Edith of Wessex • Topzle

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. The principal source on her life is a work she herself commissioned, the Vita Ædwardi Regis or the Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster, which is inevitably biased.

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Tenure

23 January 1045 – 5 January 1066

Coronation

23 January 1045, Old Minster, Winchester

Born

Gythac. 1025

Died

18 December 1075Winchester, Hampshire, England

Burial

Westminster Abbey, England

Spouse

Edward the Confessor

House

Godwin

Father

Godwin, Earl of Wessex

Mother

Gytha Thorkelsdóttir

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VacantTitle last held byEmma of Normandy

English royalty

VacantTitle last held byEmma of Normandy

English royalty

Queen consort of the English 23 January 1045 – 4 January 1066

English royalty

Succeeded byEdith of Mercia

English royalty
VacantTitle last held byEmma of Normandy	Queen consort of the English 23 January 1045 – 4 January 1066	Succeeded byEdith of Mercia

References

Pauline Stafford, 'Edith, Edward's Wife and Queen', in Richard Mortimer ed., Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legen

Historians disagree whether this was partly written in 1065–66, before Edward's death, or was a unitary work of the late

Williams, ODNB, Edith

Harold Godwinson

Mason House of Godwine p. 10

Rex Harold p. 31

Tyler, 2017, pp. 209

Stafford, 2009, pp. 121–126

Gytha Thorkelsdóttir

Frank Barlow, Edward the Confessor, Yale University Press: London, 1997, p. 82.

Stafford, 2009, pp. 133–138

Barlow, p. 167.

Barlow, pp. 189–190.

Stafford, 2009, pp. 126–128

William M. Aird, Tostig, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27571

Stafford, 2009, p. 135

Stafford, 2009, p. 125

Stafford, Queen Emma and Queen Edith, pp. 278–9.

BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour, 22 May 2006

https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2006_21_mon.shtml

Carola Hicks, The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life of a Masterpiece .mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- body:not(.skin-timeless)