1066: Sailing Into the Storm
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The Ten Sixties, a New Succession Crisis Arose.
The godwinson brothers controlled much of the country, and they carried out military operations well. For instance, harold carried out a series of small wars against the welsh over territory along the severn river. Civil administration was very much in the hands of edward and his courtiers at westminster. So you could say there was kind of divide, right, of almost a co rulership,. again, really, between the military leadership of harold godwinson and the civil authority of edward.
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