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Wulfnoth Godwinson ( 1040 – Winchester, 1094) era un fratello minore di Aroldo II d'Inghilterra, il sesto figlio di Godwin del Wessex, appartenente dunque alla dinastia Godwin ed unico dei figli maschi di Godwin a sopravvivere al 1066. Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Cultura di massa. 3 Ascendenza. 4 Note. 5 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia.
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. 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)
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Le origini famigliari di Godwin sono dubbie e si presume che fosse il figlio di un piccolo nobile del Sussex, forse Wulfnoth Cild. Vissuto in un'epoca in cui l'Inghilterra era terra di conquista seppe destreggiarsi piuttosto bene, studiando con cura le proprie alleanze. Nel 1016 il regno era dilaniato dalla lotta fra Edmondo II d'Inghilterra e suo ...
Dalla moglie Gytha ThorkelsdaettirGodwin ebbe: 1. Sweyn Godwinson conte dell'Herefordshire (morto nel 1052), che ad un certo punto si dichiarò, vanamente, figlio illegittimo di Canuto il Grandeper poter aspirare alla corona; 2. Aroldo II d'Inghilterra (1022 circa - 14 ottobre 1066); 3. Tostig del Wessex, conte di Northumbria (1026 circa - 25 settem...
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Rein dynasty. Torgar dynasty. 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.
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22 feb 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.
Wulfnoth Cild Godwin of Wessex ( Old English : Godwine ; c. 1001 – 15 April 1053) was an English nobleman who became one of the most powerful earls in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great (King of England from 1016 to 1035) and his successors.
