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interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edita_z_Wessexu" title="Edita z Wessexu – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Edita z Wessexu" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_af_Wessex" title="Edith af Wessex – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Edith af Wessex" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_von_Wessex" title="Edith von Wessex – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Edith von Wessex" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn" style="background-color: #cbe; color:inherit; font-size: 125%">Edith of Wessex</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image photo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Edith_z_Wessexu.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Edith_z_Wessexu.png" decoding="async" width="163" height="156" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="163" data-file-height="156" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;padding-top:0.2em;">Illustration of Edith by <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Paris" title="Matthew Paris">Matthew Paris</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_English_consorts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of English consorts">Queen consort of England</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Tenure</th><td class="infobox-data">23 January 1045 – <span class="nowrap">5 January 1066</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Coronation" title="Coronation">Coronation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">23 January 1045, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Old_Minster,_Winchester" title="Old Minster, Winchester">Old Minster, Winchester</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">Gytha<br /><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1025</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">18 December 1075 (aged 49–50)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Burial</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="label"><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor" title="Edward the Confessor">Edward the Confessor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">House</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Godwin" title="House of Godwin">Godwin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Godwin,_Earl_of_Wessex" title="Godwin, Earl of Wessex">Godwin, Earl of Wessex</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gytha_Thorkelsd%C3%B3ttir" title="Gytha Thorkelsdóttir">Gytha Thorkelsdóttir</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Edith of Wessex</b> (<a href="/wiki/Old_English_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old English language">Old English</a>: <i lang="ang">Ealdgyth</i>; <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1025 – 18 December 1075) was <a href="/wiki/List_of_English_consorts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of English consorts">Queen of England</a> through her marriage to <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor" title="Edward the Confessor">Edward the Confessor</a> from 1045 until Edward's death in 1066. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The principal source on her life is a work she herself commissioned, the <i><a href="/wiki/Vita_%C3%86dwardi_Regis" title="Vita Ædwardi Regis">Vita Ædwardi Regis</a></i> or the <i>Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster</i>, which is inevitably biased.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edith_of_Wessex&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Edith was the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Godwin,_Earl_of_Wessex" title="Godwin, Earl of Wessex">Godwin</a>, the most powerful earl in England. Her mother <a href="/wiki/Gytha_Thorkelsd%C3%B3ttir" title="Gytha Thorkelsdóttir">Gytha</a> was sister of <a href="/wiki/Ulf_the_Earl" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulf the Earl">Ulf</a>, a Danish earl who was <a href="/wiki/Cnut_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Cnut the Great">Cnut the Great</a>'s brother-in-law. She was probably born in or before 1027.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Edith was originally named Gytha, but renamed Ealdgyth (or Edith) when she married King Edward the Confessor.<sup id="cite_ref-Harold_Godwinson_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harold_Godwinson-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her brothers were <a href="/wiki/Sweyn_Godwinson" title="Sweyn Godwinson">Sweyn</a> (c. 1020 – 1052), <a href="/wiki/Harold_Godwinson" title="Harold Godwinson">Harold</a> (later King Harold II) (c. 1022 – 1066), <a href="/wiki/Tostig_Godwinson" title="Tostig Godwinson">Tostig</a> (c. 1026 – 1066), <a href="/wiki/Gyrth_Godwinson" title="Gyrth Godwinson">Gyrth</a> (c. 1030 – 1066), <a href="/wiki/Leofwine_Godwinson" title="Leofwine Godwinson">Leofwine</a> (c. 1035 – 1066), and <a href="/wiki/Wulfnoth_Godwinson" title="Wulfnoth Godwinson">Wulfnoth</a> (c. 1040 – 1094). Edith was the firstborn of Godwin's three daughters, which included her sisters Gunhild (or Gunhilda) (c. 1035 – 1080) and Ælfgifu (c. 1035 – ?). The exact birthdates of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Godwin" title="House of Godwin">Godwin children</a> are unknown, but Sweyn was the firstborn and Harold was the second son.<sup id="cite_ref-Mason35_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mason35-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harold was aged about 25 in 1045, which makes his birth date around 1020.<sup id="cite_ref-Harold_Godwinson_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harold_Godwinson-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rex31_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rex31-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Edith was brought up at <a href="/wiki/Wilton_Abbey" title="Wilton Abbey">Wilton Abbey</a>. She was an educated woman who spoke several languages including English, Danish, French, Irish, and Latin, skills she probably acquired at Wilton.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She remained attached to it, and in later years rebuilt its church.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her niece <a href="/wiki/Gunhild_of_Wessex" title="Gunhild of Wessex">Gunhild of Wessex</a> would also be educated at Wilton. </p><p>The <i>Vita Edwardi</i> emphasised her piety. She helped <a href="/wiki/Gisa_(bishop_of_Wells)" title="Gisa (bishop of Wells)">Giso</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Wells">Bishop of Wells</a>, secure the endowments of his see, and gave lands to <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Abbey" title="Abingdon Abbey">Abingdon Abbey</a>, but the monks of Evesham alleged that she had the relics of many monasteries brought to Gloucester so that she could select the best for herself. When Gervin, abbot of <a href="/wiki/Saint-Riquier" title="Saint-Riquier">Saint-Riquier</a>, was visiting the English court, he rejected her kiss of greeting and she took offence. Edward reproved her, and she accepted the rebuff, even going on to urge English churchmen not to kiss women, although they did not object to the custom.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Edith lost four of her brothers in a very short span. Tostig died on 25 September 1066 during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge" title="Battle of Stamford Bridge">Battle of Stamford Bridge</a>. Three others – Harold, Gyrth, and Leofwine – all died less than three weeks later on 14 October 1066, during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings" title="Battle of Hastings">Battle of Hastings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_life_as_queen">Marriage and life as queen</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edith_of_Wessex&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marriage and life as queen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Edith married Edward on 23 January 1045.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike most wives of the Saxon kings of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, Edith was crowned queen. The marriage produced no children. Later ecclesiastical writers claimed that this was either because Edward took a vow of celibacy, or because he refused to consummate the marriage because of his antipathy to Edith's family, the Godwins. However, this is dismissed by modern historians. In the view of Edward's biographer, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Barlow_(historian)" title="Frank Barlow (historian)">Frank Barlow</a>, "the theory that Edward's childlessness was due to deliberate abstention from sexual relations lacks authority, plausibility and diagnostic value."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1051, Godwin and his sons fell out with Edward and fled the country. Edith was sent to a nunnery, possibly because she was childless and Edward hoped to divorce her.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the Godwins effected their return through force in 1052, Edith was reinstated as queen. In later years, she became one of Edward's inner group of advisers.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <i>Vita Edwardi</i>, according to Barlow, "although she is always placed modestly behind the throne, the author does not minimize her power or completely conceal her will. Whenever we catch sight of her elsewhere, we see a determined woman, interfering, hard, probably bad-tempered."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the king's wife, she was responsible for his regal presentation. She commissioned works for his personal ornament, and had at least one <a href="/wiki/Goldsmith" title="Goldsmith">goldsmith</a> among her tenants. When he died, she was the richest woman in England, and the fourth wealthiest individual after the king, <a href="/wiki/Stigand" title="Stigand">Stigand</a> (the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a>), and her brother <a href="/wiki/Harold_Godwinson" title="Harold Godwinson">Harold</a>. She held land valued at between £1,570 and £2,000 per annum.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was close to her brother <a href="/wiki/Tostig_Godwinson" title="Tostig Godwinson">Tostig</a>, and in 1055 she and Harold secured his appointment as <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Northumbria" title="Earl of Northumbria">Earl of Northumbria</a>. His rule was unpopular, and in 1064 Edith was accused at court of engineering the murder of the <a href="/wiki/Northumbria" title="Northumbria">Northumbrian</a> noble Gospatrick in Tostig's interest. In 1065, Tostig was probably hunting with King Edward when the <a href="/wiki/Northumbrian_Revolt_of_1065" title="Northumbrian Revolt of 1065">northerners rebelled</a> and elected Morcar, Harold's brother-in-law, as earl. Tostig charged Harold with conspiring with the rebels, a charge which Harold purged himself of with a public oath. Edward demanded that the rebels be suppressed, but to his and Edith's fury, Harold and the English <a href="/wiki/Thegn" title="Thegn">thegns</a> refused to enforce the order. Morcar was confirmed as earl and Tostig forced into exile.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life_and_death">Later life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edith_of_Wessex&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upon Edward's death (5 January 1066), he was succeeded by Edith's brother, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Godwinson" title="Harold Godwinson">Harold Godwinson</a>. At the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge" title="Battle of Stamford Bridge">Battle of Stamford Bridge</a> (25 September 1066) and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings" title="Battle of Hastings">Battle of Hastings</a> (14 October 1066), Edith lost four of her remaining brothers (<a href="/wiki/Tostig" class="mw-redirect" title="Tostig">Tostig</a>, Harold, <a href="/wiki/Gyrth_Godwinson" title="Gyrth Godwinson">Gyrth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leofwine_Godwinson" title="Leofwine Godwinson">Leofwine</a>). Her brother <a href="/wiki/Wulfnoth_Godwinson" title="Wulfnoth Godwinson">Wulfnoth</a>, who had been given to Edward the Confessor as a hostage in 1051 and soon afterwards became a prisoner of <a href="/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a>, remained in captivity in Normandy. Edith was therefore the only senior member of the Godwin family to survive the <a href="/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest of England">Norman conquest</a> on English soil, the sons of Harold having fled to Ireland. </p><p>After Edward's death, Edith read the lives of English saints and gave information about <a href="/wiki/Cynehelm" class="mw-redirect" title="Cynehelm">St Kenelm</a> to his hagiographer, <a href="/wiki/Goscelin" title="Goscelin">Goscelin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She died at Winchester on 18 December 1075.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Paris" title="Matthew Paris">Matthew Paris</a> records a tradition that her death brought an end to an illness from which she had been suffering at some length.<sup id="cite_ref-Stafford278_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stafford278-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was buried together with her husband in <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a> and her funeral was arranged by William.<sup id="cite_ref-Stafford278_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stafford278-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The northern author of the <i>Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</i>, Manuscript D, reports: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Edith the Lady died seven nights before Christmas in <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a>, she was King Edward's wife, and the king had her brought to Westminster with great honour and laid her near King Edward, her lord.<sup id="cite_ref-Stafford278_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stafford278-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In 2006, <a href="/wiki/Carola_Hicks" title="Carola Hicks">Carola Hicks</a>, an art historian, put her forward as a candidate for the author of the <a href="/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry" title="Bayeux Tapestry">Bayeux Tapestry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edith_of_Wessex&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Wessex_family_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Wessex family tree">House of Wessex family tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Cnut_the_Great_family_tree" title="Template:Cnut the Great family tree">Cnut the Great's family tree</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edith_of_Wessex&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pauline Stafford, 'Edith, Edward's Wife and Queen', in Richard Mortimer ed., <i>Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend</i>, The Boydell Press, 2009, pp. 119, 129–130. Stafford states (p. 124) that Edith was between 12 and 25 when she married, and probably nearer 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Historians disagree whether this was partly written in 1065–66, before Edward's death, or was a unitary work of the late 1060s. 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Aird, <i>Tostig</i>, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stafford, 2009, p. 135</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stafford, 2009, p. 125</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stafford278-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Stafford278_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stafford278_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stafford278_18-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Stafford, <i>Queen Emma and Queen Edith</i>, pp. 278–9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2006_21_mon.shtml">BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour, 22 May 2006</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Carola_Hicks" title="Carola Hicks">Carola Hicks</a>, <i>The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life of a Masterpiece</i> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7011-7463-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-7011-7463-3">0-7011-7463-3</a>)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edith_of_Wessex&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Barlow_(historian)" title="Frank Barlow (historian)">Barlow, Frank</a> (1997) <i>Edward the Confessor</i>, Yale University Press: London</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Stafford" title="Pauline Stafford">Stafford, Pauline</a> (1997). <i>Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England</i>, Blackwell <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-16679-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-631-16679-3">0-631-16679-3</a></li> <li>Stafford, Pauline (2009). 'Edith, Edward's Wife and Queen', pp. 129–138 in Richard Mortimer ed., <i>Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend</i>, The Boydell Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84383-436-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84383-436-6">978-1-84383-436-6</a></li> <li>Tyler, Elizabeth M. (2017). <i>England in Europe: English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000–c.1150.</i> University of Toronto Press</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams2004" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ann_Williams_(historian)" title="Ann Williams (historian)">Williams, Ann</a> (2004). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8483">"Edith (<i>d</i>. 1075)"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). 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href="/wiki/Sigrid_the_Haughty" title="Sigrid the Haughty">Sigrid the Haughty</a>/<a href="/wiki/%C5%9Awi%C4%99tos%C5%82awa" title="Świętosława">Świętosława</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ealdgyth_(wife_of_Edmund_Ironside)" title="Ealdgyth (wife of Edmund Ironside)">Ealdgyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_of_Normandy" title="Emma of Normandy">Emma of Normandy</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Edith of Wessex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_of_Mercia" title="Edith of Mercia">Edith of Mercia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matilda_of_Flanders" title="Matilda of Flanders">Matilda of Flanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matilda_of_Scotland" title="Matilda of Scotland">Matilda of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adeliza_of_Louvain" title="Adeliza of Louvain">Adeliza of Louvain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matilda_I,_Countess_of_Boulogne" title="Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne">Matilda of Boulogne</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Plantagenet,_Count_of_Anjou" title="Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou">Geoffrey Plantagenet</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine" title="Eleanor of Aquitaine">Eleanor of Aquitaine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_France,_Queen_of_England_and_Hungary" title="Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary">Margaret of France</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berengaria_of_Navarre" title="Berengaria of Navarre">Berengaria of Navarre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_Angoul%C3%AAme" title="Isabella of Angoulême">Isabella of Angoulême</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blanche_of_Castile" title="Blanche of Castile">Blanche of Castile</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_of_Provence" title="Eleanor of Provence">Eleanor of Provence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_of_Castile" title="Eleanor of Castile">Eleanor of Castile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_France,_Queen_of_England" title="Margaret of France, Queen of England">Margaret of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_France" title="Isabella of France">Isabella of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippa_of_Hainault" title="Philippa of Hainault">Philippa of Hainault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_of_Bohemia" title="Anne of Bohemia">Anne of Bohemia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_Valois" title="Isabella of Valois">Isabella of Valois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_of_Navarre,_Queen_of_England" title="Joan of Navarre, Queen of England">Joan of Navarre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Valois" title="Catherine of Valois">Catherine of Valois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou" title="Margaret of Anjou">Margaret of Anjou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Woodville" title="Elizabeth Woodville">Elizabeth Woodville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Neville" title="Anne Neville">Anne Neville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_of_York" title="Elizabeth of York">Elizabeth of York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" title="Catherine of Aragon">Catherine of Aragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" title="Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Seymour" title="Jane Seymour">Jane Seymour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_of_Cleves" title="Anne of Cleves">Anne of Cleves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Howard" title="Catherine Howard">Catherine Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Parr" title="Catherine Parr">Catherine Parr</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lord_Guildford_Dudley" title="Lord Guildford Dudley">Guildford Dudley</a></i></li></ul> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;padding: 0 0.5em; text-align:center;width:50%;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gruoch" title="Gruoch">Gruoch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingibiorg_Finnsdottir" title="Ingibiorg Finnsdottir">Ingibiorg Finnsdottir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland" title="Saint Margaret of Scotland">Margaret of Wessex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethelreda_(daughter_of_Gospatric)" title="Ethelreda (daughter of Gospatric)">Ethelreda of Northumbria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sybilla_of_Normandy" title="Sybilla of Normandy">Sybilla of Normandy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maud,_Countess_of_Huntingdon" title="Maud, Countess of Huntingdon">Maud of Northumbria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ermengarde_de_Beaumont" title="Ermengarde de Beaumont">Ermengarde de Beaumont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_of_England,_Queen_of_Scotland" title="Joan of England, Queen of Scotland">Joan of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_de_Coucy" title="Marie de Coucy">Marie de Coucy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_England" title="Margaret of England">Margaret of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yolande_of_Dreux,_Queen_of_Scotland" title="Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland">Yolande de Dreux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_de_Burgh" title="Elizabeth de Burgh">Elizabeth de Burgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_of_the_Tower" title="Joan of the Tower">Joan of the Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Drummond,_Queen_of_Scotland" title="Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland">Margaret Drummond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euphemia_de_Ross" title="Euphemia de Ross">Euphemia de Ross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anabella_Drummond" title="Anabella Drummond">Anabella Drummond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Beaufort,_Queen_of_Scots" title="Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots">Joan Beaufort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_of_Guelders" title="Mary of Guelders">Mary of Guelders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_of_Denmark,_Queen_of_Scotland" title="Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland">Margaret of Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Tudor" title="Margaret Tudor">Margaret Tudor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madeleine_of_Valois" title="Madeleine of Valois">Madeleine of Valois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_of_Guise" title="Mary of Guise">Mary of Guise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_II_of_France" title="Francis II of France">Francis II of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Stuart,_Lord_Darnley" title="Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley">Henry Stuart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hepburn,_4th_Earl_of_Bothwell" title="James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell">James Hepburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark" title="Anne of Denmark">Anne of Denmark</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div id="*_Royal_consorts_in_England_and_Scotland_after_the_Union_of_the_Crowns_from_1603"> <ul><li><b>Royal consorts in England and Scotland after the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_the_Crowns" title="Union of the Crowns">Union of the Crowns</a> from 1603</b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark" title="Anne of Denmark">Anne of Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henrietta_Maria_of_France" title="Henrietta Maria of France">Henrietta Maria of France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Braganza" title="Catherine of Braganza">Catherine of Braganza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_of_Modena" title="Mary of Modena">Mary of Modena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_George_of_Denmark" title="Prince George of Denmark">George of Denmark and Norway</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div id="*_British_royal_consorts_after_the_Acts_of_Union_1707"> <ul><li><b>British royal consorts after the <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707" title="Acts of Union 1707">Acts of Union 1707</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prince_George_of_Denmark" title="Prince George of Denmark">George of Denmark and Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caroline_of_Ansbach" title="Caroline of Ansbach">Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" title="Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz">Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caroline_of_Brunswick" title="Caroline of Brunswick">Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_of_Saxe-Meiningen" title="Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen">Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Albert_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha" title="Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha">Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha</a></li> <li><a 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