Edith of Wessex - Wikipedia
网页Edith of Wessex (Old English: Ealdgyth; c. 1025 – 18 December 1075) was Queen of England through her marriage to Edward the Confessor from 1045 until Edward's death in 1066. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned. [1]
Edith of Wessex, sister of King Harold II - English Monarchs
网页Unlike most wives of the Saxon kings of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, Edith was crowned queen. Her father and brothers Harold and Tostig Godwineson were banished from England in 1051 by King Edward, he then proceeded to pack off his wife to a nunnery and confiscated all her lands.
Eadgyth - Wikipedia
网页Edith of England, also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth (Old English: Ēadgȳð, German: Edgitha; 910–946), a member of the House of Wessex, was a German queen from 936, by her marriage to King Otto I.
Edith of Wessex, Queen of England - The Freelance History Writer
网页2012年6月5日 · Edith of Wessex, Queen of England. The nobility of your forbears magnified you, O Edith, And you, a king’s bride, magnify your forbears. Much beauty and much wisdom were yours And also probity together with sobriety. You teach the stars, measuring, arithmetic, the art of the lyre, The ways of learning and grammar.
Edith of Wessex, Queen of England | Unofficial Royalty
网页2019年9月24日 · Edith of Wessex, Queen of England. The eldest of the three daughters of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, Edith of Wessex was born around 1025. Her father was one of the most powerful earls in England under Cnut the Great, Harold I Harefoot, Harthacnut, and his son-in-law Edward the Confessor.
The almost forgotten Edith of Wessex, Queen of England
网页2015年5月15日 · Why Edith of Wessex? She was Queen of England, not Wessex. She did not belong to the House of Wessex like her husband Edward the Confessor. Since her father was first Earl of Wessex, I suppose that is why the name stuck, though I …
Edith of Wessex - Wikiwand / articles
网页Edith of Wessex was Queen of England through her marriage to Edward the Confessor from 1045 until Edward's death in 1066. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned. The principal source on her life is a work she herself commissioned, the Vita Ædwardi Regis or the Life of King Edward who …
Edith of Wessex, Queen of England - Medievalists.net
网页We would like examine the life of a woman who was a contemporary of Queen Emma, Queen Matilda and mentor of Saint Margaret of Scotland. She was Edith of Wessex and the wife of King Edward the Confessor. Edith’s grandfather Wulfnoth and father Godwin were English nobles of the South Saxons.
Edward the Confessor and Edith - Westminster Abbey
网页This depicts fourteen scenes of events, real and legendary, in the life of the Confessor - oath of fealty to Queen Emma by nobles in the name of her unborn son, Edward's birth, his coronation, the devil dancing on the Danegeld, a thief trying to steal treasure from the king's bedchamber, Christ appearing to Edward at Mass, vision of the ...
Edith (c. 1025–1075) | Encyclopedia.com
网页Born around 1025; died on December 18, 1075, in Winchester, Hampshire, England; interred at Westminster Abbey; daughter of Godwin or Godwine (d. 1053), earl of Wessex, and Gytha; sister of Harald or Harold II Godwineson (c. 1022–1066), king of the English (r. 1066); married Edward III the Confessor (c. 1002–1066), king of the English (r ...