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Key Battles, the Battle of Hastings, Part 2 of 2

Since the late 10th century, the Kingdom of England had suffered a renewed wave of Viking attacks,

culminating in its takeover by Canute the Great, King of the Danes, in 1016.

During his reign, the raid had lessened. The Battle of the Danes in 1016. During his reign the raid had lessened. A principal reason for this is that Scandinavian people, including the Vikings, were in a state of transition. Many of the region's leaders were converting to Christianity and starting to unite into the beginnings of today's Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Also, one important group of Vikings had settled in northern France, where over the years they had turned their back on their pagan past and established a powerful new Christian state, Normandy.

In the early 1060s, the Anglo-Saxon king of England, Edward the Confessor, was an ailing health and had no children or any obvious heirs.

Unlike the Normans were the eldest son of a deceased duke, by birthright, inherited the throne.

The rules of succession were much less clear in Anglo-Saxon Britain.

The main considerations in the selection of the heir were,

1, Royal Blood, 2, nomination by the late king, three, election by the Witan, that is the Council of National Leaders,

and four, the perceived ability of the candidate to defend the people from outsiders.

During the 1050s, the man expected to succeed Edward was the son of Edmund Ironside, Edward the exile, who had lived most of his life out the country,

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