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Godbout – Racicot / LeBeuf – LaHaye
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 Abt 1022 - 1066 (~ 44 years)
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| Name |
Harold II Godwinson King of England [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Born |
Abt 1022 |
Wessex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
1044 |
| Earl of East Anglia |
| Occupation |
1051 |
| Banished from the kingdom with his father after staging an unsuccessful rebellion against King Edward III |
| Military |
1052 |
| Landed an invasion force in the south of England with his father and the king had to restore his family in favor |
| Occupation |
1053 |
| Earl of Wessex (succeeded his father as Ealdorman) |
| Occupation |
1058 |
| Succeeded his father-in-law, Alfgar, to East Anglia following his banishment |
| Military |
1063 |
| Commanded a successful campaign against the Welsh (supported by his brother, Tostig, Earl of Northumbria) |
| Occupation |
1064 |
| Acted as an emissary from Edward the Confessor to the court of William of Normandy |
| Occupation |
1064 |
| Allegedly swore an oath of fealty to William of Normandy and relinquished any personal claim to the throne |
| Occupation |
1066 |
| Edward III named him to succeed (on his deathbed) instead of the legitimate heir Edgar Ætheling (William of Normandy was not amused) |
| Occupation |
6 Jan 1066 |
| Coronation in London |
| Occupation |
6 Jan 1066 |
| Usurped the throne of Edward the Confessor (being the nephew of Edward's wife) and denying it to William of Normandy, despite the promise |
| Military |
25 Sep 1066 |
| Defeated his brother Tostig at Stamford Bridge, who had been forced to fight him, and Harald Hardraade, King of Norway, whom he kills |
| Military |
14 Oct 1066 |
| Surprised by William, Duke of Normandy, when the Duke emerged from the great forest of Andred where he and his forces had set camp |
| Baptism |
Isle of Thanet, Kent, England |
| Died |
14 Oct 1066 |
Senlac, Sussex, England |
| Cause: Slain at the battle of Hastings |
| Buried |
Waltham Abbey, Essex, England |
| Person ID |
I4054 |
Godbout |
| Last Modified |
18 Apr 2017 |
| Father |
Godwin of Wessex, b. 1001, Wessex, England , d. 15 Apr 1053, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 52 years) |
| Mother |
Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, b. 997, Halland, Sweden |
| Married |
1019 |
Halland, Sweden |
| Family ID |
F2252 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S751] Histoire de Normandie, Orderic Vital (traduction par Louis-François du Bois), (J.-L.-J. Brière, 68 rue Saint-André des Arts, Paris, 1825-1827), Volume 2, pp. 111-113, 116-117 & 136-145.
- [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume IX, p. 703.
- [S629] Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Herausgegeben Von Detlev Schwennicke, (Verlag Von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Deutschland, éditions 1978 à 1993), Volume 2, p. 78.
- [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 6:1B-23 & 151:176.
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