Which King of England (after Harold 2nd) was killed by an arrow?
Stoke Lyne of England in 1066. When Tostig's elder brother Harold Godwinson was crowned King Harold II in January 1066, Earl Tostig encouraged Harald III of Norway to invade England, but in September Harold II defeated the Norwegian army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge and both Harald and Tostig were killed in the fighting. The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Stoke Lyne's feudal overlord was Walter Giffard, who William II made 1st Earl of Buckingham in 1097. The manor remained part of the honour of Giffard until Walter Giffard, 2nd Earl of Buckingham died without an heir in 1164. It
Harold Godwinson "Gesta Regum Anglorum" and Henry of Huntingdon's "Historia Anglorum" recount that Harold died by an arrow wound to his head. An earlier source, Amatus of Montecassino's "L'Ystoire de li Normant" ("History of the Normans"), written only twenty years after the battle of Hastings, contains a report of Harold being shot in the eye with an arrow, but this may be an early fourteenth-century addition. Later accounts reflect one or both of these two versions. A figure in the panel of the Bayeux Tapestry with the inscription "Harold Rex Interfectus Est" ("Harold the King is killed") is depicted gripping an arrow