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Wulfnoth Godwinson. Wulfnoth Godwinson (1040-1094) was the youngest brother of King Harold II of England. The sixth son of Earl Godwin of Wessex, Wulfnoth was given as a hostage in childhood, and, as a result of war and political intrigue, was subsequently held in captivity for 43 years before dying, the longest-ever imprisonment of ...
Wulfnoth Godwinson. Wulfnoth Godwinson, the son of Earl Godwin, and his wife, Gytha, was probably born in about 1037. There is some evidence to suggest that Godwin was the son of the late tenth-century renegade and pirate Wulfnoth Cild of Compton, West Sussex, who had rebelled against Ethelred the Unready. (1)
Godwin, Earl of Wessex, after whom the family is named, was the son of one Wulfnoth, probably to be identified with Wulfnoth Cild, a Sussex thegn who in 1009, having been accused of unspecified crimes, deserted the service of the English king Æthelred the Unready along with a fleet of twenty ships.
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- Godwin, Earl of Wessex
19 de ago. de 2016 · Most of us lament the fate of Harold Godwineson (or Godwinson), last of the Anglo-Saxon kings killed at the Battle of Hastings. But how many know about his younger brother Wulfnoth? Born about 20 years after his famous sibling, Wulfnoth was whisked away as hostage for his father’s good behavior when he was only about 12 years old.
16 de jun. de 2019 · A timeline of the known details of Wulfnoth Godwinson, the younger brother of Harold Godwinson who spent most of his life in captivity.
22 de feb. de 2022 · The House of Godwin was an Anglo-Saxon dynastic family that rose to become the dominant force in 11th-century politics after the Danish invasion by Cnut in 1016. It would fall dramatically when William of Normandy defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.
Biography. Origins. Godwin was probably the son of Wulfnoth Cild. The name of his mother is not known, nor is his birth year. He was old enough to witness charters as an earl from 1018, so he was probably born before 995. [1] . Medlands suggests a birth date of about 993. [2] .
