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	Tostig - LoveToKnow 1911
		Declaring Tostig an outlaw and choosing Morkere in his stead, the rebels marched southwards and were met at Oxford by Earl Harold, who, rather against the will of the king, granted their demands.
		Tostig sailed to Flanders and thence to Normandy, where he offered his services to Duke William, who was related to his wife and who was preparing for his invasion of England.
		Tostig's two sons appear to have taken refuge in Norway, and his widow Judith married Welf, duke of Bavaria.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tostig (327 words)

	Tostig - Encyclopedia.com
		Made earl of Northumbria in 1055, Tostig jointly invaded (1063) Wales with his brother Harold (later King Harold of England).
		The Northumbrians revolted against Tostig's severe rule in 1065 and chose Morcar, brother of the earl of Mercia, to be their earl.
		Tostig and his ally were killed by Tostig's brother Harold at Stamford Bridge.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tostig.html (952 words)

	The Buildup To The Battle
		Tostig, as mentioned earlier, was declared an exile and had departed, only to return some time later, undertaking attacks on the English coastline.
		It is first thought that Tostig tried to make an alliance with William especially as he had been exiled to Flanders and was the husband of Judith, the daughter of Count Balduin of Flanders.
		Tostig arrived with about 60 ships and men and managed to recruit others from England, mostly from the town of Sandwich, which he occupied.
	www.battle1066.com /buildup.shtml (4165 words)

	Essential Norman Conquest - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tostig was the fourth child of Godwin, earl of Wessex and his wife Gytha.
		Tostig was banished with the rest of his family by Edward the Confessor in 1051 but returned with them to invade England the next year and was restored to his earldom of.
		It is said that Tostig was offered a truce if he would submit to Harold before the battle, but the rebel demanded to know what his ally Harald could have.
	www.essentialnormanconquest.com /encyclopedia/godwinsson_tostig.htm (231 words)

	Tostig - LoveToKnow 1911
		Declaring Tostig an outlaw and choosing Morkere in his stead, the rebels marched southwards and were met at Oxford by Earl Harold, who, rather against the will of the king, granted their demands.
		Tostig sailed to Flanders and thence to Normandy, where he offered his services to Duke William, who was related to his wife and who was preparing for his invasion of England.
		Tostig's two sons appear to have taken refuge in Norway, and his widow Judith married Welf, duke of Bavaria.
	1911encyclopedia.org /Tostig (327 words)

	The Battle of Hastings according to Orderic Vitalis
		Harold, king of Norway, and Tostig, with a powerful fleet set sail over the wide sea, and, steering for England with a favourable aparctic, or north wind, landed in Yorkshire, which was the first object of their invasion.
		Tostig arrived first at the rendezvous in the mouth of the Humber with fifty ships but was driven off by Earl Edwin, and being afterwards joined by the king of Norway on the coast of Scotland, the united fleets sailed up the Humber to the neighbourhood of York.
		The battle of Stamford Bridge, in which Harold of Norway and Tostig fell, was fought on the eve of St. Matthew, 20th of September.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Orderic.html (2740 words)

	Treachery! Earl Tostig plots with King Hardrada
		Tostig was the son of Earl Godwin of Wessex, and brother of Harold, was born in about 1025.
		Tostig's rule was tyrannical and in 1065 he was replaced by Morcar, Harold's brother-in-law.
		Tostig was banished from the country and fled to Flanders.
	www.battle-of-hastings-1066.org.uk /treachery-tostig-plots-with-king-hardrada.htm (493 words)

	Earl Tostig
		Tostig, the son of Earl Godwin of Wessex, and brother of
		Tostig imposed new laws and all captured robbers were punished with mutilation or death.
		In 1061 Tostig and his wife Judith, and Gyrth went as pilgrims to Rome, where they were received by Pope Nicholas II.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /MEDtostig.htm (671 words)

	Gwerin Y Gwyr - The Battle of Stamford Bridge
		Teenagers were appointed to the major parts of Tostig's earldom: York went to Morcar, the brother of earl Edwin of Mercia, and Northampton to Waltheof, son of the previous Earl of Northumbria, Siward the Dane.
		Tostig arrived in the Channel that summer, and got supplies on the Isle of Wight - his arrival off Sandwich coincided with King Harold's massive mobilization against a Norman invasion: and so he prudently disappeared from Kent and headed north.
		Tostig quickly made arrangements with the Norse king (a wise move, as those who did not make arrangements with King Harald tended to find that their independent-mindedness, however principled, was rather brief) and the fleet struck south.
	www.gwerin.org.uk /articles/stamford_bridge.htm (667 words)

	Godwins
		It is known that she was close to her brother Tostig, and that her fortunes followed those of her family.
		The earl fled to Flanders with Gythha, Tostig and Sweyn.
		Tostig then travelled to Norway, where he spent months trying to persuade Harald Hardrada to invade, first to restore the earldom, then as legitimate king (in succession to Harthaknut).
	www.geocities.com /egfrothos/Godwins.html (3481 words)

	HAROLD II (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After a revolt against Harold's brother Tostig, earl of Northumbria (1024?–66), Harold was forced to banish Tostig, an action that restored peace but created a bitter enmity between the two brothers.
		William immediately asserted his claim, which was supported by the dispossessed Tostig and Harold III (Hard Ruler) of Norway.
		Tostig and his Norwegian ally invaded Yorkshire and, after several military successes, were routed by the English forces at Stamford Bridge on Sept. 25, 1066; both were killed.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=211443 (866 words)

	Tostig Godwinson: Brother and Traitor to the King
		Tostig was declared an outlaw and fled the country.
		Tostig took his own small army and attacked the North of England, only to be defeated by Earl Morcar and the Northumbrians.
		Tostig sailed for Scotland and gathered an army of Scots, Flemmish, and mercenaries.
	britishhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/tostig_godwinson (637 words)

	Battle of Fulford, 20 September 1066 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In exile Tostig may have conspired with one or both of William of Normandy and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, the two other potential claimants to the English throne.
		According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Tostig landed on the Isle of Wight soon after the appearance of Halley’s Comet at the end of April, with what was probably the smallest army involved in the events of 1066.
		Tostig and his sixty ships landed in Lindsey (Lincolnshire), where he was attacked and defeated by Morcar and Edwin.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_fulford.html (831 words)

	The Story of Edgar Atheling (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tostig (Harold's brother) had been made Earl of Northumbria, and although there was peace in that area for some years, Tostig was not popular in the north.
		However, Tostig sailed away, moved northwards and landed near the Humber but he was driven off by Earl Edwin, and likewise further north by Earl Morcar.
		After both King Hardrada and Tostig were killed the routed invaders sued for peace, and the remnants of their army sailed away across the North Sea.
	www.boldbelvoir.org.uk /ayling/edgar.htm (3868 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tostig (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Made earl of Northumbria in 1055, Tostig jointly invaded (1063) Wales with his brother Harold (later King Harold of England).
		The Northumbrians revolted against Tostig's severe rule in 1065 and chose Morcar, brother of the earl of Mercia, to be their earl.
		Tostig and his ally were killed by Tostig's brother Harold at Stamford Bridge.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tostig.html (207 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tostig was born the third son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha ThorkelsdÃ³ttir.
		Tostig was outlawed a short time later, possibly early in November, because he refused to accept his deposition as commanded by Edward.
		On September 25, 1066, King Harold II of England (Tostig's brother) marched his army from the south of England where they were awaiting the Normans up to York and halted the Norwegian invasion at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, in which Tostig and Harald III were both killed.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tostig_Godwinson (733 words)

	Tostig Godwinson - Definition, explanation
		Tostig Godwinson (~1026- September 25, 1066), Earl of Northumbria, was son to Godwin, Earl of Wessex and his second wife Gytha Thorkelsdóttir.
		Tostig married Judith (Fausta) of Flanders (1030- March 5, 1094), daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders and half-sister of Baldwin V of Flanders.
		Tostig had joined forces with Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, and they invaded England.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/to/tostig_godwinson.php (262 words)

	History Bookshop.com: Tostig, Earl of Northumbria
		Tostig was the third son of Earl Godwin of Wessex and younger brother to Harold Godwinson, later to become Harold II.
		In 1051 Tostig's father, and the rest of his powerful family, was exiled by Edward the Confessor.
		However, Tostig was unpopular and in 1065 the Northumbrians rebelled against him.
	www.historybookshop.com /articles/people/politicians-courtiers/tostig-earl-northumbria.asp (183 words)

	The History Guy: Tostig's Rebellion (1066)
		Tostig's Rebellion—(1066): Tostig Godwinson, the younger half-brother of King Harald, sought to reclaim his lost Earldom of Northumbria.
		Tostig's forces won the battle of Fulford, but the combined forces of Tostig and Hardrada were defeated by King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25, 1066.
		The significance of Tostig's rebellion and his alliance with Harald of Norway is that in crushing the rebellion and the Norwegian invasion, King Harold's forces were in a weakened state when they faced the army of William the Conqueror at Hastings less than a month later.
	www.historyguy.com /tostig_rebellion.html (246 words)

	The Straight Dope Mailbag: The Straight Dope Mailbag: In the Elton John song "Levon," who is Alvin Tostig?
		To put it another way, Levon is the son that Alvin Tostig had that day.
		Tracing the name "Alvin Tostig" is fairly straightforward, but with a bit of a twist.
		But Taupin was from Wessex and there was a historical "Tostig," who was the Earl of Wessex back in the 1040s.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mlevon.html (497 words)

	Harold II, Godwinson (1066)
		In 1063, supported by his brother, Tostig, Earl of Northumbria, he commanded a brilliantly conducted campaign against the Welsh.
		He was successful in bringing them into submission, and by doing so, solidified his reputation as an able general.
		Harold's brother, Tostig, had been exiled since the autumn of 1065 and had joined with Harald Hardrada of Norway.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon21.html (589 words)

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