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Edith of Wessex ( 1025  18 December 1075 ) was a Queen of ___MASK71___ . Her husband was Edward the Confessor , whom she married on 23 January 1045 . Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries , she was crowned . The principal source on her life is a work she herself commissioned , the " Vita Ædwardi Regis " or the " Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster ", which is inevitably biased . The Peerage of the ___MASK66___ comprises most peerages created in the ___MASK64___ after the Act of Union in 1801 , when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain . New peers continued to be created in the Peerage of Ireland until 1898 ( the last creation being the Barony of Curzon of Kedleston ). Ranks . The ranks of the peerage are duke , marquess , earl , viscount , and baron . The Heptarchy ( from the Greek  " hepta ", " seven " and  " arkho ", " to rule ") is a collective name applied to the Anglo - Saxon kingdoms of ___MASK71___ during late antiquity and the early Middle Ages , conventionally identified as seven : East Anglia , Essex , Kent , Mercia , Northumbria , Sussex and Wessex . The Anglo - Saxon kingdoms eventually unified into the ___MASK11___ . The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman - French army of William , the Duke of ___MASK28___ , and an English army under the Anglo - Saxon King Harold Godwinson , beginning the Norman conquest of ___MASK71___ . It took place approximately northwest of Hastings , close to the present - day town of Battle , East Sussex , and was a decisive Norman victory . Earl of Wessex is a title that has been created three times in ___MASK25___ history , twice in the pre - Conquest Anglo - Saxon nobility of ___MASK71___ and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The region of Wessex ( the  West Saxons ), in the south and southwest of ___MASK71___ , had been one of the Anglo - Saxon kingdoms ( the Heptarchy ), whose expansion in the tenth century created a united ___MASK11___ . Wessex (" kingdom of the West Saxons ") was an Anglo - Saxon kingdom in the south of ___MASK46___ , from 519 until ___MASK71___ was unified by Æthelstan in the early 10th century . ___MASK91___ is a Scandinavian country in Europe . The southernmost and smallest of the Nordic countries , it is south - west of ___MASK42___ and south of ___MASK54___ , and bordered to the south by Germany . The Kingdom of ___MASK91___ is the sovereign state that comprises ___MASK91___ proper and two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean : the Faroe Islands and Greenland . ___MASK91___ has a total area of , and a population of 5 . 7 million . The country consists of a peninsula , Jutland , and an archipelago of 443 named islands , with the largest being Zealand and Funen . The islands are characterised by flat , arable land and sandy coasts , low elevation and a temperate climate . The ___MASK11___ was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century  when it emerged from various Anglo - Saxon kingdoms  until 1707 , when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain . Harold Godwinson or Harold II ( pronounced ; 1022  14 October 1066 ) was the last Anglo - Saxon king of ___MASK71___ . Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October , fighting the Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest of ___MASK71___ . His death marked the end of Anglo - Saxon rule over ___MASK71___ . The Norman conquest of ___MASK71___ was the 11th - century invasion and occupation of ___MASK71___ by an army of Norman , Breton , and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy , later styled as William the Conqueror . Norman Frank Cantor ( November 19 , 1929  September 18 , 2004 ) was a Canadian - ___MASK44___ historian who specialized in the medieval period . Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style , Cantor ' s books were among the most widely read treatments of medieval history in English . His textbook " The Civilization of the Middle Ages ", first published in 1963 , remains an all - time bestseller in the field . ___MASK54___ (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom of ___MASK54___ , is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom . ___MASK54___ also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and ___MASK88___ ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . The Vita Ædwardi Regis qui apud Westmonasterium Requiescit or simply Vita Ædwardi Regis is a historical manuscript completed by an anonymous author 1067 and commissioned by Queen Edith , wife of King Edward the Confessor . It survives in one manuscript , dated 1100 , now in the ___MASK25___ Library . The author is unknown , but was a servant of the queen and probably a Fleming . The most likely candidates are Goscelin and Folcard , monks of St Bertin Abbey in St Omer . Edward the Confessor (; 1003  5 January 1066 ), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor , was among the last Anglo - Saxon kings of ___MASK71___ , and usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex , ruling from 1042 to 1066 . Godwin of Wessex ( Old English : Godin ) ( 1001 -- 15 April 1053 ) was one of the most powerful earls in ___MASK71___ under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors . Cnut made him the first Earl of Wessex . Godwin was the father of King Harold Godwinson and Edith of Wessex , wife of King Edward the Confessor . Hastings is a historic town and borough in the county of East Sussex , within the historic county of Sussex , on the south coast of ___MASK71___ . The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London , and has an estimated population of 90 , 254 , which makes it the 66th largest settlement in the United Kingdom . The House of Wessex , also known as the House of Cerdic (" Cerdicingas " in Old English ), refers to the family that initially ruled a kingdom in southwest ___MASK71___ known as Wessex , from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex until the unification of the Kingdoms of ___MASK71___ . The North Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between ___MASK46___ , Scandinavia , Germany , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") sea on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around . William I ( Old Norman : " Williame I " c . 1028  9 September 1087 ), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard , was the first Norman King of ___MASK71___ , reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087 . A descendant of Rollo , he was Duke of Normandy ( as Duke William II ) from 1035 onward . After a long struggle to establish his power , by 1060 his hold on Normandy was secure , and he launched the Norman conquest of ___MASK71___ six years later . The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over ___MASK71___ and his continental lands and by difficulties with his eldest son . King Cnut the Great ( Old Norse : " Knútr inn ríki "; c . 995  12 November 1035 ), also known as Canute , was King of ___MASK91___ , ___MASK71___ , and Norway , together often referred to as the Anglo - Scandinavian or North Sea Empire . After his death , the deaths of his heirs within a decade , and the Norman conquest of ___MASK71___ in 1066 , his legacy was mostly forgotten . The medieval historian Norman Cantor stated that he was " the most effective king in Anglo - Saxon history ", although Cnut himself was Danish and not a Briton or Anglo - Saxon .