Edith of Wessex
(1025-1075)
11th-century Queen of England
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Edith of Wessex (c. 1029 – 18 December 1075) married King Edward the Confessor of England in 1045. The marriage produced no children. Later ecclesiastical writers claimed that this was either because Edward took a vow of celibacy, or because he refused to consummate the marriage because of his antipathy to Edith's family, the Godwins. However, in the view of Edward's biographer, Frank Barlow, "The theory that Edward's childlessness was due to deliberate abstention from sexual relations lacks authority, plausibility and diagnostic value."
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Edith of Wessex 1025
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18 December 1075 (aged 50)
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