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Godwin was probably an adherent of Æthelred's eldest son, Æthelstan, who left him an estate when he died in 1014. [1] This estate in Compton, Sussex, had once belonged to Godwin's father. [2] After Cnut seized the throne in 1016, Godwin's rise was rapid. By 1018 he was an earl, probably of eastern Wessex, and then by around 1020 of all Wessex ...
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.
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. Godwin's ...
This is the family tree for monarchs of England ... Godwin 1001–1053 Earl of Wessex: King Harthacnut c. 1018 –1042 King of the English r. 1040–1042: Gunhilda
Godwin c. 1001 –1053 Earl of Wessex: Earl of Hereford (1st creation), 1043: Earl of Hereford (3rd creation), 1058: Earl of Hereford (2nd creation), 1052: Earl of Hereford (4th creation), 1067: Sweyn Godwinson 1020–1052 Earl of Hereford: Harold Godwinson (c. 1022 –1066) Earl of Hereford, King of the English: William de Mandeville (d ...
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn at the 2013 Trooping the Colour Ceremony. Getty Images Upon birth, he received the title ...
The Earl and Countess of Wessex meet Joan Williams, and look at photos she took (David Parry/PA) Edward and Sophie spoke to her about her life at Brinsworth. “It sounds like you have a party ...
It appears that Sweyn was pardoned, despite his crimes, the following year (1050), and restored to his office. Some say it was his father Earl Godwin who pleaded his case to the King, others that it was Aldred or Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, who met him in Flanders returning from his pilgrimage. In any case, his last stay in England would not ...