Who’s Who? To create your Battle of Hastings Who’s Who game, first print out this PDF. Glue the last two pages to thin sheets of cardboard (you could use a cereal box for this) and cut them out to create cards for each character. Then use the sheets below as your gaming boards – you can cross off the characters as you go!
Edgar Atheling Edith Swan Neck Edward the Eustace Gyrth Confessor Godwineson
Gytha Harald Hardrada Harold II Leofwine Matilda
Odo Queen Edith Robert Stephen Fitz Stigand Airard
Taillefer Tostig William de William Fitz William the Godwineson Warenne Osbern Conqueror Who’s Who?
Edgar Atheling Edith Swan Neck Edward the Eustace Gyrth Confessor Godwineson
Gytha Harald Hardrada Harold II Leofwine Matilda
Odo Queen Edith Robert Stephen Fitz Stigand Airard
Taillefer Tostig William de William Fitz William the Godwineson Warenne Osbern Conqueror EDGAR DITH ARD T YRTH E EDW HE USTACE G THELING AN NEC NFESSO E WINESO A SW K CO R GOD N
Nephew of Edward the She was King Harold’s When this English king died Count of Bolougne and Earl of East Anglia and Confessor and claimant to mistress and supposedly on 5 January 1066, it set off an ally of William the younger brother of King the English throne, but was identified his body after the chain of events that led Conqueror, he fought at Harold, he was killed at only 15 years old in 1066 the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Hastings the Battle of Hastings the Battle of Hastings
HARALD GYTHA AROLD II LEOFWINE MATILDA HARDRADA H
Wife of Earl Godwine and King of Norway, invaded Harold II was the last Leofwine, younger brother The Duchess of Normandy mother of King Harold, she England in September Anglo-Saxon king of of King Harold, was the and queen of England, was a tragic figure who 1066. Killed at the Battle England. He was killed Earl of Kent. He was killed she was the wife of lost four sons in 1066 of Stamford Bridge at the Battle of Hastings at the Battle of Hastings William the Conqueror ODO N ED OBERT STEPHEN TIGAND UEE ITH R AIRA S Q FITZ RD
Odo was the Bishop of Edith, a member of the Count of Mortain and Steersman or captain of Stigand was the Bayeux, the Earl of Kent, influential Godwine family, half-brother of William the William the Conqueror’s Archbishop of Canterbury and half-brother of was the wife of Edward Conqueror. Given Pevensey ship, rewarded with land and the person who William the Conqueror the Confessor Castle among other land in England after 1066 crowned King Harold
OSTIG LI LLIA IAM ILLEFE T WIL AM WI M ILL THE TA R WINESO AREN Z OSBE W NQUERO GOD N DE W NE FIT RN CO R
A Norman jongleur or Brother of Harold, invaded This loyal supporter of Cousin of William the Beat King Harold’s army minstrel who juggled his England in September William the Conqueror was Conqueror, rewarded with at the Battle of Hastings sword at the start of the 1066. Killed at the Battle rewarded with Castle Acre the Isle of Wight and to become the first ever Battle of Hastings of Stamford Bridge and Conisbrough made Earl of Hereford Norman king of England