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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.
Though Harold is said to have lawfully married Ealdgyth, the daughter of Earl Ælfgar, the widow of the Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn whom he had defeated in battle, that marriage in spring 1066 is seen by most modern scholars as one of political convenience. [7]
Oct 10, 2024 · About 1044, Godwine obtained for Harold the earldom of East Anglia, Essex, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire, and in 1045 Edward married Edith, Godwine’s daughter and Harold’s sister. In 1051, however, Godwine refused to obey a royal command to punish the people of a town friendly to him.
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In the spring of 1066, Harold II married Edith of Mercia, widow of the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn whom he had defeated in battle. Edith was the sister of Earls Edwine and Morcar , the marriage was intended to form a political alliance with her brothers.
