Note 1516 — Chapter XVI · THE INTERREGNUM.[1503] October 15–December 25, 1066.
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Guy of Amiens (645) has here a very singular statement;
“Unà, postremùm rectores atque potentes
Tali consilio consuluere sibi:
Scilicet ut puerum natum de traduce Regis
Hi Regem sacrent, ne sine Rege forent.”
“Tradux Regis” must mean either Godwine or Harold. In an earlier passage (472) it means Godwine. The passage then implies that either a brother or a son of Harold was chosen. I do not however take this as showing that there really was any movement in favour of one of Harold’s sons, but rather that Guy fancied that Eadgar was a son or brother of Harold.