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Edith of Wessex (c. 1025 – 18 December 1075) was the wife of King Edward the Confessor of England. She was crowned queen, commissioned works for Edward, and survived him by five years.
Edith of Wessex was the wife of King Edward the Confessor and the sister of King Harold II, who died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. She was a pious, educated and influential woman who supported her family and commissioned works in honour of her husband and other saints.
May 15, 2015 · Learn about the life and legacy of Edith, the wife of Edward the Confessor and the mother of Harold II. Discover how she was a pawn in her father's ambitions, a possible murderer, and a wealthy widow.
Eadgyth, also known as Edith of England, was a member of the House of Wessex and the wife of Otto I, the first emperor of Germany. She was born in 910, married in 930, and died in 946, leaving two children and a legacy of charitable works and saint veneration.
Learn about the life and legacy of Edith, the wife of King Edward the Confessor and the mother of Saint Margaret of Scotland. Discover how she influenced the politics, culture and religion of 11th-century England.
Jun 5, 2012 · She was Edith of Wessex and the wife of King Edward the Confessor. Edith’s grandfather Wulfnoth and father Godwin were English nobles of the South Saxons. Godwin was a military man in the entourage of King Aethelred the Unready’s son, Athelstan. But he really made a name for himself under King Cnut by suppressing a rebellion in Denmark ...
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Edith of Wessex was Queen of England through her marriage to Edward the Confessor from 1045 until Edward's death in 1066. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned. The principal source on her life is a work she herself commissioned, the Vita Ædwardi Regis or the Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster, which is inevitably biased.
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