Wulfnoth Cild

• Preferred Name: Wulfnoth Cild^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Alternate Name: Wulfnoth Cild Walfroth de Wessex
  
• Gender: M
  
• Church+of+St.+Mary+Woolnoth: with note: Description: The church of St. Mary Woolnoth in London was founded by an Anglo-Saxon nobleman named Wulfnoth, who may be the same as Wulfnoth Cild of Sussex.
  
• Birth: 983 in Sussex, England at LATI: N0.981 LONG: E0.3385 with note: reformatted
  
• FSID: 949X-7G7
  
• Death: 1014
  
• LdsEndowment: 5 AUG 1898 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• LdsBaptism: 2 AUG 1897 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wulfnoth Cild (died c. 1014) was a South Saxon thegn who is regarded by historians as the probable father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and thus the grandfather of King Harold Godwinson.
  Biography
  It is known that Godwin's father was called Wulfnoth, and in the view of Frank Barlow, the Godwin family's massive estates in Sussex are indisputable evidence that the Wulfnoth in question was the South Saxon thegn.[1]
  
  In 1008, King Æthelred the Unready ordered the construction of a fleet, and the following year 300 ships assembled at Sandwich, Kent to meet a threatened Viking invasion. There Brihtric, brother of Eadric Streona, brought unknown charges against Wulfnoth before the king, unjustly according to John of Worcester.[2] Wulfnoth then fled with twenty ships and ravaged the south coast. Brihtric followed with eighty, but his fleet was driven ashore by a storm and burnt by Wulfnoth. After the loss of a third of the fleet the remaining ships were withdrawn to London, and the Vikings were able to invade Kent unopposed. Æthelred almost certainly confiscated Wulfnoth's property as a result.[3][4][5]
  
  Wulfnoth Cild had died by June 1014.[6]
  
  Legacy
  The church of St. Mary Woolnoth in London was founded by an Anglo-Saxon nobleman named Wulfnoth, who may be the same as Wulfnoth Cild of Sussex.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfnoth_Cild
  
  === Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy ===
  Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 34. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family
  
  === ANGLO SAXON BISHOPS, KINGS , AND NOBLES, ===
  ANGLO SAXON BISHOPS, KINGS , AND NOBLES, P.359; THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY P.26; KEISER UND KOENIG HISTOIRE UND GENEALOGISHE (GS NUMBER Q940 D22L) PAART 1 P.98; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 602; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.19;
  
  === Betham's: Royal Genealogical Tables Tab ===
  Betham's: Royal Genealogical Tables Tab 602 M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 19 W H Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry P. 26
  
  === Source: Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral ===
  Source: Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots, Seventh Edition, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, [1992], 1B-21. Theign in Sussex about 1007; held Compton, revolted 1009.
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
  Wulfnoth, Cyld of Sussex1
  M, #106667
  Last Edited=12 Feb 2005
  
  Wulfnoth, Cyld of Sussex gained the title of Cyld of Sussex.1
  Child of Wulfnoth, Cyld of Sussex
  Godwine, Earl of Wessex + b. c 987, d. 15 Apr 10531
  Citations
  [S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 34. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family
  
  === Source: Ancestral Roots, Seventh Edition ===
  Source: Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots, Seventh Edition, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, [1992], 1B-21. Theign in Sussex about 1007; held Compton, revolted 1009.
  
  Last Changed: 11 April 2014

1. Godwin Wulfnothsson Earl of Wessex, b. 983 in Sussex, England     d. 15 APR 1053 in Winchester, Hampshire, England

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2. Title: Wikipedia: Wulfnoth Cild
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfnoth_Cild;
   
3. Title: The PEDIGREE of Wulfnoth Cild (Theign) of SUSSEX
   Publication: Name: https://www.fabpedigree.com/s000/f580634.htm;
   Note: The PEDIGREE of Wulfnoth Cild (Theign) of SUSSEX aka Wylfnoth Cied av KENT; poss. aka Wulfnot OSULVSEN Born: abt. 983 Died: abt. 1015 HM George I's 19-Great Grandfather. HRE Ferdinand I's 16-Great Grandfather. U.S. President [MONROE]'s 27-Great Grandfather. PM Churchill's 26-Great Grandfather. HM Margrethe II's 25-Great Grandfather. Wm. von Bismarck's 24-Great Grandfather. Poss. Agnes Harris's 22-Great Grandfather. Poss. `Osawatomie' Brown's 23-Great Grandfather. poss. Wives/Partners: Thyra SVENDSDATTER av DANMARK ; (Miss) of WESSEX Child: Godwin (Godwine) of WESSEX _______ _______ _______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ _____ ____ ____ / -- Eaba of WESSEX + ====> [ 255 ,,p,&] / -- Ealhmund (EAFFING) of KENT / -- Egbert III `the Great' of ENGLAND / \ -- Alburga AETHELBRYHTING of K. + ==&=> [ 255 ,,xD,&] / -- Ethelwulf (2nd King) of ENGLAND / \ -- Redburh (Redburga) + ====> [ 255 ,,x,&] / -- Aethelred I (King) of WESSEX (& ENGLAND) | \ / -- Oslac of the ISLE OF WIGHT + ====> [ 234 ,,q,&] | \ -- Osburga OSLACING of ISLE OF WIGHT / \ -- (NN), first wife / -- Aethelhelm (Earldorman) of WILTSHIRE | \ / -- Cenwulf (King) of MERCIA + ====> [ 247 ,,q,&] | | / -- father of Burgred | | / \ -- Elfrida / \ -- poss. Wulfthryth of MERCIA / -- Aethelfrith (Earldorman) of WESSEX (870? - 927?) | \ / -- Esne + ====> [ 255 ,,p,&] | | / -- Mucel (Mucil) (? - 840?) | | / | OR: poss. Edwald of EAST ANGLIA + ==&=> [ 243 ,,qD,&] | | / -- Aethelred MUCEL of the GAINI (MERCIA) | | / -- Aethelwulf of MERCIA (? - 903?) | | | \ / -- Wigmund of MERCIA + ====> [ 255 ,,x,&] | | | | / | or: poss. King Coenwulf (son of Cuthbert, q.v.) | | | \ -- Eadburga of MERCIA (830? - ?) | | / \ -- Elfleda of MERCIA + ====> [ 248 ,,q,&] / \ -- Aethelglyth (Elswitha Ethelgyth) of MERCIA / -- Eadric (of WASHINGTON) in/of WESSEX (? - 949+) / -- Aethelwerd I (Earldorman) of WESSEX (? - 998+) / \ -- Aethelgifu / -- Aethelmar Cild (Theign) of SUSSEX (? - 1016?) | \ | or: poss. Osulf AETHELMARSEN (Aethelmar's son) / \ -- Aethelflaed - Wulfnoth Cild (Theign) of SUSSEX \ \ -- Aethelthrith
   
4. Title: Wulfnoth Cild in "Ancestry of the Godwins" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry_of_the_Godwins;
   Note: Very little is known for certain of the ancestry of the Godwins, the family of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold II. When King Edward the Confessor died in January 1066 his closest relative was his great-nephew, Edgar the Ætheling, but he was young and lacked powerful supporters. Harold was the head of the most powerful family in England and Edward's brother-in-law, and he became king. In September 1066 Harold defeated and killed King Harald Hardrada of Norway at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, and Harold was himself defeated and killed the following month by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. The family is named after Harold's father, Earl Godwin, who had risen to a position of wealth and influence in the 1020s under Danish King Cnut the Great. In 1045 Godwin's daughter, Edith, married King Edward the Confessor, and by the mid-1050s Harold and his brothers had become dominant, almost monopolising the English earldoms. Godwin's origin is obscure. He was probably the son of Wulfnoth Cild, a South Saxon thegn, but Wulfnoth's ancestry is disputed. A few genealogists and historians argue that he was descended from Alfred the Great's elder brother, King Æthelred I (865–71), but almost all historians of Anglo-Saxon England reject this theory.