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Eadward's personal character; purely monastic nature of
his virtues; points of likeness to his father
His love of hunting; contrast with the humanity of An-
selm

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Personal appearance and habits of Eadward

His love of favourites; his fondness for foreigners; pro-
motion of Normans to high office

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nies against Godwine and his sons

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Character of Godwine; his relations to ecclesiastical bodies;
his over care for his own household

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His good and strict government of his Earldom

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His civil virtues; his singular forbearance; his champion-
ship of England against strangers

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Character of the Lady Eadgyth; her doubtful loyalty to
England; her relations to her husband

Greatness of Godwine and his house

The other Earldoms; Mercia under Leofric; Northumber-
land under Siward

General condition of England; tendency not to separation
but to union; comparison with Frankish history
Nature of the Earldoms as affected by the Danish conquest
special position of Northumberland

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§ 3. From the Coronation of Eadward to the Remission of the

War-tax. 1043-1051.

1043-1051 Character of the first nine years of Eadward

Relations between Eadward and his mother; probable
offence given by Emma

November Witenagemót of Gloucester; Eadward and the Earls despoil
16, 1043

Emma of her treasure

1043-1046 Probable connexion of Emma with the partizans of Swegen;
banishments of Osbeorn, Osgod Clapa, Gunhild, and others
Stigand appointed Bishop of the East-Angles and de-
posed

April-
Nov. 1043

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Baneful influence of Robert; his calumnies against Godwine;
his connexion with the Norman Conquest

Banishment of Gunhild

1044-1047 Condition of Northern Europe; war between Swegen and

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Swegen and Harold attack Magnus and save England from

invasion

Marriage of Eadward and Eadgyth; promotions of Harold

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Affairs of Scandinavia; Harold joins Magnus and receives a
share of the Kingdom of Norway

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59-60

and Beorn

Death of Brihtwold, Bishop of the Wilsætas; Hermann of
Lotharingia succeeds; policy of the promotion of Ger-
man prelates

March 23,1046 Death of Bishop Lyfing; his career and character.
1046-1072 Leofric succeeds him in Cornwall and Devonshire
1050 He removes the see to Exeter, and subjects his Canons to
the rule of Chrodegang
1046-1062 Ealdred succeeds Lyfing at Worcester; his character
Gruffydd ap Llywelyn reconciled with the King; his joint
expedition with Swegen against Gruffydd ap Rhydderch.

Swegen's abduction of Eadgifu; he throws up his Earldom

and retires to Denmark; suppression of Leominster

Abbey.

Magnus defeats Swegen; occupies Denmark and dies sud-

denly

1048-1061 Harold succeeds in Norway; Swegen in Denmark; their
long warfare

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Norwegian and Danish embassies to England; help again
refused to Swegen; peace concluded with Harold

1046-1047 Physical phænomena

Aug. 29, 1047

1048

Ælfwine, Bishop of Winchester, dies; Stigand succeeds

Ravages of Lothen and Yrling; the King and the Earls

pursue the pirates, but they escape to Flanders.

Relations with Flanders; their analogy with the relations
with Normandy in 991 and 1000

Alliance with the Emperor Henry; his nomination of Ger-
man Popes

1048-1054 Pontificate of Leo the Ninth

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Beorn entrapped and slain by Swegen

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Swegen declared Nithing by the army; nature of the mili-

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tary Gemót

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Various military operations; movements of Osgod Clapa

Ships from Ireland in the Bristol Channel joined by Gruffydd

of South Wales

Campaign of Bishop Ealdred; his defeat by Gruffydd

1049-1050 Increasing connexion of England with the Continent; Eng-
lish attendance at synods; synods at Rheims and Mainz.
Deaths of Bishops and Abbots; Siward dies and Eadsige
resumes the primacy; Eadnoth of Dorchester dies and is
succeeded by Ulf the Norman

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Midlent, 1050 Witenagemót of London; reduction of the fleet; Swegen
inlawed

The King's vow of pilgrimage to Rome; Bishops Ealdred
and Hermann sent to obtain a dispensation

Synods of Rome and Vercelli; Lanfranc and Berengar; Ulf
confirmed in his Bishoprick; pilgrimage of Macbeth?

Death of Archbishop Eadsige; the monks of Christ Church

elect Elfric, who is supported by Godwine but re-

jected by the King

Witenagemót of London; Robert of Jumièges appointed to

Canterbury, Spearhafoc to London, and Rudolf to the

Abbey of Abingdon

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CONTENTS.

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Robert returns from Rome with the pallium; he refuses to
consecrate Spearhafoc, who holds his see without con-

secration

The remaining ships paid off; remission of the Heregeld;

distinction between Danegeld and Heregeld

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