Gode

Also known as Goda and Godgifu.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1047.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Tanner (ODBN).

Relationships

Father: Æthelred II, king of England.

This relationship is given by Tanner (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 1101).

Mother: Emma, daughter of Richard I of Normandy.

This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Keats-Rohan (p. 1101). Gode is said by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (D s.a. 1052) to be the sister of Edward the Confessor.

Spouse: Dreux, count of Mantes.

This relationship is given by Tanner (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 1101).

Spouse: Eustace II, count of Boulogne.

This relationship is given by Tanner (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 1101).

Children (by Dreux):

Ralph (died 21 December 1057), earl of Hereford.

Walter (died 1063), count of Amiens and the Vexin.

Fulk, bishop of Amiens.

(possible) Children (by Eustace):

Geoffrey married Beatrice de Mandeville.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Æthelred II "the Unready"” in The Henry Project. [accessed 5 October 2014]

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Murray, Alan V. The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History. (Prosopographica et Genealogica: 2000).

Tanner, Heather J. “Eustace (II), count of Boulogne (d.c. 1087) in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press: 2004).

Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).