Harold Godwinson’s reign as the last Anglo-Saxon ... It was in this chaos that Harold fell, famously struck by an arrow to the eye, according to the tapestry, though some accounts suggest ...

At the top I saw the King of England, Harold Godwinson, surrounded by his Huscarls with their big axes and I remembered one theory of how he died. An arrow through the eye. I ran up the hill.

Harold Godwinson: Son of Godwine and Earl of Wessex. Harold was very powerful by 1066. He was possibly richer than the King, and had established alliances with all the major magnates of England.