Battle of Hastings

Following the death of Edward the Confessor, William, Duke of Normandy (later William I, also known as William the Conqueror) asserted a claim to the English throne. On the 14th October 1066, the defending English army, also called the Anglo-Saxon army, led by King Harold, engaged invading French on Senlac Hill near Hastings, England, which would come to be known as the Battle of Hastings. The French won decisively and Harold was killed, effectively ending Anglo-Saxon rule of England and establishing the Norman line of monarchs.

The battle was memorialised in the Bayeux Tapestry.