1066: Sailing Into the Storm
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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What Happened to Harold?
Without children, of course, this meant there was no clear way to fuse the houses of wessex and godwin. It's easier to seize control of a centralized country than a decentralized one. So england was becoming kind of a sitting duck, you could say. And as this succession crisis develops, you can imagine the godwinsons certainly have their eye on the throne.
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