The Battle of Hastings

king harold was dead. His brother tostig was also dead and buried at york. Harold's next two brothers probably really would have been a good choice, but gurth and leofena were both killed at hastings. And as for the women of the godwinson sty well, elf gifu, the king's sister, was dead. The living sisters, the dowager queen edith and the nun gunhild, were both childless, which meant there were no male heirs available. But thanks to that hostage situation that started all the way back with edward the confessor, well, he was now a prisoner held by duke william the bastard