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thegns, and bishops. Meetings of the witan were sometimes called the witenagemot. Its primary function was to advise the king on legislation, judicial

King Edward the Confessor, died without an heir on 5 January 1066, the Witenagemot convened and chose Harold to succeed him; he was probably the first English

emerged. Among them were Harold Godwinson (recognised as king by the Witenagemot after the death of Edward the Confessor), Harald Hardrada (King of Norway

of Godwin, Edward's earlier opponent. Harold was elected king by the Witenagemot of England and crowned by Ealdred, the Archbishop of York, although Norman

folkesmōt; Norwegian: folkemøte) was analogous, the forerunner to the witenagemōt "royal council" and a precursor of the modern Parliament of the United

powerful of the English aristocrats. Harold was elected king by the Witenagemot of England and crowned by the Archbishop of York, Ealdred, although Norman

was decided jointly by the king and by an assembly of nobility, the Witenagemot. Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and the most powerful noble in England

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Ealdred, Archbishop of York. Harold Godwinson was elected as King by the Witenagemot, who had gathered in Westminster to celebrate the feast of Epiphany.

Parliaments of England Predecessors   Witenagemot 7th – 11th centuries   Curia regis 1066 – c. 1215 Henry III   1st 1237   2nd 1242   3rd 1244   4th 1246