num_pages: 304
description: Harold Godwineson was king of England from January 1066 until his death at Hastings in October of that year. For much of the reign of Edward the Confessor who was married to Harolds sister Eadgyth the Godwine family led by Earl Godwine had dominated English politics. In The House of Godwine Emma Mason tells the turbulent story of a remarkable family which until Harolds unexpected defeat looked far more likely than the dukes of Normandy to provide the long-term rulers of England. But for the Norman Conquest an Anglo-Saxon England ruled by the Godwine dynasty would have developed very differently from that dominated by the Normans.
language: English
title: The House of Godwine: The History of a Dynasty
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic