• Gytha Thorkelsdóttir (c. 997 – c. 1069), also called Githa, was a Danish noblewoman. She was the wife of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and the mother of King...
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    was the daughter of Godwin, the most powerful earl in England. Her mother Gytha was sister of Ulf, a Danish earl who was Cnut the Great's brother-in-law...
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    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...
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    the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England...
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  • Tostig was the third son of the Anglo-Saxon nobleman Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, the daughter of Danish chieftain Thorgil Sprakling...
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    Gunhild of Wessex, who became the mistress of Alan Rufus, and Gytha of Wessex, who was taken by her grandmother to Denmark in 1068. Gytha was addressed...
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    Cnut (category House of Wessex)
    1015 "[Cnut] came into Sandwich, and straightway sailed around Kent to Wessex, until he came to the mouth of the Frome, and harried in Dorset and Wiltshire...
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    Danish wife Gytha. The family survived a short-lived exile in Flanders 1051-1052. After Godwin's death in 1053, his sons held the earldoms of Wessex, East Anglia...
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    Kyiv (1076–1132), grandson of Harold Godwinson, son of his daughter Gytha of Wessex Harold of Gloucester (died 1168), supposed child martyr and saint,...
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  • English monarchs List of English royal mistresses List of royal consorts of Wessex List of Scottish royal consorts List of Irish royal consorts List of Aquitanian...
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  • House of Wessex family tree precedes this family tree and the family tree of the British royal family follows it. (see List_of_monarchs_of_Wessex) As to...
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  • 407–408. Shakespeare, William, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act I "Kings of Wessex and England 802–1066" (PDF). The official website of The British Monarchy...
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    rival principalities. He was the eldest son of Vladimir II Monomakh by Gytha of Wessex. He is figured prominently in the Norse Sagas under the name Harald...
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  • England Gytha Thorkelsdóttir (c.997–c.1069), wife of Godwin, Earl of Wessex Margaret of Scotland, Countess of Kent (1193–1259), wife of Hubert de Burgh...
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    Assandun, after which they agreed to divide the kingdom, Edmund taking Wessex and Cnut the rest of the country. Edmund died shortly afterwards on 30 November...
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  • Harthacnut who was in Denmark, And Earl Godwine and all the foremost men in Wessex opposed it just as long as they could, but they could not contrive anything...
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    of Harold's brothers and his housecarls, were left on the battlefield. Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, Harold's mother, offered the duke the weight of her son's...
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    mother, Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, took refuge in Exeter, which then became the main focus in the West Country of resistance to Norman rule. Gytha had considerable...
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    the reign of Queen Anne. Alfred was king of Wessex from 871. There is some evidence that Ælfweard of Wessex may have been king in 924, between his father...
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    attended a wedding in Lambeth. The groom was Tovi the Proud, and the bride was Gytha, daughter of Osgod Clapa. Both men had been close to Cnut. According to...
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    was probably located in the East Midlands, where the lands of his wife Gytha were located. He was a benefactor of Peterborough Abbey. When King Edward...
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    left on the battlefield, although some were removed by relatives later. Gytha, Harold's mother, offered the victorious duke the weight of her son's body...
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    Princess Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden, paternal granddaughter of Gytha of Wessex and maternal granddaughter of King Inge the Elder of Sweden. She was...
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  • becomes an unlikely friend of Ragnar. Based on the historical Egbert of Wessex. Played by Nathan O'Toole (seasons 1–2, 4) and Alexander Ludwig (seasons...
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    concentrations were in Kent and Sussex, while his mother, Godwin's widow Gytha, held £16 from a total of £590, chiefly clustered in Devon, Wiltshire and...
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    thought to be associated with Hastings instead. One story relates that Gytha, Harold's mother, offered the victorious duke the weight of her son's body...
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    born 1321, married David II of Scotland. Isabella was descended from Gytha of Wessex through King Andrew II of Hungary and thus brought the bloodline of...
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    The Russian Legitimist. Retrieved 30 January 2018. Almanach de Gotha (182nd ed.). Almanach de Gotha. 1998. p. 214. Shain, Yossi The Frontier of Loyalty:...
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    Earl in England Asbjörn (d. probably 1086), Jarl in Denmark Gytha, married Godwin of Wessex; one of their children was King Harold II of England Eilaf...
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    Emperor of Constantinople, who was the uncle of Andrew's second wife, Yolanda de Courtenay. Stephen Nemanjić was crowned king of Serbia in 1217. Andrew planned...
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