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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.
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For almost fifty years the vastly wealthy holders of this earldom, first Godwin and then his son Harold, were the most powerful men in English politics after the king.
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.
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 of Wessex () ( died 15 April 1053 ) was one of the most powerful earls in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors.
Following Harthacnut's death on 8 June 1042, Godwin, the most powerful of the English earls, supported Edward, who succeeded to the throne.
He had already come into conflict with the powerful Earl Godwin of Wessex, and while archbishop made attempts to recover lands lost to Godwin and his family.
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.
Thereafter Godwin rose to become, in King Edward's time, the most powerful man in the kingdom.
* Godwin, Earl of Wessex ( c. 1000 – 1053 ), one of the most powerful lords in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors
This made him one of the most powerful men in the land, second only to Earl Godwin of Wessex among the mighty earls.
Edith was the daughter of Godwin, the most powerful earl in England.
Godwin has conducted various powerful interviews for the station with figures such as Desmond Tutu and Zanu-PF firebrand Jocelyn Chiwenga.
It had previously been held by the Godwin family who were the most powerful family in the whole country.
Nimrod Plantagenet Godwin is the powerful Djinn uncle of John and Philippa and defacto leader of the Marid.
Godwin and earl
Journeying with him was Tostig, another son of Earl Godwin, who was now earl of Northumbria.
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.
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His men caused an affray in Dover, and Edward ordered Godwin as earl of Kent to punish the town's burgesses, but he took their side and refused.
The king ordered Godwin to punish the town, and the earl refused.
Robert's attempts to recover church property that had been appropriated by Earl Godwin contributed to the quarrel between the earl and the king.
Godwin was attempting to exercise his power of patronage over the archbishopric, but the king's appointment signaled that the king was willing to contest with the earl over the traditional royal rights at Canterbury.
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 ".
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.
Godwin and Wessex
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.
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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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