Harold Godwinson: Son of Godwine and Earl of Wessex. Harold was very powerful by 1066. He was possibly richer than the King, and had established alliances with all the major magnates of England.

The Wales of 1066 was enfeebled as the result of the fall ... all of which were held by men of strongly aggressive tendencies. By 1086, the Earl of Hereford had brought about the extinction ...

The Wales of 1066 was enfeebled as a result of the fall ... all of which were held by men of strongly aggressive tendencies. By 1086, the Earl of Hereford had brought about the extinction of ...

The Earls, Edwin and Morcar ... Having been made king following Edward the Confessor's death in 1066, Harold Godwinson was waiting for an invasion in the south, from Normandy.