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King Harold II was a strong ruler and general even though he only held the crown for nine months before he was killed in battle. Harold's mother held strong connections with Canute, and Harold's father was a close ally of Canute's. In about 1044 Harold's father obtained the Earldom of East Anglia, Essex, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire for Harold. In 1052 Harold invaded England and forced the king to restore his father and family to there previous positions; though this fathers restoration was short lived because he died in 1053. Harold then became Earl.

Harold established himself as the main preeminent figure in England by the mid 1060's. Harold was elected by the English nobility and crowned and anointed king at Winchester Abbey by

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