A French bastard arriving with armed banditti and establishing himself the King of England against the consent of the natives is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original and certainly has no divinity in it…. If the succession runs in the line of the conqueror the nation runs in the line of being conquered and ought to rescue itself
Thomas Paine...
Except it was very much in debate whom had been declared successor.
So sad that so much turmoil resulted from heirless but very pious Edward the Confessor.