Battle Of Hastings

Battle Of Hastings

male
The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman conquest of England. The location was a hill approximately six miles north of...
Edward The Confessor

Edward The Confessor

male, deceased (1066)
St Edward the Confessor or "Eadweard III" (c. 1004-5 January 1066), son of Ethelred the Unready, was the penultimate Anglo-Saxon King of England...
Harold Godwinson

Harold Godwinson

male, deceased (1066)
Harold II of England was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. He ruled from January 5 to October 14 1066 when he was killed at the Battle...
Lanfranc

Lanfranc

male, deceased (1089)
Lanfranc was Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Lombard by extraction.
William I of England

William I ofEngland

male, deceased (1087)
William I of England was a mediæval monarch. He ruled as the Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 and as King of England from 1066 to 1087. William, m...
Odo Of Bayeux

Odo Of Bayeux

male, deceased (1097)
Odo of Bayeux (c. 1036 - February 1097, Palermo), Norman bishop and English earl, was the half-brother of William the Conqueror, and was for a time...
William Of Malmesbury

William Of Malmesbury

male, deceased (1143)
William of Malmesbury (c. 1080/1095-c. 1143), English historian of the 12th century, was born about the year 1080/1095, in Wiltshire. His father...
Hereward The Wake

Hereward The Wake

male, 974 years old
Hereward the Wake, known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th century leader in the Kingdom of England who...
Orderic Vitalis

Orderic Vitalis

male, deceased (1142)
Orderic Vitalis (1075-c. 1142) was an English chronicler who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and...
William Of Poitiers

William Of Poitiers

male, deceased (1090)
William of Poitiers, Norman chronicler, was born at Les Préaux, near Pont-Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman family. After serving as a...