Earl of Wessex & Kent, Godwin of Wessex

Birth Name Earl of Wessex & Kent, Godwin of Wessex 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a
Gramps ID I30802
Gender male
Age at Death unknown

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E41643] BET. 987 - 992 of Wessex, England  
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Death [E41644] 1053-04-15 Winchester, Hampshire, England  

Cause: Apoplexy.

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_FA1 [E41645]   An Anglo-Danish noble, he rose to power under Canute.  
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_FA2 [E41646]   Godwin supported the acession of Edward the Confessor after Canute’s death.  
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_FA3 [E41647]   Became a dominant figure Edward the Confessor’s royal gov't.  
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_FA4 [E41648]   In 1045 his daughter Edith married Edward.  
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_FA5 [E41649]   Overthrown in 1051 but regained his position by force in 1052.  
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_FA6 [E41650]   Suceeded by his son Harold II King of England.  
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_FA7 [E41651]   Thegn in Sussex, Ealdorman of Wessex 1018.  
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Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Cyld of Sussex, Wulfnoth of Sussex [I30805]about 9831015
         Earl of Wessex & Kent, Godwin of Wessex [I30802] BET. 987 - 992 1053-04-15

Families

    Family of Earl of Wessex & Kent, Godwin of Wessex and Thorkilsdottir, Gytha [F10950]
Married Wife Thorkilsdottir, Gytha [I30803] ( * about 1001 + ... )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E58212] BET. 1019 - 1020 Halland, Sweden  
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  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
of Wessex, Eadgyth (Edith) [I16871]
King of England, Harold II Godwineson [I30804]about 10221066-10-14
of Wessex, Tosig [I25907]1066

Narrative

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An Anglo-Danish noble, he rose to power under Canute, after whose death he supported the accession of Edward the Confessor & became a dominant figure in royal gov't. In 1045 his daughter married Edward. He was overthrown in 1051 but regained his position by force in 1052. He was succeeded by his son Harold, who also succeeded Edward, thus leading to the Norman conquest.

The key article on the proposed descent of Harold II from Aethelred I is David H. Kelley, "The House of Aethelred," in Lindsay S. Brooke, ed., Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday_ (Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, Ltd., Occasional Publication No. Two, 1989). As I posted earlier, the descent of land provides strong evidence for the descent of Harold II's father, Earl Godwine, from Aethelred I (not II), but it is also possible that the land was expropriated and presented to Godwine and his possession of it does not indicate genealogical descent.

Pedigree

  1. Cyld of Sussex, Wulfnoth of Sussex [I30805]
    1. Earl of Wessex & Kent, Godwin of Wessex
      1. Thorkilsdottir, Gytha [I30803]
        1. of Wessex, Eadgyth (Edith) [I16871]
        2. King of England, Harold II Godwineson [I30804]
        3. of Wessex, Tosig [I25907]

Ancestors

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  1. Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 [S286879]
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  2. Fisher, Gordon [S287687]
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        "The son of Wulfnoth, probably a Sussex thegn, Godwin rose to power through
        the favour of King Cnut." ac. to *The Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster*, attributed to a monk of Saint-Bertin, 2nd edn, ed & tr & with introduction & notes by Frank Barlow, Oxford (Clarendon), 1992. Footnote, p 6

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  6. Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science: University of Hull Royal Database (England) [S283806]
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