Sweyn Godwinson Earl of Hereford^[1]

Abt 1023 - 1052  (~ 29 years)

• Name	Sweyn Godwinson Earl of Hereford
  Born	Abt 1023	Isle of Thanet, Kent, England
  Christened	Isle of Thanet, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Sep 1052	Constantinople, Byzantium
  Buried	Oct 1052
  Person ID	I503159	August 2023
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Godwin Earl of Wessex,   b. Abt 978, Sussex, England ,   d. 15 Apr 1053, Winchester, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 75 years)
  Mother	Gytha Thorkelsdóttir,   b. 997, Halland, Krokstad, Bohuslän, Sverige ,   d. 1069, St. Omer, Flandern  (Age 72 years)
  Married	1019	Halland, Sweden
  Family ID	F500812	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] FamilySearch Family Tree, (MyHeritage), https://www.myheritage.dk/research/collection-40001/familysearch-family-tree?itemId=1270681808&action=showRecord (Reliability: 4). Sweyn Godwinson Earl of Hereford&lt;br&gt;Køn: Mand&lt;br&gt;Fødsel: Cirka 1023 - Isle of Thanet, Kent, England&lt;br&gt;Dåb: Isle of Thanet, Kent, England&lt;br&gt;Ægteskab: Ægtefælle: Abbess Edgifa Leo - 1046&lt;br&gt;Død: 29. sep. 1052 - Constantinople, Byzantium&lt;br&gt;Gravlagt: 1052 okt.&lt;br&gt;Beskæftigelse: Earl of Mercia&lt;br&gt;Forældre: Godwin, Earl of Wessex, Gytha Earl of Wessex (født Thorkelsdóttir)&lt;br&gt;Ægtefæller: Abbess Edgifa Hereford (født Leo), Edwina Hereford (født Abbess of Leominster)&lt;br&gt;Børn: Hakon Sweynsson, Tostig, Thorkellsson (født of Mercia)&lt;br&gt;Søskende: Druella Kent OBrien (født Godwinsdottir), Earl Swegen of Mercia, Harold Godwinson, Gunhild Godwinsdotter, Edith King of the English of Wessex (født Godwinsdottir), Aelfgifu Godwinssdottir, Tostig Godwinson, Lady Marigard Of Avon and Wessex, Gyrth Godwinsson Earl of East Anglia, Earl Leofwine of Kent Godwinson, Wulfnoth of Wessex Godwinsson, Alfgar Godwineson&lt;br&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yderligere information: <br> <br>TitleOfNobility: Earl of Herefordshire<br>LifeSketch: SVEIN ([1021/23]-Constantinople[531] 29 Sep 1052). Florence of Worcester specifies that Svein was the eldest son of "earl Godwin and Githa"[532]. Orderic Vitalis names “Suenum, Tosticum, Heraldum, Guorth, Elgarum, Leofvinum et Wlnodum” as the seven sons of “Githa Goduini comitis relicta”[533]. He was created Earl in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire and Somerset in 1043 by King Edward "the Confessor". He led an expedition into South Wales in 1046, allied with Gruffydd ap Llywellyn King of Gwynedd in North Wales. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that he seduced Eadgifu Abbess of Leominster on his way back[534], for which he was outlawed by King Edward, who divided his earldom between his brother Harold and his cousin Bjørn Ulfsen. The Chronicle records that Svein fled to Bruges in 1047, then to Denmark the year after[535]. He returned to England in 1049, murdered his cousin Bjørn Ulfsen, and was exiled again in 1049 by an assembly of the whole army at Sandwich, this time taking refuge with Baudouin IV Count of Flanders[536]. After his father secured his recall in [1050], he was pardoned and partially reinstated[537]. After joining his father's threatened armed rebellion against the king in 1051, he was outlawed yet again and fled with his parents to Bruges. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he died while returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem[538], before the family's restoration. According to Florence of Worcester[539], Svein died "in Lycia from illness brought on by the severity of the cold". Svein is not mentioned in the Vita Ædwardi, commissioned by his sister Queen Eadgyth, presumably because his dissolute life was considered best forgotten. Svein had one illegitimate child, maybe by EADGIFU Abbess of Leominster, whom he was refused permission to marry. Per Project Medlands