• General Notes

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  TITL University of Hull Royal  base (England) AUTH Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science P UBLcopyright 1994, 1995, 1996 usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, myt hological figures, etc   WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX  bct@@tardis.ed.ac.uk     E lectronic
  TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 AUTH Frederic k Lewis Weis PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992 Same ref source as earlier e d,  "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623-1650" ed 1-6 good to very g ood   J.H. Garner   Book PAGE line 1B p 6
  ALIA Harold Godwinsson /Earl of East Anglia/
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  _FA1 PLAC Last restored Saxon King of England. Reigned 1066.
  _FA2 PLAC Reputedly named heir by Edward (his brother-in-law).
  _FA3 DATE Sep 1066 PLAC Crushed the forces of his brother Tostig & Harold III Hardraade of N orway.
  _FA4 DATE 1066 PLAC Killed in Battle of Hastings by the army of William the Conqueror of Norm andy.
  _FA5 DATE Sep 1066 PLAC His victory at Stamford Bridge over Tostig & Norwegians was brillian t.
  _FA6 DATE Sep 1066 PLAC Stamford Bridge was last time Scandinavians ever seriously threatene d England.
  _FA7 PLAC Ealdorman of East Anglia, succeeded his father as Ealdorman of Wessex in 1053.
  TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 AUTH Frederi ck Lewis Weis PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992 Same ref source as earlie r ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623-1650" ed 1-6 good to ver y good   J.H. Garner     Book PAGE line 1B
  p 6 Last Anglo-Saxon King of England, reputedly named heir by the during Edward (his brother- in-law).  After becoming King, he crushed the forces of his brother Tostig & Harold III Hardr aade of Norway, who claimed the throne, at Stamford Bridge.  He was killed in the Battle of H astings by the army of a successful claimant to the throne, William the Conqueror of Normandy . REF: British Monarchy Official Website: On Edward's death in 1066, the king's council elect ed his brother-in-law, Harold Godwinson (Jan-Oct 1066), king. In September, Harald of Norwa y invaded England and was defeated by Harold at the Battle of Stamford Bridge near York. Mean while, William, Duke of Normandy (whom Harold had acknowledged in 1065 as Edward III's succes sor and who was also related to Edward by marriage) had landed in Sussex. Harold rushed sout h and on 14 October 1066 his army was defeated near Hastings and Harold was killed. David Hum iston Kelley's explication of a possible descent of Harold II from Aethelred II appears in th e Festchrift for Charles Evans edited by Neil Thompson. Kelley's paper, which is an enlargeme nt of evidence presented by Lundie W. Barlow in the New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Register in the 195 0s, shows the descent of land from a son of Aethelred to Earl Godwin, Harold's father. The ar gument is strong, especially since it is a group of manors that descended together.  Bierbrie r, however, in the Genealogists' Magazine, denies the lineage and indicates that Godwin recei ved this land as a unit from the Danish conquerors. I have not seen any contemporary evidenc e that would take settle this question either way. The key article on the proposed descent o f Harold II from Aethelred I is David H. Kelley, "The House of Aethelred," in Lindsay S. Broo ke, ed., Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasio n of His Eightieth Birthday_ (Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, Ltd. , Occasional Publication No. Two, 1989). As I posted earlier, the descent of land provides st rong evidence for the descent of Harold II's father, Earl Godwine, from Aethelred I (not II) , but it is also possible that the land was expropriated and presented to Godwine and his pos session of it does not indicate genealogical descent.

Details of Harold II's family with Elizaveta of Mercia