What is the origin of the surname Gooden?

Answer 1

The proud and noble English surname Gooden heartily wields the formidable family motto "By Fidelity And Valour" through the obscurant mists of time from it's earliest origins with the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes who once mightily ruled all of Britain. Deriving from the baptismal, or given, name "son of Godwin", it is first found in Yorkshire, where they'd held family seat from the earliest of times.

The earl of Wessex, Godwin, was a chief advisor to King Canute.

His son, Harold Godwinson, was "the" Harold II of England, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England -- incidentally killed October 14, 1066 - at The Battle of Hastings.