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Earl of Wessex, the Glossary

Earl of Wessex is a title that has been created twice in British history – once in the pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon nobility of England, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.^[1]

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Earldoms in England before 1066
Earls of Wessex
Noble titles created in 1999

Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Bagshot Park

Bagshot Park is a royal residence located near Bagshot, a village south of Windsor.

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The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Charles III

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.

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Cnut

Cnut (Knútr; c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035.

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Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer.

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Courtesy title

A courtesy title is a title that does not have legal significance but is rather used by custom or courtesy, particularly, in the context of nobility, the titles used by children of members of the nobility (cf. substantive title).

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Duke of Cambridge

Duke of Cambridge is a hereditary title of nobility in the British royal family, one of several royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom.

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Duke of Edinburgh

Duke of Edinburgh, named after the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, is a substantive title that has been created four times since 1726 for members of the British royal family. Earl of Wessex and Duke of Edinburgh are monarchy of the United Kingdom.

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Duke of Sussex

Duke of Sussex is a substantive title, one of several royal dukedoms in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Earl of East Anglia

The Earls of East Anglia were governors of East Anglia during the 11th century. Earl of Wessex and Earl of East Anglia are Earldoms in England before 1066.

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Earl of Forfar

Earl of Forfar is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Scotland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Earl of Wessex and Earl of Forfar are Earldoms in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Earl of Kent

The peerage title Earl of Kent has been created eight times in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Earl of Wessex and Earl of Kent are Earldoms in England before 1066.

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Edith of Mercia

Ealdgyth (fl. c. 1057–1066), also Aldgyth or Edith in modern English, was a daughter of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, the wife of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (d. 1063), ruler of all Wales, and later the wife and queen consort of Harold Godwinson, king of England in 1066.

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Edith the Fair

Edith the Fair (Ealdgȳð Swann hnesce, "Edyth the Gentle Swan"; born c. 1025, died c. 1086), also known as Edith Swanneck,Her first name is also spelled Ealdgyth, Aldgyth, Edeva or Eddeva, and sometimes appears as Ēadgȳð and Ēadgifu.

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Godwin, Earl of Wessex

Godwin of Wessex (Godwine; – 15 April 1053) was an English nobleman who became one of the most powerful earls in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great (King of England from 1016 to 1035) and his successors. Earl of Wessex and Godwin, Earl of Wessex are earls of Wessex.

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Gytha Thorkelsdóttir

Gytha Thorkelsdóttir (997 – c. 1069), also called Githa, was a Danish noblewoman.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Harold Godwinson

Harold Godwinson (– 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king. Earl of Wessex and Harold Godwinson are earls of Wessex.

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Hastings

Hastings is a seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of Lewes and south east of London.

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Heirs of the body

In English law, heirs of the body is the principle that certain types of property pass to a descendant of the original holder, recipient or grantee according to a fixed order of kinship.

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Heptarchy

The Heptarchy were the seven petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England that flourished from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century until they were consolidated in the 8th century into the four kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex.

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History of the British Isles

The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago.

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House of Godwin

The House of Godwin (Old English: Godƿin) was an Anglo-Saxon family who were one of the leading noble families in England during the last fifty years before the Norman Conquest.

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House of Windsor

The House of Windsor is a British royal house, and currently the reigning house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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James, Earl of Wessex

James Alexander Philip Theo Mountbatten-Windsor, Earl of Wessex (born 17 December 2007), styled Viscount Severn from 2007 until 2023, is the younger child and son of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.

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Kingdom of Sussex

The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex (from Suth-sæxe, in turn from Suth-Seaxe or Sūþseaxna rīce, meaning "(land or people of/Kingdom of) the South Saxons"), was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Male heir

A male heir (sometimes heirs male)—usually describing the first-born son (primogeniture) or oldest surviving son of a family—has traditionally been the recipient of the residue of the estate, titles, wealth and responsibilities of his father in a patrilineal system.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Wessex

Also known as Countess of Wessex, Earl and Countess of Wessex, Earldom of Wessex, Earls of Wessex, HRH The Earl of Wessex, His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex, The Earl of Wessex.

Earl of Wessex, the Glossary

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Earldoms in England before 1066

Earls of Wessex

Noble titles created in 1999

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