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 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.

Unstated in both is that the marriage of Edward to Edith of Wessex would also support his claim by earning him both the political support of her father Godwin, and an additional connection to Cnut.

Wulfnoth Cild was the father of Godwin, who was made Earl of Wessex in 1020.

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.

* The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of " Black History " and " Negro History Week.

Godwin Swift was the uncle and guardian of Jonathan Swift and a first cousin of the father of John Dryden.

After the death of his father, Godwin the Earl of Wessex, Leofwine ( c. 1035 – 1066 ), sometime between 1056 and 1058, became Earl of Kent, a new earldom at the time.

* In his source study of Englishwoman Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, Prof. Radu Florescu notes that her father, William Godwin, and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, were quite familiar with the lives and works of alchemists like Paracelsus and others.

Her father, Mr. James M. Godwin, resides in Oak Ridge, Missouri.

Politically his sympathies are not clear ; some claim he was a radical, but this is not borne out by known facts ; although he knew William Godwin, the ageing reformed revolutionist, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley ; and John Hunt, co-founder of The Examiner.

Other occupants of the manor included Godwin, Earl of Wessex, father of King Harold ; Peter of Savoy ; and Edward I's wife, Queen Margaret, who supplied oaks from the village to make shingles for the roof of the king's hall at Westminster.

The conflict between Matt Godwin and his father in The Immoral Reverend has many similarities.

On October 4, in London, Percy Shelley first met William Godwin ( 3 March 1756-7 April 1836 ), an English writer, husband of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ( who would eventually marry Shelley and become Mary Shelley ).

Principle of Population was specifically written as a rebuttal to thinkers like William Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet, and Malthus's own father who believed in the perfectibility of humanity.

Governor Mills Godwin, 1966 – 1970, 1974 – 1978, was the father of the statewide community college system.

Critic Pamela Clemit resists a purely autobiographical reading and argues that Mathilda is an artfully crafted novel, deploying confessional and unreliable narrations in the style of her father, as well as the device of the pursuit used by Godwin in his Caleb Williams and by Mary Shelley in Frankenstein.

Wulfnoth Cild ( died c. 1014 ) was a South Saxon thegn who is regarded by historians as the probable father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and thus the grandfather of King Harold Godwinson.

It is known that Godwin's father was called Wulfnoth, and in the view of Frank Barlow, the Godwin family's massive estates in Sussex are indisputable evidence that the Wulfnoth in question was the South Saxon thegn.

Some say it was his father Earl Godwin who pleaded his case to the King, others that is was Aldred, or Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester who had met him in Flanders returning from his pilgrimage.

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

Its assets were: The Bishop Odo of Bayeux held the monastery ( the site of the Cathedral ), the ' tide-way ' - which still exists as St Mary Overy dock ; the King owned the ' church ' ( probably St Olave's ) and its ' tidal stream ' ( St Olave's Dock ); the dues of the ' waterway ' or mooring place were shared between the ' King ' and Earl Godwin ; the King also had the ' toll ' of the strand ; and the ' men of Southwark ' had the right to a ' haw and its toll '.

He may have owed the promotion to Earl Godwin of Wessex, the father-in-law of King Edward ; although some historians dispute this.

The appointment was either a reward from Godwin for Stigand's support during the conflict with Edward or a reward from King Edward for successfully negotiating a peaceful conclusion to the crisis in 1052.

King Edward, on his deathbed, left the crown to his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson, the son of Earl Godwin.

Events came to a head at a council held at Gloucester in September 1051, when Robert accused Earl Godwin of plotting to kill King Edward.

The Life of Saint Edward claims that while Godwin was in exile Robert tried to persuade King Edward to divorce Edith, Godwin's daughter, but Edward refused and instead she was sent to a nunnery.

When it became apparent that Godwin would be returning, Robert quickly left England with Bishop Ulf of Dorcester and Bishop William of London, probably once again taking Wulfnoth and Hakon with him as hostages, whether with the permission of King Edward or not.

Ian Walker, author of the most recent scholarly biography of Harold Godwinson, suggests that it was Robert, while in exile after the return of Godwin, who testified that King Edward had nominated Duke William to be Edward's heir.

During the reign of King Canute the earldom was conferred on Godwin at some time after 1020.

Thereafter Godwin rose to become, in King Edward's time, the most powerful man in the kingdom.

Queen Edith, the daughter of Earl Godwin and wife of King Edward the Confessor had a hunting lodge at Mentmore, between the site of the present Mentmore Towers and the hamlet of Crafton at a site known as Berrystead.

Howatch followed a similar theme in her vast saga, The Wheel of Fortune, where the story of the Godwin family of Oxmoon in Gower, South Wales, is in fact a re-creation in a modern form of the story of the Plantagenet family of Edward III of England, the modern characters being created from those of his eldest son Edward of Woodstock ( The Black Prince ) and his wife Joan of Kent, John of Gaunt and his mistress and then wife, Katherine Swynford, Richard II ( son of Edward of Woodstock ), Henry IV ( son of John of Gaunt ) and Henry IV's eldest son King Henry V. Again the mansion represents the throne.

Later, the manor of Chich ( now St Osyth ) in Essex was assumed as part of his royal demesne by the Dane King Canute, who granted it to Earl Godwin, and by him it was given to Christ Church, Canterbury.

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

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.

Godwin became a King James only fundamentalist very much in line with his mentor, Jack Chick, who publishes his works.

The manor was originally run by Godwin, Earl of Wessex and later by his son Harold Godwinson the last Saxon King of England.

Earl Godwin and King Edward were reconciled the following year, so Harold was restored to his earldom — but not for long.