Note 39 — Chapter XI · THE ELECTION OF HAROLD.[1] January 5th–April 16th, 1066.
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The Danish Kings, though not of royal English blood, were of royal blood in their own land. With the exception of them, the Crown of Wessex, and of England as the developement and continuation of Wessex, had never gone out of the West-Saxon royal house. I cannot answer for all the momentary Kings in Northumberland or in the last days of Mercia.