunhild, Gytha, Aelfgiva, and Wulfnoth.
