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Oct 14, 2018 · Harold’s sister, Edith, was the wife of King Edward; she had married him in January 1046. However, the fact they had no children meant there was no clear successor to the English crown; a situation that would be a major cause of the crisis of 1066.
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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.
Jun 13, 2016 · Walker notes that one source suggests a plan to marry Harold’s sister to Duke William – which can’t have been the case as his wife Matilda might have objected. More plausibly there may have been a projected marriage between Harold’s sister and William’s eldest son Robert.
Aug 9, 2020 · In 1066, Harold needed the support of the northern earls if he was to remain king and in March he married Ealdgyth, the sister of Earl Morcar of Northumbria and Earl Edwin of Mercia. They had two children.
Edith may have been the mother of Harold's daughters Gunhild of Wessex, [5] who became the mistress of Alan Rufus, and Gytha of Wessex, who was taken by her grandmother to Denmark in 1068. [1] Gytha was addressed as "princess" and married the Grand Duke of Kiev, Vladimir II Monomakh. [6]
Jul 18, 2023 · Harold's father was Godwin, the powerful Earl of Wessex believed to be a son to Wulfnoth Cild, Thegn of west Sussex. Godwin married twice, both times to Danish women of high rank. His first wife was the Danish princess Thyra Sveinsdóttir, one of the daughters of Sweyn I of Denmark and Norway.
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Mar 15, 2015 · Harold’s long relationship with his handfasted wife Edith Swanneck produced five or six children. Godwine, the eldest, was named after Harold’s father. Then we have Edmund (named after Edmund Ironside?), Magnus, Gunhild and Gytha.
