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Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.
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Edgar Ætheling
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King's council in Anglo-Saxon England
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William the Conqueror
King of England (1066–1087) and Duke of Normandy (1035–1087)
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