Godwin of Wessex 
Godwin of Wessex was born in 1002 in of Wessex, England.1 Godwin of Wessex's father was Wulfnoth of Sussex. His paternal grandparents were Aethelmaer the Great Cyld and Aethelthrith of Wessex. He had a brother named Elfwig. He was the older of the two children. He died at the age of 51 on April 15th, 1053 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.1 General Notes
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TITL Fisher, Gordon contributor to soc.genealogy.medieval gfisher@@shentel.net Electron ic
TEXT "The son of Wulfnoth, probably a Sussex thegn, Godwin rose to power through
TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 AUTH Frederi ck Lewis Weis PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992 Same ref source as earlie r ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623-1650" ed 1-6 good to ver y good J.H. Garner Book PAGE p 5 line 1B
CAUS Apoplexy.
TITL University of Hull Royal base (England) AUTH Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science P UBL copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, my thological figures, etc WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX bct@@tardis.ed.ac.u k Electronic
_FA1 PLAC An Anglo-Danish noble, he rose to power under Canute.
_FA2 PLAC Godwin supported the acession of Edward the Confessor after Canute's death.
_FA3 PLAC Became a dominant figure Edward the Confessor's royal gov't.
_FA4 PLAC In 1045 his daughter Edith married Edward.
_FA5 PLAC Overthrown in 1051 but regained his position by force in 1052.
_FA6 PLAC Suceeded by his son Harold II King of England.
_FA7 PLAC Thegn in Sussex, Ealdorman of Wessex 1018.
An Anglo-Danish noble, he rose to power under Canute, after whose death he supported the acc ession of Edward the Confessor & became a dominant figure in royal gov't. In 1045 his daught er married Edward. He was overthrown in 1051 but regained his position by force in 1052. He w as succeeded by his son Harold, who also succeeded Edward, thus leading to the Norman conques t. 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 Histor y in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday_ (Association for th e Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, Ltd., Occasional Publication No. Two, 1989). As I po sted earlier, the descent of land provides strong evidence for the descent of Harold II's fat her, Earl Godwine, from Aethelred I (not II), but it is also possible that the land was expro priated and presented to Godwine and his possession of it does not indicate genealogical desc ent.
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