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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 - Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt
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Antioch, where she was honourably buried, as we haue declared before.

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Chronicon Hierosolymitanum in lib. 3. cap. 27. maketh also mention of this
English Lady which he calleth Godwera in this maner.

Hac in regione Maresch vxor Baldewini nobilissima, quam de regno Angliae
eduxit, diutina corporis molestia aggrauata, et duci Godefrido commendata,
vitam exhalauit, sepulta Catholicis obsequijs; cuius nomen erat Godwera.

The same in English.

In this prouince of Maresch the most noble wife of Baldwine, which he
caried with him out of England being visited with dayly sicknesses and
infirmities of body, and commended to the custody of duke Godfrey, departed
out of this life, and was buried after the Christian maner. Her name was
Godwera.

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The voyage of Edgar the sonne of Edward which was the sonne of Edmund
surnamed Ironside, brother vnto K. Edward the confessor, (being
accompanied with valiant Robert the sonne of Godwin) vnto Ierusalem, in
the yeere of our Lord 1102. Recorded by William of Malmesburie, lib. 3.
histo. fol. 58.

[Sidenote: A.D. 1102.] Subsequenti tempore cum Roberto filio Godwini milite
audacissimo Edgaras Hierosolymam pertendit Illud fuit tempus quo Turci
Baldwinum regem apud Ramas obsederunt: qui cum obsidionis iniuriam ferre
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