Godbold

Family: Orkneys · Role: king of the Orkneys · First appears: Book XII 7–11

Life events

• Cadwalla defeated Edwin's forces, killing Edwin, Osfrid, and Godbold.(Book XII 7–11 · 📍 Heathfield)
  • With: Cadwalla Edwin Osfrid
  • “but was killed, and almost all the people with him, together with Osfrid, his son, and Godbold, king of the Orkneys, who had come to their assistance.”

Book XII 7–11

• enemies with Cadwalla (Godbold assisted Edwin in the battle against Cadwalla's Britons.) “When Edwin was informed of it, he assembled all the petty kings of the Angles, and meeting the Britons in a field called Heathfield, presently gave them battle, but was killed, and almost all the people with him, together with Osfrid, his son, and Godbold, king of the Orkneys, who had come to their assistance.”

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Extracted from the original text of The History of the Kings of Britain. Made with Rho MD.