Edith of Wessex
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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. Th
Coronation of Queen Edith, illustrated by Matthew Paris in the 13th century
House of Godwin
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The House of Godwin was the house consisting of the Anglo-Saxon family who were one of the leading noble families in England during the last fifty years before the Norman Conquest. Its most famous mem
Godwin and his family return by ship to the court of king Edward the Confessor in 1052. From a 13th-century manuscript of the Vita Ædwardi Regis
The coronation of Harold Godwinson, from the Bayeux Tapestry
Seal of King Inge II of Norway