Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. King & Conqueror explores the rise to power of Harold Godwinson and William, Duke of Normandy, but another key figure in the BBC ...

Emma of Normandy crossed the Channel to marry Æthelred the Unready and later Cnut the Great, and held ground in the tumult of early‑11th‑century England. Her sons would inherit the throne—and with ...

Ælfgifu of Northampton should have been Queen of England — but when Cnut married Emma of Normandy, a silent war began. While Emma secured coronation and legitimacy, Ælfgifu maneuvered in shadows, ...