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(Earl of Wessex) Godwin GODWIN #63908

____ - 15 APR 1053

Personal Information

  • TITLE: Earl of Wessex
  • DEATH: 15 APR 1053, Winchester, Hampshire, England

Notes

Founder of the House of Godwin.

Godwin of Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman who became one of the most powerful earls in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great (King of England from 1016 to 1035) and his successors. Cnut made Godwin the first Earl of Wessex (c. 1020). Godwin was the father of King Harold II (r. January - October 1066) and of Edith of Wessex, who in 1045 married King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042-1066).

Parents

Father: Wulfnoth CILD #77053

Family 1 :

Wife: Gytha THORKELSDÓTTIR

Children:

  1.   Edith of GODWIN #63648
  2.  +Harold II GODWIN #63909
  3.   Tostig GODWIN #76609
  4.   Sweyn GODWIN #76610
  5.   Gyrth GODWIN #76611
  6.   Leofwine GODWIN #76612
  7.   Wulfnoth GODWIN #76613
 
 
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