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


Who was immediately crowned King after the death of King Edward the Confessor ?

 

Duke William
Harold Godwin
Morcar Leofric
Harald Hadrada

 In 1065 who is chronicled in the Bayeux Tapestry confirming Williams offer to the throne ?

 

The Pope
Morcar Leofric
Harold Godwin
Harald Hadrada
On the death of Harthacnut in 1042 who became King of England ?

 

Canute
Edward
Harold
Harold II

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

 

Transit of Venus
Solar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
Halley's Comet
In 1051 King Edward offered his crown on his death to

 

Harald Hadrada
Morcar Leofric
Harold Godwin
Duke William

 In 1065 Morcar Leofric replaced unpopular brother of Harold, Tostig Godwin as Earl of

 

Wessex
East Anglia
Northumbria
Kent
In 1065 England was ruled by which two Earldoms ?

 

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

 King Edward the Confessor died in January of

 

1066
1060
1055
1070
The Normans were Vikings who settled in France in the 10th Century under which leader ?

 

Robert The Devil
Olaf Haraldson
Valhalla
Rollo

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

 

Normandy
France
Flanders
Aragon


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