Gytha of Wessex (in Anglo-Saxon: Gȳð) (n. 1057-m Palestine, 10 March 1098 or Wessex, 7 May 1107) was one of the many daughters of Edith Swanneck with Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, two of Harold's sons and a daughter escaped to the court of their uncle, King Svend Estridsson of Denmark. They were treated by Svend with hospitality, while his sister married Waldemar, king of Ruthenia, she did so with Vladimir II Monómaco, one of the most famous rulers of Rus of Kiev.

Gytha was the mother of Mstislav the Great, the last ruler of the unified Rus. In the Nordic sagas, Mstislav is called Harald as his grandfather. Gytha de Wessex was secluded around 1096, in a convent where he died as a nun on 7 May 1107. Some authors assume that he followed Godfrey of Bouillon on the First Crusade and died in Palestine, possibly in 1098, a year after that Vladimir Monómaco would marry another woman. Children

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