Godwin, Earl of Wessex: Patriarch of Anglo-Saxon England

Godwin, Earl of Wessex, was arguably the most powerful man in England during the last years of Anglo-Saxon rule. He was the father of Queen Edith and future King Harold Godwinson, who fell at the iconic Battle of Hastings in October of 1066.

In this biography, we follow the life of perhaps the greatest noble of eleventh century England, a man who rose from almost nothing under the rule of the Danish conqueror Cnut the Great to the power behind the throne in the days of King Edward the Confessor.

Godwin, as effective ruler of southern England held immense influence throughout the middle decades of the 1000s and played a major part in the events leading up to William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066, setting the stage for his equally capable son to take the throne.

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