Bulwer-Lytton,Edward.
Harold. The last of the Saxon Kings.
Nottingham, Boots Publishers
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900,
cm.12,5x19,
pp.XVII,505, 1 tavola in bianco e nero in antiporta,
rilegatura in tutta tela verde, titoli in oro al dorso e al piatto anteriore.
Collana The Pelham Library.
Testo in inglese.
Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) (Old English: Harold Godwines sunu) (c. 1022 – 14 October 1066) was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.[1] Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 [2] until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October of that same year, fighting the Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest of England. Harold is one of only three Kings of England to have died in warfare; the other two were Richard the Lionheart and Richard III.
Harold was a son of Godwin, the powerful Earl of Wessex, and his wife Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, whose supposed brother Ulf Jarl was the son-in-law of Sweyn I and the father of Sweyn II of Denmark.
Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex (1029–1075), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.
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