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Who was William the Conqueror fighting against in the year 1066, was it Harold 11th?No, William the Conqueror fought against Harold Godwinson, the king of the time. William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought on the 14th October 1066. They fought to decide who shall be king of England
Harold Godwinson is better known as King Harold II, and was the last Anglo-Saxon English King. He succeeded Edward the Confessor as King of England on 6th January 1066, and reigned until 14th October of that year until the Norman Invasion of England, when he was killed leading his troops against William the Conqueror's forces.
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Harold Godwinson swore fealty to William the Conqueror on January 6, 1066. This event took place at a meeting in the presence of Edward the Confessor, where Harold pledged loyalty to William, who claimed that Harold had promised to support his claim to the English throne. However, this oath was later contested when Harold became king after Edward's death later that same year.
William, and here one must assume you are referring to Duke William of Normandy, was not even in England at the time of the Battle of Stamford between Harold II and Harold Hardrada of Norway. William arrived in England with an invasion force later in the year of 1066 and defeated the English army under Harold II at the Battle of Hastings on the south coast.
Harold the saxon took over edward but William wanted revenge so then the battle of hastings began and Harold died and on Christmas day of that year William the conqueror was made king.
William defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD.
Harold Godwinson (1022-1066) ruled England as Harold II for just 40 weeks in 1066 (January 6 to October 14) before being killed at the Battle of Hastings, which established William I (William the Conqueror) as king in December of that year. Harold's rival for the throne, Edgar the Aetheling, was proclaimed king, but not crowned, in the intervening two months.
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No, Edward the Confessor did not fight in the Battle of Hastings. He had died earlier in 1066, and the battle was fought in October of that year between the forces of William the Conqueror and Harold II of England.
it is supposed to be a representation of the Battle of Hastings, in the year 1066, when William the Conqueror invaded England, and was met by the armies of King Harold.
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