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5th January 1066: Death of Edward the Confessor sparks a succession crisis
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:49
Publish Date: 2018-01-04 21:05:40
Description: A succession crisis was sparked following the death of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. Edward was crowned King of England in 1042 and earned a reputation as a pious and gentle ruler largely thanks to later religious writers in Westminster who lobbied for his canonisation. The term ‘Confessor’ was consequently applied to recognise him having lived a saintly life but dying without martyrdom. Edward’s death instead came about after a period of illness that began sometime after the Northumbrian revolt of October 1065 that led to the exile of Tostig, one of the king’s favourites. Assumed by ...
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