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Edith Of WessexEdith of Wessex, (c.1020-December 19 1075), married King Edward the Confessor of England in 1045. The marriage produced no children because Edward took a vow of celibacy. Upon Edward's death, in January 1066, he was succeeded by Edith's brother, Harold Godwinson. Edith was the daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, one of the most powerful man in England at the time of King Edward's rule. Her mother Gytha Thorkelsdttir was daughter to Torkel Styrbjrnsson, granddaughter to Styrbjrn Starke and Tyra and great-granddaughter to both Olof (II) Bjrnsson and his sister Gyrid by Harold I of Denmark. Wessex, Edith Wessex, Edith Wessex, Edith
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