ROYAL FAMILY history has endured the memory of King Harold Godwinson being killed by an arrow to the eye for almost a millennium - but the symbolic beginning of the Norman Conquests may be more ...

Harold Godwinson came from a murky period of British history when people married their cousins and killed their friends with battle axes, ... He probably wasn’t killed by an arrow in the eye.

HAROLD Godwinson was crowned King of England 950 years ago today. ... The first report of Harold being shot in the eye with an arrow did not appear until 30 years later. 10.

After 900 years the residence of King Harold, the last King of England, has been found in a costal village in West Sussex. Harold's private estate was depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry ...

January 1066 - Edward the Confessor dies. His brother in law, Harold Godwinson, an Earl in the powerful family of Wessex, makes a bid for the Crown and is selected by the Anglo-Saxon Witenaġemot.

Then the King himself was fatally shot in the eye by an arrow and William — later dubbed The Conqueror — was crowned King of England on Christmas Day. Topics Hold Ye Front Page ...

The Battle of Hastings was re-enacted at the weekend, with King Harold, centre, taking an arrow in the eye An underground scan is being carried out at Waltham Abbey in Essex in a hunt for evidence ...

At the top I saw the King of England, Harold Godwinson, surrounded by his Huscarls with their big axes and I remembered one theory of how he died. An arrow through the eye. I ran up the hill.

King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, has long been thought to have been killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site ...

The last Anglo-Saxon King of England. Harold Godwinson (Harold II) ruled for only nine months in 1066 before he was killed in the critical Battle of Hastings. His residence Bosham, on the coast of ...