Narrator: January 1066. The king - Edward the Confessor - is dying and has no children to follow him on the throne. It is said that, years before, Edward named William Duke of Normandy as his ...

The original Bayeux Tapestry visually tells the story of the Battle of Hastings, which took place on 14 October 1066 in the south coast of England. At this conflict, the Norman-French army of William, ...

On the 14th October 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, defeated Harold II, King of England, at the Battle of Hastings. But his victory didn't mean William would automatically become King.

William of Normandy, known as 'the Conqueror', was born at Falaise in 1027, a natural son of Robert, Duke of Normandy and a girl called Herleve. He invaded England and defeated King Harold II at the ...

With Harold's brother Tostig, Hardrada invaded in September 1066. After a victorious battle at Fulford he was killed by Harold's army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge outside York. Fewer than 25 of ...

The images show Norton as Harold, Earl of Wessex and Coster-Waldau as William, Duke of Normandy ... William of Normandy the two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

William - later King William I of England - became Duke of Normandy after his father Robert ... King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, being crowned English King on Christmas Day that ...

It was Scandinavia. The region had its own separate identity, and the English rulers before 1066 kind of went along with that. They were happy to have a hands-off relationship with the North, but when ...