The Rise of the Godwin Family

The family tree of Earl Godwin and his sons

Home Page Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

The Farndale Story The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages The 83 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

Themes Links to other pages with historical research and related material

Related Family Stories The story of the Bakers of Highfields, the Chapmans, and other related families

			Wulfnoth Cild Thegn of Sussex
			Godwin Earl of Wessex Died 15 April 1053 Married Gytha Thorkelsdóttir
Sweyn Godwinson Earl of Herefordshire c 1020 to 1052	Harold II King of England Died 14 October 1066 Married Edith the Fair (‘Swanneck’) and Ealdgyth of Mercia	Tostig Godwinson Earl of Northumbria c 1029 to 25 September 1066 Married Judith of Flanders	Edith of Wessex Queen of England c 1025 to 18 December 1075 Married Edward the Confessor	Gyrth Godwinson Earl of East Anglia c 1032 to 14 October 1066	Leofwine Godwinson Earl of Kent C 1035 to 14 October 1066	Wulfnoth Godwinson 1040 to 1094
	Godwin c 1045 to c 1069 Edmund c 1046 to c 1069 Magnus c 1047 to c 1068 Gunhild c 1048 to c 1093 Gytha c 1053 to c 1107 Harold c 1065 to c 1098 Ulf c 1065 to c 1087	Skuli Tostisson Kongsfostre Ketil Tostisson