Edith discovering King Harold's corpse after the Battle of Hastings (Horace Vernet)
Born
c. 1025
Died
c. 1086 (age about 61)
Spouse
Harold Godwinson
Issue
Godwin Edmund Magnus Gunhild Gytha Ulf
Father
Thorkell the Tall
Mother
a daughter of Ethelred the Unready?
Edith the Fair (Old English: Ealdgȳð Swann hnesce, "Edyth the Gentle Swan"; born c. 1025, died c. 1086), also known as Edith Swanneck,[note 1] was one of the wealthiest magnates in England on the eve of the Norman conquest, and may also have been the first wife of King Harold Godwinson.[1] "Swanneck" (or Swan-Neck) comes from the folk etymology which made her in Old English as swann hnecca, "swan neck", which was actually most likely a corrupted form of swann hnesce, "Gentle Swan".[2] She is sometimes confused with Ealdgyth, daughter of Earl Ælfgar of Mercia, who was queen during Harold's reign.
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