Godwin family

• Political power


  Godwin's daughter = married to King Edward

  Family connection to the king
• Economic power


  owns a lot of land = very rich (almost as rich as the king)

  Wessex = south of England = rich farmland = money
• Military power


  good at fighting

  lead and control massive armies because they control lots of Thiegns (well equipped fighters) and their peasant armies
• Family tree


  Godwin

  Harold Godwinson - earl of Wessex - marries Morcar's sister (Morcar = earl of northumbria

  Tostig Godwinson - was the earl of Northumbria but got exiled

  daughter = King Edwards wife