Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... throne . In doing so , it ignored three other claimants . One was a son of Edmund Ironside ; another Harold Hardrada , king of Norway . The third was the dead king's great - nephew , William , Duke of Normandy , to whom Harold , when ...
... throne . In doing so , it ignored three other claimants . One was a son of Edmund Ironside ; another Harold Hardrada , king of Norway . The third was the dead king's great - nephew , William , Duke of Normandy , to whom Harold , when ...
Page 191
... throne , ' free and intact of any subjection to the King of England ' . No Parliament was to be held outside Scotland on any matter that concerned it , and no taxes should be exacted from its people except to meet the common expenses of ...
... throne , ' free and intact of any subjection to the King of England ' . No Parliament was to be held outside Scotland on any matter that concerned it , and no taxes should be exacted from its people except to meet the common expenses of ...
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... throne , his own father's surrender of the overlordship of Aquitaine had never become effective - and that province was , therefore , still part of France . As its overlord he was entitled , and morally bound , to pronounce judgment on ...
... throne , his own father's surrender of the overlordship of Aquitaine had never become effective - and that province was , therefore , still part of France . As its overlord he was entitled , and morally bound , to pronounce judgment on ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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