A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . villeiuoDva>. Fiii. oU. — Harold giviim liis oiitli to William tho Comiueror. ploin tla llajeuxtapestry, eleventh century. In the cathedral at Jiayeux, Nonnaniiy. (FromF. K. Fowke.) bigot, by nature designed rather for a monk than the prince of awarlike people, but he was also, in consequence of having beenbrought up in Normandy, alienated from the English population,and attached to Norman-French customs, which he tried to enforcein his court. He even endeavored to rob the native church of itsnational c
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . villeiuoDva>. Fiii. oU. — Harold giviim liis oiitli to William tho Comiueror. ploin tla llajeuxtapestry, eleventh century. In the cathedral at Jiayeux, Nonnaniiy. (FromF. K. Fowke.) bigot, by nature designed rather for a monk than the prince of awarlike people, but he was also, in consequence of having beenbrought up in Normandy, alienated from the English population,and attached to Norman-French customs, which he tried to enforcein his court. He even endeavored to rob the native church of itsnational character by elevating Norman clerics to its highest posi-tions. Not till 1052 was a stop put to this dangerous practice,when a rising, under Duke Godwin of Wessex, relegated Edward,on whom his churchly friends had conferred the equivocal title of the Confessor, to complete insignificance. How much Edwards 94 FRANCE AND ENGLAND UNTIL TUE TWELFTH CENTCHY. weak and unpopular rule had alienated the Anglo-Saxon people fromtheir royal house was shown on his death, in 106G. Not EdgarAetheling, the son of
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