The witan could seek to prevent autocracy and carry on government during interregnums, but ultimately the witenagemot answered to the king.
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There was no single seat of a witenagemot, it being held where the king was, who typically had no single fixed court either.
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In it, Edgar the Peaceful directed the Witenagemot at William I similarly refer to and uphold the standard measures of his predecessors without naming them.
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Instead the Witenagemot, the assembly of the kingdom's leading notables, would convene after a king's death to select a successor.
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Following Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings against the invading Normans in October, the Witenagemot assembled in London and elected Edgar king.
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King Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark invaded England in 1013, drove out King �thelred the Unready, and was proclaimed King of England by the Witenagemot.
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This arrangement ended when the Normans invaded in 1066, replacing the witenagemot with the " curia regis ", or king's court.
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At that time succession to the English throne was not by primogeniture but was decided jointly by the king and by an assembly of nobility, the Witenagemot.
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In essence, it was more-or-less identical to the witenagemot of Anglo-Saxon England in both its composition of officials and its purpose.
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In some cases, weak kings ( such as Ethelred the Unready ) were dependent on the witenagemot, while others used it as simply a group of advisers.
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