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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: 1066 births, 1066 deaths, 1066 disestablishments, 1066 establishments, Conflicts in 1066, Harold Godwinson, Battle of Hastings, Harald Hardrada, Edward the Confessor, Battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066 and All That, Tostig Godwinson, Lý Nhân Tông, Ifranid dynasty, List of state leaders in 1066, 1066 Granada massacre, Al-Juwayni, Battle of Fulford, Stenkil, Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Hedingham Castle, Gottschalk, Sripati, Theobald of Provins, Henry, Count of Portugal, Arialdo, Rostislav of Tmutarakan, Herluin de Conteville, Conan II, Duke of Brittany, Al-Bayhaqi, Gyrth Godwinson, Taillefer, Ermengol III, Count of Urgell, Leofwine Godwinson, Godfrey of Amiens, Cresconius of Santiago de Compostela, Ibn Butlan, Hawise, Duchess of Brittany, Yahya of Antioch, Fulk of Vendôme, Eric Stenkilsson, Taifa of Morón, Udayadityavarman II, Eberhard, John Scotus, Godric the Sheriff, Ælfwig, William II, Count of Besalú, Ibn Sidah, Ordric. Excerpt: Edward the Confessor (Old English: ; French: ; c. 1003 - 5 January 1066), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066. He has traditionally been seen as unworldly and pious, and his reign as marking the continuing disintegration of royal power in England and the advancement in power of the earls. However, modern historians regard him as a successful king, who was energetic, resourceful and sometimes ruthless, but whose reputation has been unfairly tarnished by the Norman conquest shortly after his death. Edward had succeeded Cnut the Great's son Harthacnut, restoring the rule of the House of Wessex after the period of Danish rule since Cnut had conquered England in 1016. When Edward died in 1066 he was succeeded by Harold Godwinson, who was defeated and killed in the same year by the Normans under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. Edward was canonized in 1161 by Pope Alexander III, and is commemorated on 13 October by the Roman Catholic Church of England and Wales and the Church of England. He was regarded as one of the national saints of England until King Edward III adopted Saint George as patron saint in about 1350. Attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor (who lived before standardized coats of arms came into use). Coin of Edward the Confessor 1042-1066Edward was the seventh son of Æthelred, and the first by his second wife Emma, sister of Richard, Duke of Normandy. Edward was born between 1003 and 1005 in Islip, Oxfordshire, and is first recorded as a 'witness' to two charters in 1005. During his childhood England was the target of Viking raids and invasions under Sweyn Forkbeard and his son, Cnut. Following Sweyn's seizure of the throne in 1013, Emma fled to Normandy, followed by Edward and his younger brother Alfred, and then by Æthelred. Sweyn died in February 1014, and leading Englishmen invited