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HiHi

Right :soap: it is then :)

Harold was hardly a usurper Paul having been elected by the Highest Moot in the country (think it was the Witten or Wotten Moot), a collection of the most powerful Earls & Thaigns in England, even Earls Edwin (Mercia) & Morcar (Northumberland) supported his election, + he was universally popular with the people of England.

To expand somewhat on that point it was Harold Godwinsons military prowess that had kept England free from Celtic invasions; St. Edward owed his throne to the support of the Godwinson family. Edward by comparison (except amongst the pious), was regarded as a Normophile, dotard, fool, cuckold and worse; his saintly activities etc. may have given him a good press in Rome but in England they waited for him to hurry up a die, not least of his sins in English eyes was his supposed promise to William to let him have the throne after his death, being childless it was not his to give, that would be decided by the Moot.

There was one other candidate for Englands throne at the time of Edwards death, Edgar the Athling, but as he was a 10 yr old child who was living in Hungary or Bohemia it was not practical, given the threats to England from Norway, Normandy & and of course, as always, the Celts, for the Moot to consider him, England needed a strong popular King now, they got that in Harold.

So yes I do consider Harold II in the ‘Line of Kings’, when you get time read up on him, Warrior & diplomat he would have made a good and popular king, something ‘the Bastard’ was not.

All the Best
Peter