The deathbed of King Edward the Confessor, and passing of the crown to Harold Godwinson, and his coronation on a throne with Archbishop Stigand. At right, the comet of Easter 1066 surprises and shocks a crowd. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruces The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.
The deathbed of King Edward the Confessor, and passing of the crown to Harold Godwinson, and his coronation on a throne with Archbishop Stigand. At right, the comet of Easter 1066 surprises and shocks a crowd. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruces The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.