Select your genre:
My Awards:
My Badges:
|
1025:
Born the Son of Earl Godwin of Wessex, and brother of Harold and Gyrth.
Like his father, Tostig supported the King, Edward the Confessor.
The Godwins were sent into exile when they voiced complaints against Edwards’ Norman advisers.
1051:
Tostig married Judith, daughter of Baldwin IV, the count of Flanders.
1052:
Earl Godwin and his sons sailed to south England.
With the army and navy supporting Godwin, the King was forced to reinstate his family.
1055:
After the death of Earl Siward, Tostig was made the Earl of Northumbria by Edward the Confessor.
The hostility in Northumbria at the time warranted his men to travel in groups of twenty in order to protect them selves from attackers.
Tostig created new laws and captured the robbers, punishing them with mutilation and death.
He successfully brought Northumbria under his firm control.
1061:
Tostig and his wife, Judith pilgrimage to Rome and received by Pope Nicholas II.
During the return trip they were attacked and all possessions were taken.
He returned to Rome to complain about the incident and the state of the country and was compensated by the Pope.
He then returned to England.
1063:
Edward ordered Tostig and Harold to invade Wales.
Tostig was successful.
1064:
Tostig turns tyrant in his rule.
His thirst for power and wealth made him unduly severe to his followers and subjects.
In a meeting with two thegns, Gamel and Ulf, who complained about his heavy taxes, he ordered their arrest and execution.
Later that year he arranged the murder of a noble name Gospatric.
October 1065:
200 thegns met in York and chose Morcar, the brother of Edwin, Earl of Mercia, to become their new leader.
They plundered Tostig’s treasury, killing more than 200 of his followers and headed south.
Edward the Confessor sent Harold to put down the rebellion, but Harold was convinced it would result in civil war.
On the 28th of October, 1065, Edward gave in to their demands and banished Tostig from the country and Morcar, Harold’s brother-in-law, became the Earl of Northumbria.
1066:
Tostig and his family fled to Flanders when Harold became King,
Tostig went to William the Conqueror and offered his aid against his brother.
May, 1066:
Tostig landed on the Isle of Wight and forced the inhabitants to pay him.
He then sailed north with sixty ships and entered the Humber before being driven away by Morcar.
Current:
Tostig Godwin traveled to Denmark to ask his cousin, King Sweyn, to help him against Harold. He was refused.
Now Tostig, desperate and mad, has found himself in Norway.
He seeks the audience of King Hardrada in hopes to join the war against his brother, King Harold, of England.
|
NOTE:
For the purposes of the Novel 1066 Conquest here at PAN, the date Tostig lost his Earldoom to Morcar is in the year 1057.
|
My Novels:
Pan Historia Junction
1066: The Year of the Conquest
My Reference Books:
My Blog:
My Salons:
My Friends:
Ariana of Cragmere
Sinha Embrace
My Favorite Reads:
My Pandas:
|
