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.

In September 1052, though, Godwin returned from exile and his family was restored to power.

Journeying with him was Tostig, another son of Earl Godwin, who was now earl of Northumbria.

James Northcote, William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery ( London ) | National Portrait Gallery, William Godwin, a radical liberalism | liberal and utilitarian was one of the first to espouse what became known as individualist anarchism.

William Godwin can be considered an individualist anarchist and philosophical anarchist who was influenced by the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, and developed what many consider the first expression of modern anarchist thought.

Godwin was, according to Peter Kropotkin, " the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his work.

Godwin was a utilitarian who believed that all individuals are not of equal value, with some of us " of more worth and importance ' than others depending on our utility in bringing about social good.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist irish people | irish writer of the decadent movement and famous dandyThe English enlightenment political theorist William Godwin was an important influence as mentioned before.

" Woodcock finds that " The most ambitious contribution to literary anarchism during the 1890s was undoubtedly Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man under Socialism " and finds that it is influenced mainly by the thought of William Godwin.

For Woodcock a more elaborate sketch of anarchism, although still without the name, was provided by William Godwin in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ).

Godwin was a gradualist anarchist rather than a revolutionary anarchist ; he differed from most later anarchists in preferring above revolutionary action the gradual and, as it seemed to him, more natural process of discussion among men of good will, by which he hoped truth would eventually triumph through its own power.

Godwin, who was influenced by the English tradition of Dissent and the French philosophy of the Enlightenment, put forward in a developed form the basic anarchist criticisms of the state, of accumulated property, and of the delegation of authority through democratic procedure.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 ).

Alfred was captured by Godwin, Earl of Wessex who turned him over to Harold Harefoot.

The 12th century Quadripartitus, in an account regarded as convincing by historian John Maddicott, states that he was recalled by the intervention of Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester and Earl Godwin.

* William Godwin, ( born in Wisbech, 3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836 ) was an English political writer and novelist, considered one of the important precursors of both utilitarian and liberal anarchist thought.

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

* Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ( Mary Shelley ) ( 1797 – 1851 ), most famous for her novel Frankenstein, was born at 29 Polygon Square

He was the son of Thomas Godwin, Bishop of Bath and Wells, born at Hannington, Northamptonshire.

Godwin was born July 2, 1952, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, but her hometown is Jackson, Missouri.

Godwin was born in Nansemond County ( now-Suffolk, Virginia ) and educated at the Norfolk Division of The College of William and Mary, now Old Dominion University.

Parke Godwin ( born January 28, 1929 ) is an American writer.

Joscelyn Godwin ( born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England ) is a composer, musicologist and translator, known for his work on ancient music, paganism and music in the occult.

* Gail Godwin ( born 1937 ), American novelist and short story writer

* Linda M. Godwin ( born 1952 ), American astronaut

* Neville Godwin ( born 1975 ), South African tennis player

* Tommy Godwin ( cyclist born 1912 ), English cyclist and world record holder for miles covered in a year

* Tommy Godwin ( cyclist born 1920 ), British track cyclist active during the 1940s and 1950s

* Wayne Godwin ( born 1982 ), English rugby player

* Glen Stewart Godwin ( born 1958 ), American murderer, FBI Ten Most Wanted

* Mike Godwin ( born 1956 ), American lawyer, created Godwin's Law of Internet discussions

* Lady Joanna Lambart ( born 8 December 1929 ), ( HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother stood sponsor ) married in 1955 to Major Michael Godwin Plantagenet Stourton.

Davis was born in St. Augustine, Florida, a son of William Godwin Davis and the former Mary Ann Channer.

Peter Godwin ( born December 4, 1957 in Harare, Zimbabwe ) is an author, journalist, screenwriter and former human rights lawyer.

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 ).

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.

Edward W. ( Ted ) Godwin, ( born August 13, 1933 ) is a Canadian artist who was part of the Regina Five, a group of five artists ( Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Ron Bloore, and Douglas Morton ) all based in Regina, Saskatchewan.

* Carter Godwin Woodson ( 1875-1950 ), born in Buckingham, was an African American historian, author, journalist, the " Father of Black History ," and founder of American Black History Month.

* Henry Thomas Godwin ( born 1853 ), Ontario farmer and political figure