Godwin
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Powerful Anglo-Saxon earl under Edward the Confessor.
If these viceroys were a source of strength to the powerful Canute, they proved a source of weakness to the saintly Confessor, who was forced to submit to the control of his provincial rulers, such as Godwin and Leofric, as each in turn gained the upper–hand in the field or among the Witan.
Law in a Free State
Writer invoked for having denounced loveless, obligatory cohabitation within marriage as a form of unchastity.
which, in case of disappointment, enjoins on the parties what Godwin denounced as a life of unchastity-the procreation of children in the absence of love;