Anglorum

Twelfth-century Anglo-Norman histories, such as William of Malmesbury 's Gesta Regum Anglorum and Henry of Huntingdon 's Historia Anglorum recount that Harold died by an arrow wound to his head.

This title was earned mainly through his five volume book called "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum", which translates as "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People".

At other times he uses the term rex Anglorum (king of the English), which presumably meant both Anglo-Saxons and Danes.

Boniface also gave Justus a letter congratulating him on the conversion of King "Aduluald" (probably King Eadbald of Kent), a letter which is included in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Kirby, The Earliest English Kings, pp. 17–18 Bede also called him Rex Anglorum, the 'King of the Angles', a term that Rædwald's contemporaries would have used for their overlord.

Patrick Sims-Williams is more skeptical of the account, suggesting that Bede's Canterbury source, for which he relied on for his account of Hengist and Horsa in his work Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, had confused two separate traditions.

Royal household and ira et malevolentia King John presenting a church, painted c.1250-59 by Matthew Paris in his Historia Anglorum John's royal household was based around several groups of followers.

The Schola Anglorum, which was destroyed by fire in 847, was restored by Benedict.

This endured until 927, when Æthelstan conquered Viking York, and adopted the title rex anglorum (king of the English), in recognition of his rule over the whole of England.

While the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle refer to the brother as Horsa, in the Historia Brittonum his name is simply Hors.