Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The 3 Claimants to the Throne
- Harold
Hadrada
- Should be King
- He was related to a King
- He had good
plans for the
country
- He had lots of
relatives around
the globe that he
could rely on
- He had more power
- He travelled around lots
- So he was used to it
- He knew how to run a
country
- He joined forces with Tostig
- He had fought many
battles so he had good
tactics and a fearsome
reputation
- Shouldn't be King
- Could be away a lot
- Wanted to take
England by force
so that he could say that he
had conquered
it
- He wasn't English
- He wanted to change England
- He didn't know
any of the
traditions
- Relying on his Viking
reputaton
- Duke William of
Normandy
- Shouldn't be King
- He invaded England
- Should have
negotiated
with other
contenders
- He wasn't English
- Foreign
- Communication
problem
- It was a verbal
promise-not
written down or
recorded in any
way
- Not official
- He didn't know
any of the
traditions
- He provoked a war by invading England
- Should be King
- He was also allegedly promise
the throne by King Edward
- Respecting the King
- He helped King Edward
and looked after his family
- He had enough
supporters in his
own country to fight
- Edward's supporters
might support him
because he had
helped King Edward
- He had a
readymade army
so he didn't have
to recruit
- Harold
Godwinson
- Should be King
- Apparently it was King Edward's dying wish
- Was obeying the King
- Didn't want to disappoint the King
- If he was King,
he would get
the support of
the Englishmen
- He was English
- He wasn't foreign
- Shouldn't be King
- He may have been lying about King Edward
- King Edward might
not have said
what he meant
- It was not written down
- He could have lied
- Only himself and King Edward's wife, Edith
were at the King's bedside and Edith
was promised to him. If he told the
people that , they would support him
and not Edith, because she was a
woman