Godwin exiled from England
September 8, 1051
After refusing to punish the town of Dover for a brawl with Norman courtiers, the powerful Earl of Wessex and his sons were forced into exile by Edward the Confessor. Some chroniclers believed Edward then promised the English throne to William of Normandy. The crucial offer, if made, was never corroborated.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.