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Emma
Mason.
The House of Godwine: The History of a Dynasty.
London:
Hambledon
and London, 2003.
320pp.
Hardback ISBN
1852853891.
Publisher's
recommended price £25.00
Harold
Godwineson
was king of England from January 1066 until his death at Hastings on 14
October of that year. Although he was not the only candidate for the
succession
to the childless King Edward the Confessor, Harold had a far stronger
claim
than William of Normandy to the throne. For much of the reign of Edward
the Confessor, who was married to Harold's 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 Harold's 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.
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