Norman Conquest: Extension Unit 1

Gap-fill exercise

This task is designed to test both your Historical knowledge an to revise some of your Literacy skills. When died Harold , Earl of Wessex, was King. Harold a leading Saxon lord and had plenty of experience as a and as a governor, so for him to be crowned in the absence of a royal to the throne was not too surprising. Within 10 months though Harold was killed in Battle, the crown was in the hands of a foreigner and England was at an end. William of Poitiers