Following the death of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edward the Confessor">Edward the Confessor</a> on the previous day, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witan" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Witan">Witan</a> meets to confirm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Godwinson" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Harold Godwinson">Harold Godwinson</a> as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Norman conquest of England">Norman conquest of England</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_6#cite_note-1" id="mwFQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFg">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFFreeman1873"><a href="./Edward_Augustus_Freeman" id="mwCGc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edward Augustus Freeman">Freeman, Edward Augustus</a> (1873). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yc7ZAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PR7" id="mwCGg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCGk">The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results</i></a>. Clarendon Press for Macmillan and Company, New York. p.<span id="mwCGo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>12.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwCGs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+History+of+the+Norman+Conquest+of+England%3A+Its+Causes+and+Its+Results&amp;rft.pages=12&amp;rft.pub=Clarendon+Press+for+Macmillan+and+Company%2C+New+York&amp;rft.date=1873&amp;rft.aulast=Freeman&amp;rft.aufirst=Edward+Augustus&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dyc7ZAAAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPR7&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+6"></span></span>