England: King Edward the Confessor enthroned (r. 1042-1066) and Harold Godwinson at Winchester as depicted in Scene 1 of the Bayeux Tapestry,1070-1077

England: King Edward the Confessor enthroned (r. 1042-1066) and Harold Godwinson at Winchester as depicted in Scene 1 of the Bayeux Tapestry,1070-1077

Edward the Confessor(1003 5 January 1066), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England, and usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.

. Between 1042 and 1052 Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey in London to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was not completed until around 1090 but was consecrated on 28 December 1065.

. The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is found in the Bayeux Tapestry.

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