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Gyrth Godwinson, in inglese antico Gyrð Godƿinson (1032 circa – 14 ottobre 1066), fu il quarto figlio di Godwin del Wessex, e fratello minore di Aroldo II d'Inghilterra, e dunque appartenente alla dinastia di Godwin.
Gyrth Godwinson (Old English: Gyrð Godƿinson; c. 1032 – 14 October 1066) was the fourth son of Earl Godwin, and thus a younger brother of Harold Godwinson. He went with his eldest brother Sweyn into exile to Flanders in 1051, but unlike Sweyn he was able to return with the rest of the clan the following year.
Gytha, di cui non si conoscono l'anno di nascita e di morte, andò in sposa a Godwin del Wessex, da cui ebbe numerosi figli che, anche se in momenti diversi, raggiunsero tutti il grado di conte. Questi erano:
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.
Gyrth Godwinson, the son of Earl Godwin of Wessex, and and his wife, Gytha, was born in about 1030. (1) 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. (2)
Gyrth Godwinson is a member of the House of Godwin. Gyrth was the son of Godwin and Gytha. [1] He was the fourth in the list of Godwin's sons given by Orderic Vitalis, after Sweyn, Tostig and Harold. [2] His birth year is uncertain but was probably after 1035.
Godwin, conte di Wessex, è stato un nobile anglosassone, molto vicino al re Canuto il Grande, fu da lui creato Conte di Wessex. Dei suoi figli, uno divenne Re con il nome di Aroldo II d'Inghilterra e un'altra, Edith del Wessex, sposò Edoardo il Confessore. Fu il fondatore della dinastia omonima.
