The most consequential battle in English history. Harold, having marched his exhausted army south from Stamford Bridge, faced William's Norman-Franco-Flemish force on Senlac Hill. After a day-long battle lasting from morning to dusk, Harold was killed — traditionally shot in the eye by an arrow — and the English shield-wall broke. The Norman Conquest that followed transformed English language, law, aristocracy, church, and culture. Nothing before or since has so fundamentally remade England.
Harold and his brothers Gyrth and Leofwine killed; English thegnly class virtually wiped out
This battlefield is listed on the Register of Historic Battlefields — a national designation identifying Britain's most significant battle sites for protection and further research. Reference: ENG 3.
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