The background to the battle Hostile_encounter was the death of the childless King Edward the Confessor in January 1066 , which set up a succession struggle between several claimants to his throne .

The last decades of the 18th century were marked Recording by continual strife between rival claimants to the Peacock Throne .

The group , calling themselves the `` Royal Security Forces of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo '' , was sent Sending by Jamalul Kiram III , one of the claimants to the throne of the Sultanate of Sulu .