Dan Snow
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15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
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He's always launching strikes on Denmark to try and press his claims there.
But following the death of Edward the Confessor, he seems to have decided to try and reconstruct the great North Sea Empire of his forebear as King of Norway, Canute the Great, who ruled over not just Norway, but Denmark, bits of Sweden, and importantly England and the odd bit of Scotland as well.
I think it's fair to say that never before or since had the English crown been contested between such able, charismatic, and warlike candidates.
And it's that which makes ten sixty six.
Such an astonishing year.
English Harold was the first mover.
His sister was married to the old King Edward, and so he had access to the dying man in his last days.
He burst out from one visit to the bedside of the old king, to announce the world that King Edward had anointed him his successor.
Very convenient indeed.
Look, he was the most powerful man in the kingdom.
His brothers, his younger brothers, were also great lords.
He made a deal, I think, with the sort of powerful lords of the north, Edward and Morcar, Earls respectively of Mercia and Northumbria,
And his claim was accepted by them and the senior British aristocracy.
Who probably regarded it as pretty inevitable.
Poor Edgar, the child, overall blood was elbowed out of the way.
And Harold was crowned king.
Possibly on the very same day in the very same place that old King Edward was buried.
Newly built Westminster Abbey.
England certainly had a king now.
But it settled nothing.
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