Neither William nor Harold had any blood kinship to the English throne through the House of Wessex (or of Cerdic), unless the tale that the Godwins were descended in the male line from Alfred the Great's elder brother and predecessor, Ethelred, which most historians think to be unlikely. So IMO the claims of both men were equally dubious.
Neither William nor Harold had any blood kinship to the English throne through the House of Wessex (or of Cerdic), unless the tale that the Godwins were descended in the male line from Alfred the Great's elder brother and predecessor, Ethelred, which most historians think to be unlikely. So IMO the claims of both men were equally dubious.
Neither William nor Harold had any blood kinship to the English throne through the House of Wessex (or of Cerdic), unless the tale that the Godwins were descended in the male line from Alfred the Great's elder brother and predecessor, Ethelred, which most historians think to be unlikely. So IMO the claims of both men were equally dubious.