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Updated: September 18, 2025
Harold II., the last of the native English kings, was the second son of Earl Godwin by his Danish wife Gytha, the sister of Earl Ulf, and was born about 1022. At an early age he was made Earl of the East Angles and he shared his father's outlawry in 1051, finding a refuge in Ireland.
It was renewed repeatedly, as, for instance, in the Council of Auxerre in 595, by a capitulary of Charlemagne in 789, and by the Council of Selingstadt in 1022, but always in vain. If inquirers might not seek for answers in the churches, at the tombs of the Saints, they would seek them in the dens of necromancers. There are numerous accounts of such presages in the chronicles.
It was seen by many that strength and peace were better than division and war. In England, the Earls of Mercia and Wessex tried to rise into supreme power. In Wales Llywelyn ab Seisyll, victorious in many battles and wishing for peace, made the country rich and happy. Still, when he died in 1022, the princes said they would not obey another over-king.
See, also, the damaging comments thereon by Rives, Life of Madison, i. 63, 64. 4 Am. Arch. i. 928. 4 Ibid. i. 947. Ibid. 4 Am. Arch. i. 949, 950. Ibid. i. 953. Ibid. 858. Ibid. i. 963. Hildreth, iii. 52. 4 Am. Arch. i. 1032. 4 Am. Arch. i. 1022. Ibid. i. 1145. Ibid. i. 1254. Ibid. i. 1062. Ibid. i. 1139. Ibid. i. 1171. 4 Am. Arch. i. 1340. 4 Am. Arch. ii. 167, 168.
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