Godgifu Princess of England
- Born: 1004, Wessex, England
- Marriage (1): Dreux, Count of the French Vexin 141,160
- Marriage (2): Eustace II Comte de Boulogne 160
- Died: 1055, England at age 51 160
General Notes:
~An Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk, "Predigree of Count Eustace," p. 14. Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, who was at the battle of Hastings, son of Eustace I, Count of Boulogne, married as his first wife, Goda, daughter of Ethelred II and sister of Edward the Confessor. 782
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141 Dreux, Count of the French Vexin. He married Godgifu, sister of King Edward the Confessor, and daughter of Ethelred, King of England, by his second wife, Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normany. Dreux died in 1035 on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Robert I of Normandy. His widow married, as his first wife, Eustace II, Count of Boulgne, and died without issure by her second husband who survived her.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Sudeley), Vol. XIIA, p. 411
Godgifu married Dreux, Count of the French Vexin 141.,160 (Dreux, Count of the French Vexin died in 1035 in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land 160.)
Godgifu next married Eustace II Comte de Boulogne, son of Eustace I Comte de Boulogne and Maud de Lovaine.160 (Eustace II Comte de Boulogne was born about 1030 and died about 1080.)
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