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Death of Edward The Confessor
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The first event that le to the Battle of Hastings was the death of the English King Edward the Confessor in January 1066. The problem was that Edward the Confessor died without leaving any direct male heirs. Edward the Confessor had deliberately chosen not to have any children to upset the ambitions of his in-laws the Godwinson family,
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