Gytha of Wessex

Gytha of Wessex
Died	1098 or 1107
Spouse	Vladimir II Monomakh
House	House of Godwin (by birth) Rurik Dynasty (by marriage)
Father	Harold Godwinson
Mother	Edith Swannesha

Gytha of Wessex (died 1098 or 1107; Old English: Gȳð) was one of several daughters of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, by his consort, Edyth Swannesha. In Domesday her sole possession was the manor of Werrington, a very large settlement on the Cornish / Devon border.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, Gytha and two of her brothers escaped to the court of their uncle, King Sweyn Estridsson of Denmark. The two brothers were treated by Sweyn with hospitality, while their sister was married to Waldemar, King of Ruthenia, i.e. Vladimir II Monomakh, one of the most famous rulers of Kievan Rus.

Gytha was the mother of Mstislav the Great, the last ruler of united Kievan Rus. In the Norse sagas, Mstislav is called Harald, after his grandfather. The patericon of St. Pantaleon Cloister in Cologne says that "Gytha the Queen" died as a nun on 10 March. A year later Vladimir Monomakh married another woman.

Their children were:

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