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It tells how a band of robbers attacked Tostig's party in Italy, seeking to kidnap the Earl. A certain Gospatric "was believed because of the luxury of his clothes and his physical appearance, which was indeed distinguished" to be Earl Tostig, and succeeded in deceiving the would-be kidnappers as to his identity until the real Earl was safely ...
Tostig Godwinson (c. 1029 – 25 September 1066) [1] was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson. [2] After being exiled by his brother, Tostig supported the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada's invasion of England, and was killed alongside Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066.
The Northumbrian Revolt of 1065 was a rebellion in the last months of the reign of Edward the Confessor against the earl of Northumbria, Tostig Godwinson, brother of Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex. Tostig, who had been earl since 1055, is said to have provoked his nobles to rise against him by his harsh administration of justice, raising of ...
Godwin, Earl of Wessex, after whom the family is named, was the son of one Wulfnoth, probably to be identified with Wulfnoth Cild, [4] [5] a Sussex thegn who in 1009, having been accused of unspecified crimes, deserted the service of the English king Æthelred the Unready along with a fleet of twenty ships.
Sweyn Godwinson, Earl of Herefordshire (c. 1020 – 29 September 1052) Harold II of England (c. 1022 – 14 October 1066) Edith of Wessex, (c. 1025 – 18 December 1075), queen consort of Edward the Confessor; Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria (c. 1026 – 25 September 1066) Gyrth Godwinson, Earl of East Anglia (c. 1032 – 14 October 1066)
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James Earl Jones leaves behind a legacy as a fantastic actor, one who delivered a monologue that is still a rallying cry for baseball fans all over the world 35 years after it first came out ...
The family is named after Harold's father, Earl Godwin, who had risen to a position of wealth and influence in the 1020s under Danish King Cnut the Great. In 1045 Godwin's daughter, Edith , married King Edward the Confessor , and by the mid-1050s Harold and his brothers had become dominant, almost monopolising the English earldoms.