Harold of Wessex King of England
- Born: Abt 1022, Wessex, England 160
- Marriage: Ældgyth Princess of Northumberland 160
- Died: 14 Oct 1066, Battle of Hastings, England about age 44 160
 Information about this person:
• Web Reference: Harold II from the English Monarchs.
Harold II had been born around 1020-22, half Saxon and half Dane, he was the eldest son of Godwine, Earl of Wessex and Kent and Gytha, the daughter of Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark. Making him the first cousin of King Canute. On his father's side he was descended from a cadet line of the House of Wessex, Godwine's father, Wulfnoth Cild, was the fourth great-grandson of Ethelred I.
• Background Information. 160
Harold II "Godwinson," was born about 1022 and slain in the Battle of astings on 14 Oct 1066. he was Ealorman of East Anglia, succeeding his father 1053 Ealdorman of Wessex, King of England 1066 when he succeeded Edward the Confessor. Harold II married as her second husband, Edith, widow of Gruffydd I ap Llywelyn, Prince of North Wales.
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 1b:24
Harold married Ældgyth Princess of Northumberland, daughter of Ælfgar III of Mercia and Ælfgifu of Wessex Queen Of England.160 (Ældgyth Princess of Northumberland was born about 1034 in Mercia, England and died after 1086.)
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