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Gytha Thorkelsdóttir (c. 997 – c. 1069), also called Githa, was a Danish noblewoman. She was the wife of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and the mother of King Harold Godwinson and Edith of Wessex, the latter of whom was the queen consort of King Edward the Confessor.
Mar 9, 2014 · Gytha was a Danish noblewoman who married Godwine, a rising English earl, and had a large family with him. She survived the death of many of her children, including Harold, and fled to Flanders after the Norman Conquest.
When Gytha Thorkelsdóttir was born in 0997, in Hålland, Jämtland, Sweden, her father, Thorgils Sprakaleg Styrjornsson, was 38 and her mother, Sigrid Haraldsdottir Sprakling de Danemark, was 27. She married Godwin Wulfnothson Earl of Wessex from 1019 to 1020, in Hålland, Undersåker, Jämtland, Sweden.
- Female
- Godwin Wulfnothson Earl of Wessex
Apr 9, 2006 · Gytha Thorkelsdottir (Old English: Gȳða Þorkelsdōttir), also called Githa, was the daughter of Thorgil Sprakling (also called Thorkel).[1] She married the Anglo-Saxon nobleman Godwin of Wessex. They had a large family together, of whom five sons became earls at one time or another, three remaining earls in 1066:
- Gōdwine Wulfnothsson, Earl of Wessex
Gytha of Wessex (born c. 1053/1061 – died 1098 or 1107; Old English: Gȳð) was one of several daughters of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, and his consort, Edith the Fair. Through marriage to Vladimir II Monomakh, Gytha became the grand princess of Kiev.
May 31, 2023 · After the Battle of Hastings, Gytha went to her estates in the south-west of England. She was in Exeter, Devon in 1068 when William the Conqueror demanded its submission and its citizens sought to negotiate with him. William laid siege to Exeter, and Gytha escaped before it surrendered.
After the death of Harold Godwinson, his mother, Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, took refuge in Exeter, which then became the main focus in the West Country of resistance to Norman rule. Gytha had considerable wealth and hoped for the arrival of Harold's three sons, Godwin, Edmund and Magnus, who had gone to Ireland to raise an army.
