In 2016 I started a series of posts about the events of 1066 that led to the Battle of Hastings that year on 14 October, 1066. It had been the 950th anniversary of the great battle and the series began with Chapter One, the death of King Edward the Confessor and the crowning of Harold Godwinson. The series, known as 1066: The Road to Hastings, followed the year of 1066 event by event until Christmas Day, when the new king, William the Conqueror, was enthroned. This new year of 2023 I aim to be revising the posts and bringing them up to date with new knowledge and a new perspective, gained from new research undertaken for the book on Harold that I am currently writing for Pen & Sword books.
The book,
SEARCHING FOR THE LAST ANGLO-SAXON KING: HAROLD GODWINSON, ENGLAND’S GOLDEN WARRIOR
will be published in January 25
The events of 1066 were to change the face of England forever. Her landscape, her laws and customs, and her great ruling dynasties, were changed forever. As we approach the 957th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, here on my website, I will be posting a series of blogs each month, to commemorate the events that led up to the great battle in which the flower of English youth lost their lives. We will be taking a sightseeing tour of the background to what happened and as we journey through the year chronologically, we’ll be exploring what motivated Harold to take the throne instead of backing the young, inexperienced Edgar, and why William believed he had a right to cross the sea, vanquish the English, kill their chosen king, and take the English throne for himself.
I look forward to having you, my reader, on this journey with me as we enter into the world of the last Anglo-Saxon rulers and their ever lasting legacy.
Photo care of REGBphotography and Mitchell Lawrence portraying Harold Godwinson
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