That same year, as Ealdred was returning to England he met Sweyn, a son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and probably absolved Sweyn for having abducted the abbess of Leominster Abbey in 1046.

His struggles for power against Godwin, Earl of Wessex, the claims of Canute's Scandinavian successors, and the ambitions of the Normans whom Edward introduced to English politics to bolster his own position caused each to vie for control Edward's reign.

In 1052, Macbeth was involved indirectly in the strife in the Kingdom of England between Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Edward the Confessor when he received a number of Norman exiles from England in his court, perhaps becoming the first king of Scots to introduce feudalism to Scotland.

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.

One story implicates Earl Godwin of Wessex in Alfred's subsequent death, but others blame Harold.

Whatever Edward's wishes, it was likely that any claim by William would be opposed by Godwin, the Earl of Wessex, a member of the most powerful family in England.

* Godwin, Earl of Wessex

* Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, wife of Godwin, Earl of Wessex

* Godwin, Earl of Wessex ( d. 1053 )

* Godwin, Earl of Wessex ( d. 1053 )

* Godwin, Earl of Wessex

* Godwin, Earl of Wessex

* April 15 – Godwin, Earl of Wessex ( b. 1001 )

* Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is exiled from England by King Edward the Confessor for refusing to take action against the townspeople of Dover.

* Godwin, Earl of Wessex returns to England from exile.

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.

When Godwin died in 1053, Harold succeeded him as Earl of Wessex ( the southernmost third of England ).

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

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Sweyn Godwinson () ( c. 1020 – 1052 ), also spelled Swein, was the eldest son of Earl Godwin of Wessex, and brother of Harold II of England.

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 was probably an adherent of Æthelred's eldest son, Æthelstan, who left him an estate when he died in 1014.

In 1040, Harold Harefoot died and Godwin supported the accession of his half-brother Harthacnut to the throne of England.

When Harthacnut himself died in 1042 Godwin supported the claim of Æthelred's last surviving son Edward the Confessor to the throne.

On 15 April 1053 Godwin died suddenly, after collapsing during a royal banquet at Winchester.

Godwin himself died in 1053 and although Harold succeeded to his earldom of Wessex, none of his other brothers were earls at this date.

When he died in 1053, Godwin was succeeded as Earl of Wessex ( including Sussex ) by his son Harold, who had previously been Earl of East Anglia.

With his relationship with Maud unraveling, Whistler suddenly proposed to and married Beatrice (" Trixie ") Godwin ( née Beatrix Birnie Philip ), a former pupil and the former wife of his architect Edward William Godwin, who had died two years earlier.

When both towers collapsed during the September 11 attacks in 2001, ten employees died ; one on American Airlines Flight 11, and nine others ( Thomas F. Swift, Wesley Mercer, Jennifer de Jesus, Joseph DiPilato, Nolbert Salomon, Godwin Forde, Steve R. Strauss, Lindsay C. Herkness, Albert Joseph, Jorge Velazquez, Titus Davidson, and Charles Laurencin ) in the towers, including Security Director Rick Rescorla.

He died in 1809, not long after a deathbed reconciliation with his closest friend from the 1790s ( but lately estranged ), William Godwin.

* Thomas Godwin, Bishop of Bath and Wells, born and died in Wokingham

* March 3-William Godwin, writer ( died 1836 )

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, philosopher and feminist, lived there with her husband William Godwin, and died there in 1797 after giving birth to the future Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

Godwin died, after a lingering illness, in April 1633.

* Publication of The Man in the Moone, or the Discovrse of a Voyage thither " by Domingo Gonsales " ( actually by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford ( died 1633 )), an early example of science fiction.

Aung San's wife Daw Khin Kyi died on 27 December 1988. Daw Khin Kyi's Mausoleum was constructed by Engineer corps, close supervised by major Win Aung Tint, Capt Tin Aye & wo 1 Kan Nyunt of G E ( 954 ) Yangon, situated on former Godwin road.

Fay Godwin died on 27 May 2005, in Hastings, England at the age of 74.

Godwin died in 1999 of Pneumonia.

England became dominated by the Godwin family, who had taken advantage of the Danish killings to acquire huge wealth: when Edward died in 1066, Harold Godwinson claimed the throne, defeating his rival Norwegian claimant, Harald Hardrada, at the battle of Stamford Bridge.

She died young, and her widower, the philosopher William Godwin, quickly wrote a memoir of her that, contrary to his intentions, destroyed her reputation for generations.

John Godwin ( born March 10, 1877 in East Liverpool, Ohio ; died May 5, 1956 in E. Liverpool, Ohio ) was a Major League Baseball player for the Boston Americans in 1905 and 1906.

At Easter 1053 Godwin died, so Harold became Earl of Wessex, and the earldom of East Anglia returned to Ælfgar.