Who ruled England at the beginning of 1066?

[cryptichick63]

could it have been a norman?

[NazNomad]

Was it a sports-person?

[yogi-bear]

Fred Perry???

[jno]

Edward the Confessor (died on Jan 5), an Anglo-Saxon

[jno]

PS, having said that, his mum was a Norman. His father was Ethelred the Unready.

[miacat]

Unready for what?

[tiggerblue10]

Greg Norman?

[miacat]

He was unready for Greg Norman??!!

[DTCwordfan]

well he never had a packet of condoms at hand an, with his two wives, sried 14 children, never mind the illegitimate ones......hence the title, Unready

[DTCwordfan]

sorry - typo - sired

[jno]

comes from the old English "unraede", I think, which doesn't really mean unready, it means "badly advised"

[tiggerblue10]

In answer to your question Cryptichick it was Edward the Confessor although he died on 5th Jan 1066. He was not Norman, he was Anglo-Saxon.

[jno]

humph. Do keep up, tiggerblue

[craft1948]

lol jno.....you sounded just like my daughter then.

[tiggerblue10]

Ooops! Sorry Jno, didn't realise you already put that up.

Doh!

[tiggerblue10]

He actually sounded like my mum Craft, I'm quaking in my boots!

[mollykins]

I thought everyone knew it was the anglo-saxon , king Edward (the confessor)

[tiggerblue10]

Not necessarily Molly. I would imagine that 9 out of 10 people know who was crowned King on 25th December 1066, but not that many would know about Edward unless they have studied British history.

[miacat]

"I thought everyone knew..." seems a little harsh - some of us are mere mortals!

[DTCwordfan]

What about poor old Harold Godwinsen and Edgar the Atheling who both briefly held the crown that year befor old Guillaume got his grubby hands on it, technically on the 17th of Dec and reality of the 25th. Edgar was proclaimed king on Harry's demise,but never crowned.

[miacat]

Except DT obviously