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Edmund or Eadmund (Within the Anglo-Saxon alphabet it was likely spelt) ᚪᛖᛞᛘᚩᚾᛞ or Ædmund (fl. 1068 – 1069) was a son of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was driven into exile in Dublin by the Norman conquest of England , along with two of his brothers, and from there he twice took part in expeditions to south ...
See also: Ancestry of the Godwins. 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.
- 6 January 1066
- Godwin, Earl of Wessex
- 5 January – 14 October 1066
- Gytha Thorkelsdóttir
15 de jul. de 2014 · Harold’s sons Godwin, Edmund and Magnus went to Dublin after the Conquest. They returned in 1068 with their swords in their hands and a force of Norse mercenaries from the Kingdom of Dublin.
Godwin or Godwine [1] ( fl. 1066 – 1069) was a son, probably the eldest son, of Harold Godwinson, King of England. He was driven into exile in Dublin, along with two of his brothers, by the Norman conquest of England, and from there he twice led expeditions to south-western England, but with little success.
8 de mar. de 2022 · Following Godwin’s death, his son, Harold Godwinson, succeeded him as Earl of Wessex, and with time, Godwin’s sons were on their way to take near-total overlordship of England, under the king, as Tostig became Earl of Northumbria.
7 de feb. de 2022 · Edmund was granted Wessex as a peace offering, but died or was murdered soon afterwards. Son of Sweyn Forkbeard, Canute, was declared king of England in 1017. Canute’s conversion to Christianity led him to the meeting with Harold’s father. Harold’s father was also a religious man, who spent his younger days in Sussex.
14 de ene. de 2019 · One possible claimant was Edgar Ætheling, son of Edward the Exile (d. 1057 CE) and the great-nephew of Edward the Confessor, but he was only in his early teens in 1066 CE and so he was sidelined by Harold, likely with the support of the other English earls (although the whole affair remains mysterious for lack of unambiguous sources).
