The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Wulnoth

Role: South-Saxon knight · First appears: A.D. 1006–1010

Life events

  • 1009 · Brihtric betrayed Wulnoth to the king, and Wulnoth went into exile.(A.D. 1006–1010)
    • With: Brihtric
    • “Brihtric, brother of Alderman Edric, bewrayed Wulnoth, the South-Saxon knight, father of Earl Godwin, to the king; and he went into exile”
  • 1009 · Wulnoth enticed the navy and led twenty ships in plundering along the south coast.(A.D. 1006–1010)
    • “he went into exile, and enticed the navy, till he had with him twenty ships; with which he plundered everywhere by the south coast, and wrought every kind of mischief.”
  • 1009 · Wulnoth burned the ships Brihtric had taken against him.(A.D. 1006–1010)
    • With: Brihtric
    • “whereupon Wulnoth soon came, and burned them.”

A.D. 1006–1010

  • child: Earl Godwin “It was at this same time, or a little earlier, that Brihtric, brother of Alderman Edric, bewrayed Wulnoth, the South-Saxon knight, father of Earl Godwin, to the king;”
  • enemies with Brihtric “But, whilst they were proceeding thitherward, there came such a wind against them, as no man remembered before; which beat and tossed the ships, and drove them aground; whereupon Wulnoth soon came, and burned them.”

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