Edith of Wessex was the wife of which pre-Norman English king, born c. 1003 AD?
Edith of Wessex Edith of Wessex Edith of Wessex ( 1025 – 18 December 1075) was a Queen of England. Her husband was Edward the Confessor, whom she married on 23 January 1045. 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. Edith was the daughter of Godwin, the most powerful earl in England. Her mother Gytha was sister of Ulf, a Danish earl who was Cnut the Great's
Godwin, Earl of Wessex "Lady Godiva of Coventry" (1955), by Norman Rodway in the BBC TV series "Churchill's People" (1974–75), and by Bill Wallis in an episode of the British educational TV series "Historyonics" entitled "1066" (2004). Godwin is also the lead character of Justin Hill's novel, "Shieldwall" (2011). Godwin, Earl of Wessex Godwin of Wessex (; d. 15 April 1053) was one of the most powerful earls in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors. Cnut made him the first Earl of Wessex. Godwin was the father of King Harold Godwinson and Edith of Wessex, wife of King Edward