Norman Conquest

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Norman Conquest

• Kristine Leetberg
• XB

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Edward the Confessor

• Sweden
• Hungary
• Normandy
• England
• Reign

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The Westminster Abbey

• Benedictine monastery
• Architectural masterpiece
• Memorials

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Harold Godwin

• Chief minister
• Promise
• Last Anglo-Saxon king
• Battles

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Harald Hardrada

• A descendant of King Canute of England.
• Claimed his family was promised it could rule
  England.

• Was frequently at war and usually won.
• Collected lots of taxes from his people to pay
  for wars.
• Very unpopular, but powerful.

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Sources

• http//www.sights-and-culture.com/London/Westminst
  er-Abbey.html
• saints.sqpn.com/saint-edward-the-confessor/
• http//historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwhar
  old2.htm
• http//www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/1066_claims
  /claimants_harald.htm

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