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If I could go back to any time it would be the great meeting between Edward the Confessor and his greatest Earl, Godwine,in 1051/52 when England stood on the brink of another terrible civil war and those two great statesman stood off against each other. With the charge of treason floating acreoss the air Godwine sought safe passage to the meeting and was refused. Both parties had armies ready. What an atmosphere that must have been! All the courtly intrigue that had led to the stand off.....Edward locked in to a childless marriage with Godwine's daughter......Godwine charged with treason for his refusal to lay waste to Dover on Edwards orders......Must have been an electric atmosphere at the meeting....Godwine eventually fled with his family and was pronounced Exile ......Two years later he was back and ws once again Father in Law to the King and Englands most powerful Earl.
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