Tostig Godwinson
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Tostig Godwinson was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson. After being exiled by his brother, Tostig supported the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada's invasion of Engla
Drawing of the Kirkdale sundial in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, with Earl Tostig's name in the dedication IN TOSTI DAGVM EORL+ ('in Earl Tostig's day', at bottom right)
Judith of Flanders was, by her successive marriages to Tostig Godwinson and Welf I, Countess of Northumbria and Duchess of Bavaria.
Tostig Godwinson
…of the Anglo-Saxon nobleman Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, the daughter of Danish chieftain Thorgil Sprakling. In 1051, he married Judith of Flanders, the only child of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders by his second wife, Eleanor of Normandy. In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded twenty-six vills or…
Weingartener Heilig-Blut-Tafel, 1489; Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart: Judith of Flanders marries Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, her second husband