The coins in the bundle were minted between 1036 and 1044, dating back to the reigns of Harold I, Harthacnut, and Edward the Confessor. This particular time was one of uncertainty—wealthier ...

The death of Harthacnut in Lambeth Everyone knows Edward the Confessor — the king who founded Westminster Abbey and whose death set in motion the Norman invasion and the Battle of Hastings.

Now Harthacnut became king only to die at about the age of 25 in 1042. So it was that Edward, Emma of Normandy's second son by Aethelred became King Edward. This was Edward the Confessor.

But when Harthacnut died after a short reign in 1042, the English selected Harthacnut's Anglo-Saxon half-brother, Edward the Confessor, as king instead.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS were baffled after finding what they believed to be the lost body of an ancient Viking king deep beneath a church.