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Æthelgifu (Old English pronunciation: [ˈæðeljivu], fl. 870s to 890s) was a daughter of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. She was the third surviving child of the marriage between Alfred and Ealhswith in 868.
20 de dic. de 2021 · Æthelgifu’s supposed saints day, her virtue and crucially her ‘Englishness’ were contrasted with a negative criticism of the British government, and used to deflect it. This deflection was ultimately a misuse of a historical figure.
Daughter of King Alfred the Great / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Æthelgifu ( Old English pronunciation: [ ˈæðeljivu], fl. 870s to 890s) was a daughter of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. She was the third surviving child of the marriage between Alfred and Ealhswith in 868.
26 de abr. de 2022 · Æthelgifu was the daughter of King Alfred the Great, an Anglo-Saxon king of the 9th century. She was the third of Alfred and his wife Ealhswith's five children and the second eldest daughter. She was likely born sometime in the 870s.
29 de nov. de 2021 · The noblewoman Æthelgifu and her daughter, Queen Ælfgifu, are two of many examples of influential women who ended up on the wrong side of history. Dunstan’s hagiographer reduced these two powerful women to sexual objects that exist purely to reflect the morality of the men around them.
15 de may. de 2023 · Little is known about Æthelgifu, the third daughter of Alfred the Great, except that she became the first abbess of a new house founded at Shaftesbury in around 893, which was destined to...
Æthelgifu, pronounced [ˈæðeljivu] in Old English, was active during the 870s to 890s and is recognized as a daughter of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. Born as the third surviving child from the union of Alfred and Ealhswith in 868, she entered monastic life.
