Peter Nicolai Arbo England 5th January 1066 , The English king Edward the confessor and then earl Harold Godwinson was proclaimed king at Westminster Abbey the day after the 6th. Edward the confessor had promised both Harold and William "Bastard" of Normandy the seat of the throne before he died. Both men were distant relatives to the childless Edward the confessor. When William heard of it he quickly raised an army. Harald Hardrada also claimed the English throne and he was faster than William the bastard and on 8th September,1066 240-300 Viking ships landed on the beaches of Scarborough and began an attempt to gain the English throne. 20th September,1066 Battle of Fulford : Harald Hardrada defeated the English earls Edwin and Walther. 2 days later Harald Hardrada attacked and conquered York. 24th September,1066 Harold Godwinson arrived after marching from London. 25th September,1066 Battle of Stamford bridge Battle of Stamford bridge Harald...
December 17 at Picquigny on the Somme, Wiliam Longsword was ambushed by men loyal to Arnulf the Count of Flanders while the two were at a peace conference negotiating he was killed and a his 10 year old son Richard the fearless was his heir, Louis IV of France seized Normandy, installed the boy Richard in his father's office, then placed him in the care of the count of Ponthieu.
The king then split the lands, giving lands in lower Normandy to his vassals Herbert of Vermandois (Rouen), Hugh the Great (Bayeux) and Arnulf of Flanders (ended in 945).
King Louis kept Richard in solitary confinement at Lâon, but he escaped with the assistance of Osmond de Centville, Bernard de Senlis (who had been a companion of Rollo), Ivo de Bellèsme,Anslech de Bricquebec and Raoul Taisson and Bernard the Dane.
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