In 1066 King Edward the Confessor, the leader of England passed. After his death there were three people competing for the throne, Duke William of Normandy, Harald Hardrada and Harold Godwinson. They all had different views on who would be worthy of the throne but there was one person that I felt had the best claim, Duke William of Normandy he was promised as Edwards successor in 1051 by Edward himself. William also got the Pope to support him. This gave him a huge advantage as the Pope was the head of the church and very powerful as he had the support of all the people and was extremely wealthy. Duke William also claimed that in 1064 he captured Harold Godwinson when visiting Normandy and when in Normandy William made Harold Godwinson make an oath to help him in his aim to be King of England. Harold Godwinson was called an oath breaker because he was competing with william not helping him and back them it was a big deal to break an oath. This made the people of England take a second thought about having Harold Godwinson as their King because at that time no one wanted an oath breaker as their King. Duke William of Normandy had three strong main claims to the throne and he even had a claim that made people over look Harold Godwinson. In my opinion he would had been the one that the people of england because of his claims.
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