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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Norman 1066 Conquest I
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


King Edward the Confessor died in January of

 

1055
1066
1060
1070

 In 1051 King Edward offered his crown on his death to

 

Harold Godwin
Harald Hadrada
Morcar Leofric
Duke William
Who was immediately crowned King after the death of King Edward the Confessor ?

 

Morcar Leofric
Duke William
Harold Godwin
Harald Hadrada

 The Normans were Vikings who settled in France in the 10th Century under which leader ?

 

Valhalla
Robert The Devil
Olaf Haraldson
Rollo
In 1065 England was ruled by which two Earldoms ?

 

Godwin / Clare
Godwin / Spencer
Godwin / Leofric
Leofric / Cavendish

 Sons of King Ethelred II, Edward & Alfred were sent into exile in

 

Flanders
Normandy
France
Aragon
In 1065 who is chronicled in the Bayeux Tapestry confirming Williams offer to the throne ?

 

Harold Godwin
The Pope
Morcar Leofric
Harald Hadrada

 Which 75 year spectacle witnessed in April 1066 was a portent for the invasion ?

 

Lunar Eclipse
Transit of Venus
Solar Eclipse
Halley's Comet
In 1065 Morcar Leofric replaced unpopular brother of Harold, Tostig Godwin as Earl of

 

Northumbria
Wessex
East Anglia
Kent

 On the death of Harthacnut in 1042 who became King of England ?

 

Harold
Canute
Edward
Harold II


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