HAR 
ot mas, named Roux, who made himfelf duke of Nor- 
ma 
“a letters of the French ces have ufually this - 
claufe, Non obffant clameur de haro, &c. 
The haro_ had anciently fuch vat power, ‘ade a poor man 
ofthe city of Caen, named Affelin, in virtue hereof, arrelted 
the corple of William the Conqueror, in the middle of the 
funeral proceffion, till fuch time as his fon Henry: had paid 
the value of the land in aa which'was that whereon 
the chapel was built where he wa interred. 
eda in Geography, a nee ifland in the North fea, 
near the coa wa at. 62° §2', 
HAROERFREST, a {mall ifland in the North fea, near 
‘the coalt of Norway. N. lat. 70° 30’. 
. HAROLD 1.,:in Biography, 
bequeathed to uve by his father Canute in the year 1035. 
His countrymen, tl ye Danes, maintained him in the fucceifion, 
though a ftrong pay , beaded. by earl Godwin, declared for 
Hardic canute. Haro ld gained over his moft powerful enemy, 
had the crown of England 
Ethelred ik. Queen 
2 ee ys Dae a reign of four years es this prince, 
: dale accomplifhments alo 
of Hi 
gave fo bad a fpecimen of his charatter, and whofe bo- 
one are known to us by his appellation 
arefoot, which he acquired from his agility in running 
and walking. He died on the 14th of April 1039. Hume’ s 
Hitt. vol. 1. 
Harotp IL, king of England, fecond fon of the famous 
Godwin, earl oh Kent and Weffex, was, in the elevation of - ¢a 
that —_ under Edward the Confeffor, made duke of Eatt 
rien 
After the death of his ~ pea - 1052, 
is acai 
Harold « 
fonts and, - 
will aie 
HAR ¥ 
of the duke of Normandy with a powerful h # . 
Thither — —— _ 
ane 
oak bravery at the s was gaine 
by William dukeof Natmnaisdy the great and decifive victory 
of Hattings, after a battle that was fought from ‘morning 
till night, and which feemed worthy, by the heroic valour 
difplayed by both armies, and by both commanders, to de- 
a the fate of a mighty kingdom, The dead body of the 
cing was brought to William, who ae oufly reftored it to 
his mother without ranfom; to himfelf the crown of ee 
= d fell as the reward of his valour. Hume's Hut. ¥ 
e Hastinas. 
“HARON- ADAH, in Geography, a town of Perl in 
Irak ; 30 miles W. of Kirmantfhe 
HARONIA, a town sf the Arabian Irak ; 45 N. of 
Bagdad. 
HA ROUE!, a town af rite; in the department of the 
a canton, in the diftrid o 
The a vas 
commander of the faithful, acquired cee aie a renown 
as the leader of an expedition fent by his father againit the 
Greek emprefs Irene, in which he laid =~ feveral of the 
Affatic provinces of the empire, {prea n alarm to~Con- 
ftantinople itfelf, and compelled the omtprele to purchale 
peace bya tribute. | Five years after this expedition Haroua 
afcended the throne of his father and elder brother; and be- 
moft powerful and vigorous monarch of his race, 
me the 
illuftrious in the Weft, as the ally of Charlemagne, a 
miliar to moft of our youthful readers, as the } 
of the Arabian = 
was conferrec 
ied 24 tual ‘4 
"The title of Al Rafhid, a 
Ke + mother. caus 
| orn coun. ene ceo a foale- ween reply.” - Tt-was indeed weitte 
_othis nore at an end, ss Ss eg received advice of the ars of blood ts fire on the plains of Phrygi# Nel 
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