Ælfgifu
Godwinssdottir
(Aelfgifu)
"Elgiva, Eadgifu"
Wessex
Born about in Wessex, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Godwin Wulfnothsson (Wessex) of Wessex
and Gytha (Thorgilsdatter) Wessex
Sister of
Svein Godwinson, Harold Godwinson (Wessex) of England, Gunhild Godwinsdottir Wessex, Ælfgar Godwinson Wessex, Tostig Godwinson, Eadgyth Godwinsdottir (Wessex) England, Leofwine Godwinson, Gyrth Godwinson and Wulfnoth (Wessex) Godwinson
[spouse(s) unknown]
Died before
before about age 31
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Mar 2011
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Biography
Aelfgifu Wessex is a member of the House of Godwin.
Ælgifu was the daughter of Godwin and Gytha.[1]
Hardly anything is known about her. According to some accounts of the period when her brother Harold was detained by the future William the Conqueror in Normandy, Harold promised that one of his sisters would marry a Norman noble, and, if this is the case, Ælfgifu may have been the sister. An "Alvevæ soror Heraldi comitis" is referred to in the Domesday Book. She died before January 1066.[1][2] An Ælfgifu depicted in the Bayeux tapestry is unlikely to be her.[3]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles Cawley. Medieval Lands Database: entry for Ælfgifu (child 10 under Godwin)
- ↑ Frank Barlow.The Godwins, Longman, 2002, p. 26 (note 32).
- ↑ Frank Barlow, The Godwins, p. 72
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