1. By the reign of Edward the Confessor royal writs were authenticated by having a two-sided seal attached.

2. Edward the Confessor was a cousin of the Conqueror, had more Danish and Norman in his ancestry than Anglo-Saxon.

3. Emma was the name of the mother of Edward the confessor.

4. Edward the Confessor had designated William as his successor in 1051.

5. It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor, which began in 1042.

6. The oldest is probably the sapphire, which is set to been one of the ring by Edward the Confessor nearly a thousand years ago.