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Edward the Confessor died in 1066. William maintained he had been promised the throne, but Harold Godwinson was chosen by the council of nobles.

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Q: William the Conqueror was a Norman who defeated an Anglo-Saxon nobleman to take control of England after who died in 1066?
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