Question: How many times was the who national "fyrd" called out between 1046 and 1065?
About the article "Battle of Hastings", section "English army and Harold's preparations".

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The English army was organised along regional lines, with the "fyrd", or local levy, serving under a local magnate – whether an earl, bishop, or sheriff.
The "fyrd" was composed of men who owned their own land, and were equipped by their community to fulfil the king's demands for military forces.
For every five hides, or units of land nominally capable of supporting one household, one man was supposed to serve.
It appears that the hundred was the main organising unit for the "fyrd".
As a whole, England could furnish about 14,000 men for the "fyrd", when it was called out.
The "fyrd" usually served for two months, except in emergencies.
It was rare for the whole national "fyrd" to be called out; between 1046 and 1065 it was only done three times, in 1051, 1052, and 1065.
The king also had a group of personal armsmen, known as housecarls, who formed the backbone of the royal forces.
Some earls also had their own forces of housecarls.
Thegns, the local landowning elites, fought either with the royal housecarls or attached themselves to the forces of an earl or other magnate.
The "fyrd" and the housecarls both fought on foot, with the major difference between them being the housecarl's superior armour.
The English army does not appear to have had a significant number of archers.
Harold had spent mid-1066 on the south coast with a large army and fleet waiting for William to invade.
The bulk of his forces were militia who needed to harvest their crops, so on 8 September Harold dismissed the militia and the fleet.
Learning of the Norwegian invasion he rushed north, gathering forces as he went, and took the Norwegians by surprise, defeating them at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September.
Harald of Norway and Tostig were killed, and the Norwegians suffered such great losses that only 24 of the original 300 ships were required to carry away the survivors.
The English victory came at great cost, as Harold's army was left in a battered and weakened state.
In Anglo-Saxon times, defences were based upon the "fyrd".
It was a militia called up from the districts threatened with attack.
Service in the fyrd was usually of short duration and participants were expected to provide their own arms and provisions.
The origins of the "fyrd" can be traced back to at least the seventh century, and it is likely that the obligation of Englishmen to serve in the fyrd dates from before its earliest appearance in written records.
Alfred the Great is credited with the development of the "fyrd" system together with the building of "burhs", the development of a cavalry force, and the building of a fleet.
Each element of the system was meant to remedy defects in the West Saxon military establishment exposed by the Viking invasions.
If under the existing system he could not assemble forces quickly enough to intercept mobile Viking raiders, the obvious answer was to have a standing field force.
If this entailed transforming the West Saxon fyrd from a sporadic levy of king's men and their retinues into a mounted standing army, so be it.
If his kingdom lacked strongpoints to impede the progress of an enemy army, he would build them.
If the enemy struck from the sea, he would counter them with his own naval power.
Characteristically, all of Alfred's innovations were firmly rooted in traditional West Saxon practice, drawing as they did upon the three so-called ‘common burdens' of bridge work, fortress repair and service on the king's campaigns that all holders of bookland and royal loanland owed the Crown.
Where Alfred revealed his genius was in designing the field force and burhs to be parts of a coherent military system.
Neither Alfred's reformed fyrd nor his burhs alone would have afforded a sufficient defence against the Vikings; together, however, they robbed the Vikings of their major strategic advantages: surprise and mobility.
The "fyrd" was used heavily by King Harold in 1066, for example in resisting invasion by Harold Hardrada and William of Normandy.
The historian David Sturdy has cautioned about regarding the "fyrd" as a precursor to a modern national army composed of all ranks of society, describing it as a "ridiculous fantasy":The persistent old belief that peasants and small farmers gathered to form a national army or "fyrd" is a strange delusion dreamt up by antiquarians in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries to justify universal military conscription.
Henry I of England, the Anglo-Norman king who promised at his coronation to restore the laws of Edward the Confessor and who married a Scottish princess with West Saxon royal forbears, called up the "fyrd" to supplement his feudal levies, as an army of all England, as Orderic Vitalis reports, to counter the abortive invasions of his brother Robert Curthose, both in the summer of 1101 and in autumn 1102. 
The Germanic tribes who invaded Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries relied upon the unarmoured infantry supplied by their tribal levy, or fyrd, and it was upon this system that the military power of the several kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England depended.
The fyrd was a local militia in the Anglo-Saxon shire, in which all freemen had to serve, those who refused military service were subject to fines or loss of their land.
According to the law code of King Ine of Wessex, issued in about 694:If a nobleman who holds land neglects military service, he shall pay 120 shillings and forfeit his land; a nobleman who holds no land shall pay 60 shillings; a commoner shall pay a fine of 30 shillings for neglecting military service.
Wessex's history of failures preceding his success in 878 emphasised to Alfred that the traditional system of battle he had inherited played to the Danes' advantage.
While both the Anglo-Saxons and the Danes attacked settlements to seize wealth and other resources, they employed very different strategies.
In their raids, the Anglo-Saxons traditionally preferred to attack head-on by assembling their forces in a shield wall, advancing against their target and overcoming the oncoming wall marshaled against them in defence.
In contrast, the Danes preferred to choose easy targets, mapping cautious forays designed to avoid risking all their accumulated plunder with high-stake attacks for more.
Alfred determined their strategy was to launch smaller scaled attacks from a secure and reinforced defensible base to which they could retreat should their raiders meet strong resistance.
These bases were prepared in advance, often by capturing an estate and augmenting its defences with surrounding ditches, ramparts and palisades.
Once inside the fortification, Alfred realised, the Danes enjoyed the advantage, better situated to outlast their opponents or crush them with a counter-attack as the provisions and stamina of the besieging forces waned.
The means by which they marshaled the forces to defend against marauders also left the Anglo-Saxons vulnerable to the Vikings.
It was the responsibility of the shire fyrd to deal with local raids.
The king could call up the national militia to defend the kingdom, however in the case of hit and run raids, by Vikings, problems with communication and raising supplies meant that the national militia could not be mustered quickly enough as it was only after the raids were underway that a call went out to landowners to gather men for battle, and large regions could be devastated before the newly assembled fyrd arrived.
And although the landowners were obliged to the king to supply these men when called, during the attacks in 878, many of them opportunistically abandoned their king and collaborated with Guthrum.
With these lessons in mind, Alfred capitalised on the relatively peaceful years immediately following his victory at Edington by focusing on an ambitious restructuring of his kingdom's military defences.
On a trip to Rome, Alfred had stayed with Charles the Bald and it is possible that he may have studied how the Carolingian kings had dealt with the Viking problem, and learning from their experience was able to put together a system of taxation and defence for his own kingdom.
Also, there had been a system of fortifications in pre-Viking Mercia that may have also been an influence.
So when the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries. 
The Germanic tribes who invaded Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries relied upon the unarmoured infantry supplied by their tribal levy, or fyrd and it was upon this system that the military power of the several kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England depended.
In Anglo Saxon documents military service might be expressed as fyrd-faru, fyrd-foereld, fyrd-socne, or simply fyrd.
The fyrd was a local militia in the Anglo-Saxon shire, in which all freemen had to serve, those who refused military service were subject to fines or loss of their land.
According to the laws of Ine:If a nobleman who holds land neglects military service, he shall pay 120 shillings and forfeit his land; a nobleman who holds no land shall pay 60 shillings; a commoner shall pay a fine of 30 shillings for neglecting military service.
It was the responsibility of the shire fyrd to deal with local raids.
The king could call up the national militia to defend the kingdom, however in the case of hit and run raids, particularly by Vikings, problems with communication and raising supplies meant that the national militia could not be mustered quickly enough so was rarely summoned.
Historians are divided about the people who were part of the fyrd.
Was it the body of peasants as distinct from the thegns and mercenaries?
Was it the peasants and thegns together?
Or was it a combination of all three?
Initially the force probably would have been entirely infantry.
However, from Alfred's time there would have been a force of mounted infantry, who could gallop swiftly to any trouble spot, dismount, and drive off any raiding force.
Also, after Alfred's reorganisation there were two elements to his army.
The first known as the "select-fyrd" was, most likely, a strictly royal force of mounted infantry consisting mainly of thegns and their retainers supported by earls and reeves.
The second would be the local militia or "general-fyrd" responsible for the defence of the shire and borough district and would consist of freemen, such as small tenant farmers and their local thegns and reeves.
In the 11th century the infantry was strengthened by the addition of an elite force of housecarls.
The Old English term that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle uses for the Danish Army is ""here""; Ine of Wessex in his law code, issued in about 694, provides a definition of ""here"" as "an invading army or raiding party containing more than thirty five men", yet the terms ""here"" and ""fyrd"" are used interchangeably in later sources in respect of the English militia.
Tenants in Anglo-Saxon England had a threefold obligation based on their landholding; the so-called ‘common burdens' of military service, fortress work, and bridge repair.
Even when a landholder was granted exemptions from other royal services, these three duties were reserved.
An example of this is in a charter of 858 where Æthelberht of Kent made an exchange of land with his thegn Wulflaf , it stipulates that Wulflaf's land should be free of all royal services and secular burdens except military service, the building of bridges, and fortress work.
According to Cnut's laws: 
The fyrd, in early Anglo-Saxon times, was an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
Service in the fyrd was usually of short duration and participants were expected to provide their own arms and provisions.
The composition of the fyrd evolved over the years, particularly as a reaction to raids and invasions by the Vikings.
The system of defence and conscription was reorganised during the reign of Alfred the Great, who set up 33 fortified towns (or burhs) in his kingdom of Wessex.
The amount of taxation required to maintain each town was laid down in a document known as the Burghal Hidage.
Each lord had his individual holding of land assessed in hides.
Based on his land holding, he had to contribute men and arms to maintain and defend the burhs.
Non compliance of this requirement could lead to severe penalties.
Ultimately the fyrd consisted of a nucleus of experienced soldiers that would be supplemented by ordinary villagers and farmers from the shires who would accompany their lords.