Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is Episode 375. Life and death politics.

But mostly death.

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For the first time in a long time, Wales was experiencing a time of internal peace.

Thanks in large part to its unification under King Griffith.

Griffith was also newly married to a woman named Eldgith who was the daughter of the newly restored Earl Elfgar of East Anglia.

And Eldgith was a woman who, according to William of Jumiage, was a perfect ten, or actually probably an eleven.

Eldgith was Eldgodam, and pretty soon the royal couple would have a daughter named Nest, as well as as many as three sons.

So lately everything was coming up Griffith, but not so much for the godwins.

Elfrich was one of the godwins main adversaries, and now King Griffith, the king of all of Wales, was married to his daughter.

Probably not what the godwins have been hoping for, considering that Griffith had a pretty good relationship with Swain Godwinson,

but that relationship apparently didn't transfer to Swain's siblings.

And so here, on the cusp of a multinational alliance, the godwins not only found themselves on the outside looking in,

there's a good chance that there are going to be its rivals.

Not great.

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