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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 a member of British ...
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 .
5 de abr. de 2024 · Godwin (sometimes Godwine, Goodwin, Godwyn, Goodwyn and sometimes known as Godwin of Wessex) (c. 1001–April 15, 1053), was one of the most powerful lords in England under the Danish king Canute the Great and his successors. Canute made him the first Earl of Wessex.
The House of Godwin ( Old English: Godƿin) was an Anglo-Saxon family who were one of the leading noble families in England during the last fifty years before the Norman Conquest. Its most famous member was Harold Godwinson, King of England for nine months in 1066.
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.
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.
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.
