Godwin, Earl of Wessex (born 1001)

Godwin, Earl of Wessex

11th-century Anglo-Norse nobleman

Godwin of Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman who became one of the most powerful earls in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors. Cnut made Godwin the first Earl of Wessex. Godwin was the father of King Harold II and of Edith of Wessex, who in 1045…