Godwin de Wessex citations

Godwin de Wessex, également Godwine, Goodwin, Godwyn ou Goodwyn est un noble anglo-saxon. Il devient le deuxième personnage le plus puissant du royaume d'Angleterre après le roi sous le règne d'Édouard le Confesseur. Wikipedia

✵ – 15. avril 1053

Godwin de Wessex: Citations en anglais

“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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