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Bibliography
  1. 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]*].
  2. 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]*].
  3. 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
                                                                /-----Ethelred I King Of England
                                                       /-----Aethelhelm Ealdorman Of Wiltshire
                                                      |         \-----Wulfrida
                                              /-----Aethelfrith Ealdorman
                                             |        |         /-----Aethelwulf Ealdorman
                                             |         \-----Aethelgyth
                                     /-----Eadric Ealdorman
                            /-----Aethelwerd The Historian Ealdorman In Wessex
                           |         \-----Aethelgifu
                   /-----Aethelmaer Cild The Great Ealdorman In Devonshire
                  |         \-----Aethelflaed
          /-----Wulfnoth Cild Thegn In Sussex
         |         \-----Aethelthrith
 /-----Godwin Ealdorman Of Wessex
Gryth Earl Of East Anglia
|                                                               /-----Eric III King Of Sweden
|                                                      /-----Eymund King Of Sweden
|                                             /-----Eric V King Of Swedes And Goths
|                                    /-----Bjorn The Old King Of Sweden
|                           /-----Olaf King Of Sweden
|                  /-----Styr-Bjorn
|                 |        |         /-----Thrand Jarl Of Sula
|                 |         \-----Ingelberg
|         /-----Jarl Thorkill Sprakalaeg
|        |        |                                             /-----Horda Knut King Of Denmark
|        |        |                                    /-----Frotho King Of Denmark
|        |        |                           /-----Harold Parcus King Of Denmark
|        |        |                  /-----Gorm Del Gammel King Of Denmark
|        |        |         /-----Harald Blaatand King Of Denmark
|        |        |        |        |                           /-----Egbert The Great King Of England
|        |        |        |        |                  /-----Ethelwolf King Of England
|        |        |        |        |                 |         \-----Raedburh
|        |        |        |        |         /-----Ethelred I King Of England
|        |        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Oslac Great Butler Of England
|        |        |        |        |        |         \-----Osburh
|        |        |        |         \-----Thyra
|        |        |        |                 |         /-----(Unk)
|        |        |        |                  \-----Wulfrida
|        |         \-----Thyra
|        |                  \-----Gunthilda
 \-----Githa



Descendants of Gryth Earl Of East Anglia
1. Gryth Earl Of East Anglia