* Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, wife of Godwin, Earl of Wessex

Harold was a son of Godwin, the powerful Earl of Wessex, and his wife Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, whose supposed brother Ulf Jarl was the son-in-law of Sweyn I and the father of Sweyn II of Denmark.

Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex ( 1029 – 1075 ), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.

Bosham Church: the lower three storeys of the tower are Saxon, the top storey Norman Harold's daughter Gytha of Wessex married Vladimir Monomakh Grand Duke ( Velikii Kniaz ) of Kievan Rus ' and is ancestress to dynasties of Galicia, Smolensk, and Yaroslavl.

Isabella is descended from Gytha of Wessex through King Andrew II of Hungary and thus brought the bloodline of the last Saxon King of England, Harold Godwinson, back into the English Royal family.

Tostig was the third son of Godwin ( d. 1053 ), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Sprakaleg.

His first wife was Gytha of Wessex, daughter of Harold of England who fell at Hastings and Edith Swannesha.

According to Vasily Tatishchev Yuri was born on 1090 which makes him a son of the first wife of Vladimir Monomakh, a daughter of Harold Godwinson, Gytha of Wessex.

His children were Ulf ( d. 1027 ), a steward and Earl of Canute the Great in Denmark, whose son became king Sweyn II of Denmark, Eilaf ( also Earl of King Canute ) and Gytha Thorkelsdóttir who was to marry Godwin, Earl of Wessex and become mother of Harold Godwinson, king of England.

Mstislav I Vladimirovich the Great (, ) ( June 1, 1076, Turov – April 14, 1132, Kiev ) was the Grand Prince of Kiev ( 1125 – 1132 ), the eldest son of Vladimir II Monomakh by Gytha of Wessex.

Yaropolk II Vladimirovich () ( 1082 – 18 February 1139 ), Prince of Pereyaslav ( 1114 – 1132 ), Velikiy Kniaz ( Grand Prince ) of Kiev ( 1132 – 1139 ), son of Vladimir II Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex.

He was a son of Vladimir Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex.

Gytha of Wessex ( died 1098 or 1107 ) () was one of several daughters of Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, by his first wife, Edith Swanneck.

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In fact, one of Harold Godwinesson's and Edith the Fair's daughters, Gyda Haraldsdatter ( Harold's daughter ), also known as Gytha of Wessex, was addressed as " princess " and was married to the Grand Duke of Kiev, Vladimir Monomakh.

At the end of the 10th century, Adstock formed a portion of the Lands of Godwine, Earl of Kent and his second wife Gytha Thorkelsdóttir.

However according to the " Testament of Vladimir Monomakh " the Gyurgi's mother died on May 7, 1107, while Gytha died on March 10 and probably in 1098.

Isabella of France ( consort of Edward II ) was also a direct descendant of Harold via Gytha.

Through his mother Gytha, he is part of a link between Harold II of England and the modern line of English kings founded by William the Conqueror, who deposed him.

Alexander was the fourth son of Malcolm III by his wife Margaret of Wessex, grandniece of Edward the Confessor.

He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, by his first wife, Osburh.

After a brief exile at her Westphalian manors at Enger, where she established a college of canons in 947, Matilda was brought back to court at the urging of King Otto's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Edith of Wessex.

Malcolm's second wife, Margaret of Wessex, was later beatified and is Scotland's only royal saint.

Godwin was the father of King Harold Godwinson and Edith of Wessex, wife of King Edward the Confessor.

** TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex ( The Queen's third son and his wife )

It was rare in ninth century Wessex for the king's wife to be given the title queen, and it is only definitely known to have been given to Æthelwulf's second wife, Judith of Flanders.

Æthelweard was a descendant of King Æthelred of Wessex and probably the brother of King Eadwig's wife.

He was the third son of Æthelwulf of Wessex and his first wife, Osburh.

* Ealhswith, queen consort and wife of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, also has a Canadian private secretary and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, a lady-in-waiting.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex ( Sophie Helen ; née Rhys-Jones ; born 20 January 1965 ), is the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and member of the British Royal Family.

Fleeing the Normans, Turgot became the teacher of Olaf Kyrre in Norway for a time before returning to be made prior of the Benedictine convent of Durham Cathedral, and he may have been the confessor of Margaret of Wessex, the second wife of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, king of the Scots, and hence probably known to King Alexander I and Earl David ( later David I ) since childhood.

* Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex

Though unnamed, she was possibly the first wife of Cenwalh, King of Wessex ( 648-674 ).

* Edith of Wessex 5 January 1066 — 18 December 1075, wife of Edward the Confessor ; sister of Harold Godwinson.

At a country fair near Casterbridge, Wessex, a young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard overindulges in rum-laced furmity and quarrels with his wife, Susan.

The period between the accession of his successor Máel Coluim I ( Malcolm I ) and Máel Coluim mac Cináeda ( Malcolm II ) was marked by good relations with the Wessex rulers of England, intense internal dynastic disunity and relatively successful expansionary policies.

Cnut the Great, who conquered England in 1016, created the wealthy and powerful earldom of Wessex, but in 1066 Harold II reunited the earldom with the crown and Wessex then ceased to be a political unit.

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts a fallen golden dragon, as well as a red / golden / white dragon at the death of King Harold II, who was previously Earl of Wessex.

** Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, British prince and third son ( youngest child ) of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh

Edmund Ironside or Edmund II (; c. 988 / 993 – 30 November 1016 ) was king of England from 23 April to 18 October 1016 and of Wessex from 23 April to 30 November 1016.

Edgar ( the ) Ætheling ( also spelt Æþeling, Aetheling, Atheling or Etheling ) or Edgar II ( c. 1051 – c. 1126 ) was the last male member of the royal house of Cerdic of Wessex ( see House of Wessex family tree ).

However, the latter made no recorded effort to entrench his grand-nephew's position as heir to a throne which was being eyed by a range of powerful potential contenders including England's leading aristocrat Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and the foreign rulers William, Duke of Normandy, Sweyn II Estrithson, King of Denmark and Harald Hardrada, King of Norway.

Æthelmær has also been tentatively identified as the father Wulfnoth Cild, who was the father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and grandfather of King Harold II.

Harold, Earl of Wessex is pictured on the tapestry rescuing two Norman knights from the quicksand in the tidal flats during a battle with Conan II, Duke of Brittany.

In 1999, during the time leading up to the wedding of The Prince Edward, the youngest son of Elizabeth II, experts had suggested the Dukedom of Sussex or Cambridge as the most likely to be granted to him Instead, Prince Edward was created Earl of Wessex, and it was announced that he would eventually succeed to the title Duke of Edinburgh, currently held by his father.

Arnulf was the son of count Baldwin II of Flanders and Ælfthryth of Wessex, daughter of Alfred the Great.

On 3 March 2012 Sebastian welcomed the Earl and Countess of Wessex to St Kitts and Nevis during their visit to the Caribbean as part of Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

* Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex ( born 1964 ), youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II

The culture is related to the Hilversum culture of the central Netherlands, Belgium and northern France, and linked to the northern France armorican tumuli, prototyped with the Middle Rhine group of Beaker culture and commonly subdivided in the consecutive phases Wessex I ( 2000-1650 BC ) and Wessex II ( 1650-1400 ).

The Viking threat may also account for the evident cooperation in matters of currency between Mercia and Wessex which began in Beorhtwulf's reign and lasted until the end of the independent Mercian kingdom on the death of King Ceolwulf II in the years around 880.

* Ælfgifu, daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and sister of King Harold II of England

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