1050

Events 1050s – The real Macbeth dies in battle

1057 The real Macbeth dies in battle  Events 1053: the Norman commander Humphrey of Hauteville is victorious in the Battle of Civitate against the Lombards and the papal coalition led by Rudolf of Benevento; Pope Leo IX himself is captured by the Normans. Edward the Confessor invites William of Normandy to England. It is at this point that it is thought that Edward promises the English throne to William in the event of his death Battle of Mortemer: The Normans, led by Duke William the Conqueror, defeat a French army (near Mortemer), as it is caught pillaging and plundering. 1054: the Great Schism, in which the Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern Orthodox churches separated from each […]

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