The Road to Hastings: 978-1066 Fletcher Stephen C.Paperback
In AD 1066, Duke William II of Normandy, later known as William the Conqueror, won a decisive victory at the Battle of Hastings, but the complex drama that engendered that battle began years earlier,…
Specifikacia The Road to Hastings: 978-1066 Fletcher Stephen C.Paperback
In AD 1066, Duke William II of Normandy, later known as William the Conqueror, won a decisive victory at the Battle of Hastings, but the complex drama that engendered that battle began years earlier, with the marriage of Aethelred the Unready to Emma of Normandy, and culminated at the death of Edward the Confessor. Childless, Edward used his lack of an heir as a diplomatic tool; over time, he likely promised the throne to several competing interests, resulting in conflicting claims. On his deathbed, he named Harold his successor, but according to the Bayeux Tapestry and other Norman sources, the legitimacy of Harold's accession was nullified by his having earlier sworn an oath to defend William's right to the throne. William, with the support of the Norman aristocracy, crossed the Channel to Pevensey and then moved his mercenary army to Hastings. Harold had moved his own forces from
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