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Godwin of Wessex

Male 1001 - 1053  (52 years)


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  • Name Godwin of Wessex  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Born 1001  Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1051 
    Banished from the kingdom after staging an unsuccessful rebellion against King Edward III 
    Military 1052 
    Landed an invasion force in the south of England, received great popular support and the king had to restore his family in favor 
    Occupation Ealdorman in England 
    Occupation Earl of Wessex and Kent 
    Occupation Thane in Sussex 
    Died 15 Apr 1053  Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Old Minster, Winchester, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4449  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Wulfnoth Cild of Wessex,   b. 983,   d. 1015  (Age 32 years) 
    Family ID F11561  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Thyra Sveinsdóttir of Denmark,   b. 993,   d. 1018  (Age 25 years) 
    Married Bef 1007 
    Children 
     1. Driella of Wessex,   b. Abt 1007
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F5110  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Gytha Thorkelsdóttir,   b. 997, Halland, Sweden Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1019  Halland, Sweden Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Ædgyth of Wessex Queen of England,   b. 1019, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Dec 1075, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     2. Harold II Godwinson King of England,   b. Abt 1022, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Oct 1066, Senlac, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 44 years)
     3. Tostig Godwinson of Wessex,   b. Aft 1022, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Sep 1066, Battle of Stamford Bridge Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 43 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2252  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S751] Histoire de Normandie, Orderic Vital (traduction par Louis-François du Bois), (J.-L.-J. Brière, 68 rue Saint-André des Arts, Paris, 1825-1827), Volume 2, p. 111.

    2. [S629] Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Herausgegeben Von Detlev Schwennicke, (Verlag Von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Deutschland, éditions 1978 à 1993), Volume 2, p. 78.

    3. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume IX, p. 703.

    4. [S577] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Peter Townend and Hugh Massingberd, (One Hundred and Fifth Edition, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1970), 1.

    5. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 1B-22.