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Godwin ( 1st Earl Of Wessex) Wulfnosonn[1]

Male 986 - 1053  (67 years)Deceased


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  • First & lastname Godwin ( 1st Earl Of Wessex) Wulfnosonn  [2, 3, 4
    Birth 986  Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 15 Apr 1053  Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age 67 years 
    Burial Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Cerdic the Saxon (1st King of Wessex) 1,   b. 467, Ancient Saxony, Northern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 534, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)  (18 x Great Grandfather) 
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    Person ID P8381  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2020 

    Father Ancestors Wulfnoth Cild Thegn of Sussex,   b. Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1015, Held, Sussex, England or Winchester Castle, Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F5904  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife 1 Ancestors Gytha of Skane Thorkelsdottir,   b. 1001, Hålland, Jamtland, Sweden Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1069, Artois, Flanders, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Marriage 1019  Halland, Jamtland, Sweden Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage He : ~ 33 years - She : ~ 18 years. 
    Children 
     1. Tostig ( EARL OF NORTHUMBRIA) Godwinsson,   b. 1001, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1066, Killed at Stamford of Bridge, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]
    +2. Thurstan Red Abbot Ely,   b. 1004, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1074, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    Aethelgyth  m. 1020
     [Father: natural]
    Married: 1x3. Edith of Wessex,   b. 1020, Of, , Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Dec 1075, Winchester, Hampshire, , England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
     [Father: natural]
    +4. Sveyn Earl of Mercia,   b. 1021   d. 29 Sep 1052, Lycia, Constantinople, Byzantium Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years)
     [Father: natural]
    +5. Harold II Godwinson King of England,   b. 1022, Wessex, Anglo-Saxon England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1066, Senlac Hill, Battle near Hastings E.Sussex Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)
     [Father: natural]
    Family ID F2085  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2020 

    Wife 2 Thyra Sevindottir,   b. Denmark Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1018 
    Marriage 1022 
    Age at Marriage He : ~ 36 years - She : ??. 
    Family ID F2086  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2020 

  • Sources 
    1. [S-2109027946] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6361038&pid=8381

    2. [S-1709292564] Ancestry.com, Web: International, Find A Grave Index, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 15 February 2013.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cg).

    3. [S-1799869246] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.Original data - Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: ).

    4. [S-1043592616] Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).