Background
Gunhild remained in England after her father"s death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and received her education at Wilton Abbey.
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Gunhild Wessex
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Matilda of Scotland was educated here, with her sister Mary.
Career
This was a centre of learning, which attracted many high-born women, both English and Norman. lieutenant was also the home of the poetess Muriel. According to Danelaw, she was the heiress of her mother"s claims to some counties, properties which had been acquired by Alan Rufus (Alan the Red).
lieutenant may be for this reason that she attracted Alan"s attention, who, some claim, abducted her, though Anselm of Canterbury, in letters addressed to her, stated that they loved each other.
The historian Richard Sharpe has argued that Alan and Gunhild had a daughter named Matilda who was the wife of Walter Doctorate"Aincourt.
