The Battle of Hastings
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Next 12 Months Make Game of Thrones Like a Game of Patty Cake
In ten 66, there wasn't even a son to take the throne and it was open season. Edmund's sons were exiled, though lucky to escape being mu d ebnanze's younger brother was murdered. This is not a time when the automatic transition from father to son or from parent to child is as assured as it is in other periods. So nearly every succession was contested, and few more famously than the one in ten 66.
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