The Battle of Hastings - 1066

The Viking Claim to the English crown

  • Key events preceding the Battle of Hastings
  • What was the Viking Claim?
  • The Vikings
  • King Harald HaRdrada - the Viking King
  • Vital Key Events

The Viking Claim to the English crown

Background to the Viking claim of Harald Hardrada

  • In 1016 the Viking King Canute became King of England, Denmark and Norway. He ruled until 1035
  • King Canute was succeeded by Hardicanute who ruled England until 1042
  • King Hardicanute had no heir and promised the English throne to King Magnus of Norway
  • The Saxon, Edward the Confessor, seized the English throne in 1042
  • King Magnus of Norway was too old to battle Edward the Confessor for the English throne
  • Magnus's son and heir was Hardrada

The Viking Hardrada's claim to the English throne

  • Hardrada asserted that he, as Magnus's son and heir, was the rightful ruler of England due to the agreement between his father and Hardicanute the Danish ruler of England

To find out more about their claims to the English throne please click one of the following links:

The Duke William the Bastard of Normandy claim
The Harold Godwinson of Wessex claim
The Edgar the Aetheling claim
Wessex and the Anglo Saxons
The Kings of England 871 - 1066
 

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