Following the death of Harold II at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Hastings">Battle of Hastings</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_the_Ætheling" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edgar the Ætheling">Edgar the Ætheling</a> is proclaimed King of England by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witan" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Witan">Witan</a>; he is never crowned, and concedes power to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a> two months later.<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="./October_15#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" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFAshley1998">Ashley, Michael (1998). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tz6gAAAAMAAJ" id="mwBuo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBus">British Monarchs: The Complete Genealogy, Gazetteer, and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings &amp; Queens of Britain</i></a>. Robinson. p.<span id="mwBuw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>497. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBu0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBu4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781854875044" id="mwBu8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781854875044"><bdi id="mwBvA">9781854875044</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBvE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=British+Monarchs%3A+The+Complete+Genealogy%2C+Gazetteer%2C+and+Biographical+Encyclopedia+of+the+Kings+%26+Queens+of+Britain&amp;rft.pages=497&amp;rft.pub=Robinson&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.isbn=9781854875044&amp;rft.aulast=Ashley&amp;rft.aufirst=Michael&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dtz6gAAAAMAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+15"></span></span>