What happened to Gytha?
Gytha died in 1107; it was through her and her son Mstislav that the Godwinson blood eventually made it back into the English royal family, with Mstislav’s direct descendant Philippa of Hainault, wife and queen of Edward III. Who was Gytha? Gytha of Wessex (born c. 1053/1061 – died 1098 or 1107; Old English: Gȳð)…