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Few figures left behind a grand or even honourable legacy in that time of troubles known as the feudal anarchy, which engulfed Italy as the Carolingian Empire burst into flames unseen since the fall of the first Rome. Not long after the deposition of Charles III, the man whose idleness had...

Edgar Ætheling, as shown in an illuminated manuscript August, 1066: With favorable winds and good fortunes, Duke William “the Bastard” of Normandy sails out to the shores of Southern England with confidence that, should Harold II Godwinson meet him in battle, he could defeat him, and march on...