* 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.

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

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Gytha left England after the Norman conquest, together with the wives or widows and families of other prominent Anglo-Saxons, all the Godwin family estates having been confiscated by William.

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.

Stephenson at this time would later be described by Mike Godwin as " a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction.

From 1969 to 1971, state legislators under Governor Mills Godwin rewrote the constitution, after goals such as the repeal of Jim Crow laws had been achieved.

Within a few years, however, he had created an earldom of Wessex, encompassing all of England south of the Thames, for his English henchman Godwin.

Edward had married Edith, Godwin's daughter, in 1043, and Godwin appears to have been one of the main supporters of Edward's claim to the throne.

But by 1050, relations between the king and the earl had soured, culminating in a crisis in 1051 that led to Godwin and his family's exile from England.

Godwin returned from exile in 1052 with armed forces and a settlement was reached between the king and the earl, with the earl and his family being restored to their lands and the replacement of Robert of Jumièges, a Norman whom Edward had named Archbishop of Canterbury, with Stigand, the Bishop of Winchester.

The best-known examples of the questionable advice given by the English witenagemot are when on January 5, 1066 it approved the succession to the kingship of Harold Godwinson ( Harold Godwin ) following the death of Edward the Confessor, and 50 years earlier, in 1016, it had approved the splitting of the kingdom between the Saxon Edmund II and the Danish king Canute.

After a violent clash between the people of Dover and the visiting Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, Edward's brother-in-law, Godwin was ordered to punish the people of Dover ( as he and Leofric, Earl of Mercia had done in Worcester, in Leofric's own earldom ).

Archbishop Robert accused Godwin of plotting to kill the king, just as he had killed his brother Alfred in 1036, while Leofric and Siward supported the king and called up their vassals.

One school of thought supports the Norman case that Edward always intended William the Conqueror to be his heir, accepting the medieval claim that Edward had already decided to be celibate before he married, but most historians believe that he hoped to have an heir by Edith at least until his quarrel with Godwin in 1051.

Godwin, the powerful earl of Wessex, had been complicit in the crime as he had handed over Alfred to Harold, and Queen Emma charged him in a trial before Harthacnut and members of his council.

The king allowed Godwin to escape punishment by bringing witnesses that he had acted on Harold's orders, but Godwin then gave Harthacnut a ship so richly decorated that it amounted to the wergild that Godwin would have had to pay if he had been found guilty.

William of Malmesbury asserts that Godwin had been overwhelmed " in power and in numbers " by Harold.

Godwin had him seized and delivered to an escort of men loyal to Harefoot.

The BAF commanders were Chude Sokey and later Godwin Ezeilo, who had trained with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

He was to remain an anarchist for the rest of his life, writing several books on the subject, including Anarchism, the anthology The Anarchist Reader ( 1977 ), and biographies of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde and Peter Kropotkin.

Both works were translated into French, and were imitated in several important particulars by Cyrano de Bergerac, from whom ( if not from Godwin directly ) Jonathan Swift obtained valuable hints in writing of Gulliver's voyage to Laputa.

Godwin joined NASA in 1980, in the Payload Operations Division, Mission Operations Directorate, where she worked in payload integration ( attached payloads and Spacelabs ), and as a flight controller and payloads officer on several Space Shuttle missions.

Over the next decade he wrote several books, among them Adventures in Prose ( 1911 ), Shelley, Godwin and his Circle ( 1913 ), War of Steel and Gold ( 1914 ), Origins of the Great War ( 1914 ), Belgium and the Scrap of Paper ( 1915 ) and A League of Nations ( 1917 ).

He lived with writer Gail Godwin for some thirty years ; the two collaborated on several librettos.

Soon after, Stevens began releasing music under several other pseudonyms, including BRB, DRK, and Godwin.

Peter Godwin ( born Salisbury ( now Harare ), 1957 ) wrote several books with a Zimbabwean background including Rhodesians Never Die ( 1984 ) and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun ( 2007 ).

With the death of Earl Siward ( 1055 ) and later Earl Ælfgar ( 1062 ), the children of Godwin were poised to assume sole control.

Before joining the Lyceum, Terry had run off from her first marriage and had conceived two children out of wedlock with bohemian artist Godwin.

The division is also responsible for CBBC and overall strategic responsibility for all of the BBC's domestic services for children rests with the Director of Children's, Joe Godwin ( since late 2009 ).

Godwin encouraged all of his children to read widely and give lectures from early childhood.

Mary Jane Godwin was a sharp-tongued woman who often quarreled with Godwin and favoured her own children over her husband's daughters.

Overall strategic responsibility for all of the BBC's services for children rests with the Director of Children's, Joe Godwin ( since late 2009 ), with commissioning decisions for the two channels being made by a Controller of each channel ; Daian Kavanagh ( since 2009 ) is Controller of CBBC, and Kay Benbow ( since 2010 ) is Controller of CBeebies.

Celebrezze and his wife, the former Louisa Godwin, had five children: Anthony J. III, Catherine, Charles, David, and Maria ( Celebrezze ) McBride.

Godwin was widowed in 1865 ; his affair with the renowned actress Ellen Terry between 1868 and 1874, incurred her retirement with him to Hertfordshire, and produced two children: Edith Craig and Edward Gordon Craig ( 1872 – 1966 ), who became an important actor, designer, director, and theoretical writer of the early 20th century European stage.

Godwin was born in London, one of eight children.

He married Alice Godwin October 27, 1917, and they had two children, Alice and Anne.

In complex ways, these novels and the rest of Brown's career are informed by the progressive ideas he uses and develops from the period's British radical-democratic writers, most notably Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Thomas Holcroft, and Robert Bage.

Most notably, they develop the British radical-democratic models of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Holcroft and combine these with elements of German " Schauer-romantik " gothic from Friedrich Schiller, the enlightened sentimental fictions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Laurence Sterne, women's domestic novels by writers such as Fanny Burney or Hannah Webster Foster, and other genres such as captivity narrative.

) Whistler and Godwin shared an interest in Chinese and Japanese art and collaborated over The White House and in a number of projects involving furniture and interior design, notably " Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Butterfly Cabinet ".

In England, Earl Godwin died in 1053 and his sons were increasing in power ; Harold succeeded to his father's earldom and another son, Tostig, became Earl of Northumbria.

Godwin and his sons were exiled from the kingdom in September 1051.

When Stigand, who was acting as intermediary, conveyed the king's jest that Godwin could have his peace if he could restore Alfred and his companions alive and well, Godwin and his sons fled, going to Flanders and Ireland.

Sweyn went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem ( dying on his way back ), but Godwin and his other sons returned with an army following a year later, and received considerable support, while Leofric and Siward failed to support the king.

Childless and embroiled in conflict with the formidable Godwin, Earl of Wessex and his sons, Edward may also have encouraged Duke William of Normandy's ambitions for the English throne.

In the summer of 1052, Godwin returned to England and was met by his sons, who had invaded from Ireland.

The Confessor, personally devout but politically weak, was unable to make an effective stand against the steady advance of the powerful and ambitious sons of Godwin, Earl of Wessex.

She married publisher Tony Godwin in 1961 ; the couple had two sons, Jeremy and Nicholas.

In 1051 Godwin and his sons fell out with Edward and fled the country.

Edith was therefore the only senior member of the Godwin family to survive the Norman conquest on English soil, the sons of Harold having fled to Ireland.

In 1051, with the exile of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and his sons and the forfeiture of their earldoms, a man named Odda was appointed earl over a portion of the lands thus vacated: this comprised Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and " Wealas ".

Ælfgar gained from the exile of Earl Godwin of Wessex and his sons in 1051.

In 1051, Earl Godwin and all his sons were exiled from England following a dispute with the King.

He was given as a hostage to Edward the Confessor in 1051 as assurance of Godwin's good behaviour and support during the confrontation between the earl and the king which led to the exile of Godwin and his other sons.