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Family: King Harold, II of England / Eadgyth, of Mercia (F72420)
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King Harold, II of England
Birth 1020 Wessex 
Christening Isle of Thanet, Kent, England Death 14 Oct 1066 Battle of Hastings, Battle, Sussex, England Burial Aft 14 Oct 1066 Waltham Abbey, Essex, England Marriage Father Godwin Wolfnothsson | F61531 Group Sheet Mother Gytha Thorkelsdóttir | F61531 Group Sheet
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Eadgyth, of Mercia
Birth 1042 Wessex, England Death 5 Aug 1086 Spalding, Lincolnshire, England Burial Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Other Spouse Gruffydd ap Llewelyn, King of Wales | F51736 Marriage Father Ælfgar Earl of Merica | F72428 Group Sheet Mother
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Gunhild de Wessex
Birth Abt 1043 London, Middlesex, England Death 1098 Burial Spouse Alain Rufus 'the Red' de Bretagne | F72425 Marriage
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Ulf Haroldson, of Wessex
Birth From 1047 to 1053 Wessex Death Aft 1087 Burial Spouse Cicely Upchurch | F72423 Marriage
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Gytha Haraldsdottir, of Wessex, Grand Princess Consort of Kievan Rus
Birth Abt 1053 Wessex, Anglo Saxon England Death 5 Feb 1107 Kyiv, Ukraine Burial Aft 5 Feb 1107 Kyiv, Ukraine Spouse Volodymir II Monomakh, Great Prince of Kiev | F72424 Marriage Bef 1076 Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine
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Notes - Ealdgyth married for a 2nd time to Harold Godwinson. The marriage was likely politically motivated and is believed to have occurred shortly before or after he became king in January 1066.
Ealdgyth's second husband, King Harold Godwinson, died on 14 October 1066 in the Battle of Hastings against William the Conqueror
- Ealdgyth married for a 2nd time to Harold Godwinson. The marriage was likely politically motivated and is believed to have occurred shortly before or after he became king in January 1066.