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exile, perhaps in Flanders, after June, 1069.
    S IBLINGS :
    1   Edith
    ( see here , under King Edward the Confessor).
    2   Sweyn
    He was born in c. 1023, and was created Earl of Mercia in 1043. He died on 29 September, 1052, in exile, at Lycia, near Constantinople, in Byzantium.
    Sweyn had the following illegitimate issue :
    By Edgiva, Abbess of Leominster, a nun whom he abducted and with whom he contracted an uncanonical marriage:
    1  Haakon ( b. 1046/7).
    2  Tostig.
    3   Tostig
    He was born in c. 1026, and was created Earl of Northumbria in c .1055. In that year, or later, he was also created Earl of Northampton and Nottingham. He was deprived of his earldoms on 3 October, 1065. He was killed on 25 September, 1066, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in Northumberland, fighting his brother Harold II in alliance with Harold Hardraada, King of Norway. Tostig was buried in York Minster.
    Tostig married, in October, 1051 (although no record exists as to where):
    Judith
    Alternatively known as Fausta, she was the daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, by Eleanor, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. After Tostig’s death, she married secondly Welf IV, Duke of Bavaria.
    Issue of marriage:
      (i)    Skule
    He grew up, married, and had issue. No further details are recorded.
      (ii)    Ketel
    He grew up, married and had issue. No further details are recorded.
    4   Gyrth
    He was created Earl of East Anglia in 1057, and was killed on 14 October, 1066, at the Battle of Hastings, Sussex.
    5   Leofwine
    He was created Earl of Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in c .1057, and was killed on 14 October, 1066, at the Battle of Hastings, Sussex.
    6   Wulfnoth
    He died after 1087, either in Normandy, or at Salisbury, Wiltshire.
    7   Alfgar
    He is said to have been a monk at Rheims in France.
    8   Edgiva
    Nothing is known of her beyond her name.
    9   Elgiva
    She died in c .1066.
    10   Gunhilda
    She is said to have become a nun, either at St Omer in France, or at Bruges in Flanders. She died on 24 August, 1087, at Bruges, and was buried in Bruges Cathedral.
    HAROLD II
    Surnamed Godwineson, he was born in c .1020/22. He was created Earl of East Anglia in c .1045, and succeeded his father as Earl of Wessex on 15 April, 1053. He was created Earl of Hereford in 1058, and styled ‘Duke of the English’ from 1064. He succeeded Edward the Confessor as King of England on 6 January, 1066, having been chosen by the King as his successor with the support of the Witan. Harold II was crowned on 6 January, 1066, probably at St Paul’s Cathedral in London (some authorities state he was crowned at Westminster Abbey, but there is no evidence for this).
    Harold II married , either in c .1064 or in March (?), 1066, at York:
    Edith
    She was the daughter of Alfgar, Earl of Mercia, by Edgiva or Elgiva Malet, or by Elfleda, daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Northumbria. She was born in c .1042. She married firstly Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Wales (killed in 1063), either in c .1050 or in c .1056/7, and had issue:
    1  Meredith ( d .1070).
    2  Idwal ( d .1070).
    3  Nesta, who married Osbern FitzRichard, Lord of Richard’s Castle and Byton, and had issue.
    After the death of Harold, Edith went into exile on the Continent where she died after 1070.
    Issue of marriage , who may have been twins:
    1   Harold
    He was born in December, 1066, in Chester. He grew up in exile on the Continent, and died after 1098.
    2   Ulf
    He was perhaps born in December, 1066, in Chester, although some authorities have stated that he was an illegitimate son of Harold by his mistress Edith Swanneshals (below). Ulf is said by some chroniclers to have drowned at sea before 1070, but he is recorded as being alive in 1087 in Normandy, after which hedisappears from the records.
    Harold II also had the following illegitimate issue :
    Probably by Edith Swanneshals (‘Swan