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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Norman 1066 Conquest I
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


Sons of King Ethelred II, Edward & Alfred were sent into exile in

 

Aragon
Flanders
Normandy
France

 In 1065 Morcar Leofric replaced unpopular brother of Harold, Tostig Godwin as Earl of

 

Kent
Northumbria
Wessex
East Anglia
King Edward the Confessor died in January of

 

1070
1055
1066
1060

 In 1065 England was ruled by which two Earldoms ?

 

Leofric / Cavendish
Godwin / Clare
Godwin / Spencer
Godwin / Leofric
Who was immediately crowned King after the death of King Edward the Confessor ?

 

Harald Hadrada
Morcar Leofric
Duke William
Harold Godwin

 In 1051 King Edward offered his crown on his death to

 

Duke William
Harold Godwin
Harald Hadrada
Morcar Leofric
In 1065 who is chronicled in the Bayeux Tapestry confirming Williams offer to the throne ?

 

Harald Hadrada
Harold Godwin
The Pope
Morcar Leofric

 The Normans were Vikings who settled in France in the 10th Century under which leader ?

 

Rollo
Valhalla
Robert The Devil
Olaf Haraldson
Which 75 year spectacle witnessed in April 1066 was a portent for the invasion ?

 

Halley's Comet
Lunar Eclipse
Transit of Venus
Solar Eclipse

 On the death of Harthacnut in 1042 who became King of England ?

 

Harold II
Harold
Canute
Edward


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