CONTENTS. The struggle between Normans and Englishmen begins with the accession of Eadward Import of Eadward's election; resolve of the Eng- Other possible candidates; Swend Estrithson; Ead- Presence of foreign Ambassadors at the coronation; Eadward's foreign connexions; his relations with Magnus of Denmark and with the French Princes Character of Eadward; his position as a Saint Eadward's memory acceptable to Englishmen and Eadward's personal character; purely monastic nature of his virtues; points of likeness to his father CONTENTS. xi Greatness of Godwine and his house The other Earldoms; Mercia under Leofric; North- General condition of England; tendency not to sepa- ration but to union; comparison with Frankish Nature of the Earldoms as affected by the Danish 1039-1063 Affairs of Wales; reign of Gruffydd of North Wales His victory over Eadwine at Rhyd-y-groes § 3. From the Coronation of Eadward to the Remission of 1043-1051 Character of the first nine years of Eadward 58-61 November Witenagemót of Gloucester; Eadward and the Earls 61-62 1043-1046 Probable connexion of Emma with the partizans of Swend; banishments of Osbeorn, Osgod Clapa, Gunhild, and others 62-64 Nov. 1043 deposed 64-65 Importance of ecclesiastical appointments; mode of 65-68 1044-1050 Siward Abbot of Abingdon appointed Coadjutor to 1044-1045 Magnus claims the English Crown; answer of Ead- 73-74 ward; preparations against Magnus 1030-1044 Early life and exploits of Harold Hardrada; his 1038-1040 He commands the Warangians in Sicily His crusade or pilgrimage; he escapes from Constan- tinople and joins Swend in Sweden Swend and Harold attack Magnus and save England Marriage of Eadward and Eadgyth; promotions of Harold and Beorn Death of Brihtwold, Bishop of the Wilsætas; Her- Death of Bishop Lyfing; his career and character 1046-1072 Leofric succeeds him in Cornwall and Devonshire 1046-1062 Ealdred succeeds Lyfing at Worcester; his character joint expedition with Swegen against Gruffydd ap Swegen's abduction of Eadgifu; he throws up his 79-81 83-85 85-86 87-89 89-90 Ships from Ireland in the Bristol Channel joined by Campaign of Bishop Ealdred; his defeat by Gruffydd 110-111 1049-1050 Increasing connexion of England with the continent; Deaths of Bishops and Abbots; Siward dies, and Eadsige resumes the primacy; Eadnoth of Dor- 111-113 The King's vow of pilgrimage to Rome; Bishops sation 115-116 |