Frases de Godwin de Wessex

Godwin de Wessex fue uno de los señores más poderosos de Inglaterra durante el reinado de Canuto el Grande y sus sucesores, habiendo sido nombrado por el rey conde de Wessex. Wikipedia

✵ – 15. abril 1053

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Godwin de Wessex: Frases en inglés

“Sir king, I have been often accused of harbouring traitorous designs against you, but, as God in heaven is just and true, may this morsel of bread choke me if even in thought I have ever been false to you.”

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Godwin, Earl of Wessex

The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (trans. Thomas Forester), Book VI
Godwin supposedly said this just before he choked to death on a piece of bread at the table of King Edward "the Confessor", but the story is very doubtful.
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