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Godwin or Godwine (fl. 1066 – 1069) was a son, probably the eldest son, of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was driven into exile in Dublin, along with two of his brothers, by the Norman conquest of England, and from there he twice led expeditions to south-western England, but with little success.
Harold was a son of Godwin ( c. 1001 –1053), the powerful earl of Wessex, and of Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, whose brother Ulf the Earl was married to Estrid Svendsdatter (c. 1015/1016), the daughter of King Sweyn Forkbeard [2] (died 1014) and sister of King Cnut the Great of England and Denmark.
Harold (c. 1065 – 1098) was a son of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was driven into exile by the Norman conquest of England, and found refuge at the court of the king of Norway.
Mar 8, 2022 · In 1036, Alfred Ætheling, younger son of Emma of Normandy and Æthelred the Unready, attempted an invasion of England but was intercepted by Godwin, who handed him to Harold Harefoot. Alfred was blinded and died not long after, and even though Godwin's responsibility for the crime was disputed, it ended up affecting his future.
Sep 21, 2023 · Born in the early 1020s, Harold was the eldest son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Gytha, the daughter of a Danish chieftain. His family, on both Saxon and Danish sides, were extremely prominent and influential. On his mother’s side, he was related through marriage to King Cnut the Great.
After Earl Godwin’s death in 1053 his second son Harold became Earl of Wessex. This gave him control over all of Southern England. Harold’s younger brothers Leofwine and Gyrth...
Harold Godwinson, born in 1022, was the second son of Godwin Wulfnothson, earl of Wessex. Godwin himself had been born in 1001 and his parents and Harold’s paternal grandparents are believed to have been Wulfnoth Cild, a thegn of Sussex, and Thyra Svendsdatter of Denmark.
