Posted on 09/07/2004 7:53:26 AM PDT by 68skylark
Knowledge of this time period is part of my job ...not worship.
I think you are right. He was considered a dangerous opportunist and quickly dispatched.
"William was quite obviously a usurper, plain and simple; he made up a ridiculous tale about Harold's having washed ashore years earlier and promising to support William's claim to the throne if it ever came to that. "
My understanding (from limited sources, who knows of course) is that Harold may have spent some time in Normandy with William, possibly shipwrecked. Some speculation I have read goes along the lines of Harold having eventually been pushed to make such a promise in return for his being able to go home alive. William was without a doubt a very ruthless man, and might have had no qualms taking advantage of Harold's situation to extract such a promise.
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I take it England, then (in 1013) did not include Scotland, Wales, or Ireland (as opposed to common useage today which is erroneously synonymous with Great Britain)?
No. If "England" were used at all at that time, it would cover only the south and southeast, not even Cornwall.
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