After Edward died, the English Witan (council of Anglo-Saxon kings) chose Earl Harold of Wessex as the next king. The Normans took over all of England, including the Danelaw. Duke William of ...

This was due to successful farming and trade in the towns and villages. The king, his earls and the Church all profited from this through taxes. Below the king were the earls, the ruling nobility.

When Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor died on January ... s King Harald Hardrada and Harold II’s own brother, the Earl of Northumbria Tostig Godwinson. But the most famous and bloody ...