*Swein Godwinsson Earl of Mercia
born about 1021/24
died 29 September
1052 Lycia, Constantinople, Byzantium
father:
*Godwin
I Earl of Kent and Wessex
born about 0988 Wessex, England
died 15 January
1053 Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England
mother:
*Gytha
Thorgilsdottir
born about 0997 Halland, Sweden
died after 1066 Flanders
siblings:
*son
of Godwin I Earl of Kent and Wessex
*Harold II King
of England born about 1019 England
died 14 October 1066 Battle of Hastings,
Senlac Hill, Sussex, England
Edith Godwinsdatter born about 1020 died 8
December 1075
Tostig Earl of Northumberland born 1025/30 Wessex, England
died 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge
Gyrth Godwinsson Earl of East Anglia died
14 October 1066 Battle of Hastings, Senlac Hill, Sussex, England
Leofwin Godwinsson
died 14 October 1066 Battle of Hastings, Senlac Hill, Sussex, England
Wulfnoth
Godwinsson
Elgiva Godwinsdottir
Gunhilda Godwinsdattir born about 1024
died 24 August 1087 Bruges, Flanders
siblings (possibly by Thyra Sveinsdottir):
Waeltheow
of Wessex? died after 1066 in the prison of William the Conqueror
Morcar
of Northumbria? died September 1066 in battle near York
Edwin of Mercia?
died about 1067 Argyll, Scotland
Gytha (Edgyth) of Wessex?
Herbert
Fitzgodwin?
Alfgar of Wessex? born about 1038?
spouse:
*Edwina
Abbess of Leominster
(end of information).
children:
?*daughter
of Swein (of Mercia?)
Tostig of Mercia
Haakon of Mercia
biographical
and/or anecdotal:
notes or source:
LDS
ancestry.com
"Biographical
Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Great Britain" by Mike Ashley