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Succession Crisis - Coggle Diagram

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        1
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        I think this is the most important because an earl should not act like that and it would just make more people dis-like him because of what he has done to other people.
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        3
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        I ranked this at a 3 because it is in the middle of both. He should have been defending Northumbria whether he had a good relationship with the King of Scotland or not.
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        2
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        I ranked this as a 2 because it is very important thing to remember what a terrible thing he did, but there are more important things to think about.
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        5
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        I thought this would be the least important because it doesn't really tell you much about what Tostig did himself. It is just a fact.
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        4
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        I ranked this as 4 because it is not the least or the most important but it is less important than the middle one.
- - - - The only significant rival to the Godwin's left in England by the 1060's was Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia. The Godwin's were lords to many hundreds of thegns, making them powerful war-leaders.
    - - The Godwin's had made political marriages: Edith Godwin to King Edward, Harold to the wife of Llewelyn and to Edith the Fair of Mercia, Tostig to Judith of Flanders. The Danelaw permitted a man to have two wives, though some historians say Edith the Fair was Harold's mistress, not his wife.
    - - Extensive landholdings made the Godwin's very rich: almost equal to the king in wealth.
- - - - The Danelaw and the general law were different, this made it very hard for Tostig to remember and not to punish the wrong people for the wrong thing. Danelaw had it's similarities and it's differences, somethings meant the same thing but just had a different name, for example: the hundred was called wapentake and a hide was called a carucate.
    - - When Tostig became Earl of Northumbria in 1055 he raised the tax the Northumbrians had to pay. This called much resentment and hatred for Tostig, especially in the Danelaw regions, because they were used to paying lower taxes compared to everybody else, this is because the geld tax had originally been used to pay Vikings not to attack England.
    - - Because Tostig came from down south they had a lot of different laws and regulations to abide by. This is why Tostig made such bad mistakes, such as the raise in tax for the Northumbrians.
    - - Because Tostig had a relationship with Malcolm III, King of Scotland, he thought that he wouldn't have to stay in Northumbria and defend it from Scottish attacks. So when he did leave Northumbria unguarded, Malcom invaded and caused much destruction.
  - - - Furious that Harold had not backed him, Tostig angrily accused Harold of having conspired against him, saying that rising was a plot to replace him.
    - - Harold, like the king's other advisers, agreed that Tostig had pushed Northumbria too far: Tostig was to blame for the rising.
    - - It was very significant that the earls, led by Harold, failed to obey the King Edward's command. Earls were bound by oaths of loyalty to their king and they were supposed to act as his military leaders.
      - The refusal to lead an army against the rebels therefore shows that the power of the king could sometimes be challenged: if the king was weak and if it was in the interests of all the major earls act together.
    - - King Edward held a conference to decide what to do about the rising. The outcome was surprising. Instead of raising an army to march north and defeat the rebels, Harold instead met with them and passed on King Edward's agreement to their terms.