Godgifu (Goda) of England

✓ Godgifu (Goda), daughter of AEthelred II 'the Unready', King of England, by Emma of Normandy; sister of Edward the Confessor ('earl Rodulph the son of king Eadward's sister Goda' - Simeon of Durham; Orderic Vitalis records her son's parentage); taken to Normandy in 1016; m. 1stly Dreux, Comte de Mantes (d. 1035), 2ndly Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (note-only); d. c.1049 (standard accounts). Mother of Ralph, Earl of Hereford. RING 27 Oct 2026 to AEthelred II (I99936), already in the tree through Edmund Ironside; her mother Emma of Normandy enters the tree as a direct ancestress for the first time. Source: Medieval Lands (Charles Cawley, fmg.ac), read in the browser 27 Oct 2026, 'Untitled English Nobility D-K' - EWIAS, and 'England Earls 1067-1122' - HEREFORD (Mantes), citing the Gloucester St Peter cartulary, Gesta Stephani, Red Book of the Exchequer, Domesday, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Florence of Worcester, Orderic Vitalis and Simeon of Durham. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 27 Oct 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]