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Wulfnoth Cild, född 975 i England, död cirka 1014
i Hampshire, England. Earl of Sussex.
http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00291976&tree=LEO
Wulfnoth Cild (died 1015) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman who is thought to have been the father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and
thus the grandfather of King Harold Godwinson . Earl Godwin's father was certainly named Wulfnoth, a relatively uncommon
name. He is thus assumed to be the same person as Wulfnoth Cild, a thegn in Sussex .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfnoth_Cild
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.
In 1008, King Æthelred the Unready ordered the construction of a fleet, and the following year 300 ships assembled at Sandwich
in Kent to meet a threatened Viking invasion. There Brihtric, brother of Eadric Streona, brought unknown charges against
Wulfnoth before the king, unjustly according to John of Worcester. Wulfnoth then fled with twenty ships and ravaged the south
coast. Brihtric followed with eighty, but his fleet was driven ashore by a storm and burnt by Wulfnoth. After the loss of a third of
the fleet the remaining ships were withdrawn to London, and the Vikings were able to invade Kent unopposed. Æthelred almost
certainly confiscated Wulfnoth's property as a result.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wessex_family_tree
Leo: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef. 1700, Baltimore, 1995, Weis, Frederick Lewis;
Sheppard, Walter, Reference: 5.
Gift med
Thyra Svensdatter, född cirka 980
i Danmark, död 1018 i Wessex, England.
Barn:
Godwine Wulfnothsson, född 987, död 1053-04-15
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