Re: Godwin of Wessex

[WJho...@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/11/2009 8:48:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,
mohearn_b...@yahoo.com writes:

Eadgyth could have been stepmother of Olaf, or alternatively from a
daughter of Earl Godwin probably as stepmother of Dervorgialla O'Brien a
great-grandmother of Dermot MacMorrogh, King of Leinster. In regard to the latter,
Godwin is alleged to descend from Aethelred of Wessex, and Saxo claims
that Thyra of Denmark, mother of Harold Bluetooth supposedly an ancestor of
Godwin's wife Gytha although there are conflicting accounts.>>

I'm sure there are many many fantasy genealogies out there in unsourced
databases on the internet. But I think you might consult some reliable
sources for whether Earl Godwin of Wessex was of royal English blood. I think
you'll find that no credible work says this.

Would you cite exactly where Saxo makes this claim? I want to read that
exact passage myself.

Thanks

Will Johnson

[M Sjostrom]

I think the religious nutcase who posted that postulation here, failed to
distinguish between two issues:
1) Godwin's wife was sister of earl Volf. That's seemingly something written
in Saxo too.
2) Volf and his sister would descend from kings of Denmark and kings of
Sweden - that's not an attested thing, but just one of those widely-spread
fantasy genealogies

The nutcase's way to 'cite' original sources, speaks for careless and
fantastical approach being his. There is no quotations, only a vague,
hand-waving-like mention towards to some large tome.

[M Sjostrom]

by the waym as a side observation, the nutcase who this time posted the
claim that Godwin's wife would have descended from king, has seemingly
recognized his own folly in that and recognized it's fantasy rather than
supported by any contemporary source.
Namely, when I browsed through both the rootsweb archive of this group and
the googlegroups archive of this group, neither of these actually longer had
that post where that claim was presented by that nutcase. Presumably he had
remorse over the unfounded lineage concoction, and erased his that post.
Surely it should be regarded as retraction.