Family:
Bibliography
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Barlow, Lundie W, The Antecedents of Earl Godwine of Wessex, NEHGR v111 (Jan 1957) pp30-38. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Barlow Godwine p[0-9]*].
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Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
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Weir, Alison, Britain's Royal Families, The Complete Genealogy, London: Bodley Head, 1989. Nypl ARF 89-26908 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weir RoyalFam p[0-9]*].
Sources for birth and parent Information
- date:
- younger son [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p222],
- parents:
- [Ref: Barlow Godwine p36, Keats-Rohan DD p222, Weir RoyalFam p35],
- brother:
- Harold II [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p222]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p222, Weir RoyalFam p35]
- 1066 [Ref: Barlow Godwine p36],
- place:
- [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p222, Weir RoyalFam p35]
Research Notes:
1051: accompanied his family into exile [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p222]
c1055: while still a young, given Norfolk, part of the earldom of East
Anglia, in succession to Aelfgar who was exiled in 1055 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD
p222]
1057: created Earl of East Anglia [Ref: Weir RoyalFam p35]
1059: first attests as earl, holding all of East Anglia [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD
p222]
1061: accompanied his brother Tostig to Rome [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p222]
1066: uncertain whether he fought at Stamfordbridge; but was certainly
present at Hastings on 14 Oct and died there [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p222]
Pedigree of Gryth Earl Of East Anglia
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Ethelred I King Of England
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Aethelhelm Ealdorman Of Wiltshire
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Wulfrida
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Aethelfrith Ealdorman
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Aethelwulf Ealdorman
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Aethelgyth
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Eadric Ealdorman
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Aethelwerd The Historian Ealdorman In Wessex
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Aethelgifu
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Aethelmaer Cild The Great Ealdorman In Devonshire
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Aethelflaed
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Wulfnoth Cild Thegn In Sussex
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Aethelthrith
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Godwin Ealdorman Of Wessex
Gryth Earl Of East Anglia
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Eric III King Of Sweden
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Eymund King Of Sweden
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Eric V King Of Swedes And Goths
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Bjorn The Old King Of Sweden
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Olaf King Of Sweden
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Styr-Bjorn
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Thrand Jarl Of Sula
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Ingelberg
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Jarl Thorkill Sprakalaeg
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Horda Knut King Of Denmark
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Frotho King Of Denmark
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Harold Parcus King Of Denmark
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Gorm Del Gammel King Of Denmark
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Harald Blaatand King Of Denmark
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Egbert The Great King Of England
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Ethelwolf King Of England
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Raedburh
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Ethelred I King Of England
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Oslac Great Butler Of England
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Osburh
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Thyra
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Wulfrida
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Thyra
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Gunthilda
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Githa
Descendants of Gryth Earl Of East Anglia