GYTHA (-St Omer after 1069). Adam of Bremen records that "Wolf sororem" married "duci Gudvino", and was mother of "ducis Suein, Tostin et Haroldum [genuit parricidas]"[295], although this last reference is unexplained. She is named by Florence of Worcester[296]. Her origin is deduced from Ulf Jarl of Denmark being described as the uncle of her son Svein by Florence of Worcester[297]. Morkinskinna names "Gytha, the daughter of Thorgils sprakaleggr and the sister of Jarl Úlfr" as the wife of "Godwin"[298]. She was living in Exeter when King William I attacked it in 1068. Florence of Worcester records that "Gytha…comitissa…mater Haroldi regis Anglorum ac soror Suani regis Danorum" fled to Flanders, in a passage dealing with events in early 1068[299]. She became a nun at Saint-Omer. According to Orderic Vitaliis, she "secretly gathered together a great store of treasure and … fled to France never to return"[300]. m (1019) GODWIN Earl of Wessex, son of WULFNOTH "Cild" & his wife --- ([993]-Winchester 15 Apr 1053, bur Winchester Old Minster)