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Birth:          ABT  973 Wessex
Death:          BEF Jun 1014 

Notes
rebel in 1009
held Compton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfnoth_Cild
Wulfnoth Cild (died c. 1014) was a South Saxon thegn who is regarded by historians 
as the probable father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and thus the grandfather of King 
Harold Godwinson.
Biography[edit]

It is known that Godwin's father was called Wulfnoth, and in the view of Frank Barlow, 
the Godwin family's massive estates in Sussex are indisputable evidence that the 
Wulfnoth in question was the South Saxon thegn.[1]

In 1008, King Æthelred the Unready ordered the construction of a fleet, and the 
following year 300 ships assembled at Sandwich, Kent to meet a threatened Viking 
invasion. There Brihtric, brother of Eadric Streona, brought unknown charges against 
Wulfnoth before the king, unjustly according to John of Worcester.[2] Wulfnoth then 
fled with twenty ships and ravaged the south coast. Brihtric followed with eighty, but 
his fleet was driven ashore by a storm and burnt by Wulfnoth. After the loss of a third 
of the fleet the remaining ships were withdrawn to London, and the Vikings were able 
to invade Kent unopposed. Æthelred almost certainly confiscated Wulfnoth's property 
as a result.[3][4][5]

Wulfnoth Cild had died by June 1014.[6]

Legacy[edit]

The church of St. Mary Woolnoth in London was founded by an Anglo-Saxon 
nobleman named Wulfnoth, who may be the same as Wulfnoth Cild of Sussex.

Parents
____ Aethelmaer Cild "the Great" (ABT  950 - ABT 1016)
____ Aethelthrith (ABT  950 - )

Siblings
OF WESSEX Wulfnoth (Cild) (ABT  973 - BEF Jun 1014)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
____ Godwin (ABT  992 - 15 Apr 1053)

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