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15 de may. de 2023 · Æthelgifu: First Saxon Abbess Deborah M Jones Independently published, £7.99, 188 pages Recent years have seen the royal women of Anglo-Saxon England surge to prominence in a series of ...
29 de nov. de 2021 · Æthelgifu and Ælfgifu: A Mother and Daughter Embroiled in a Medieval Sex Scandal. The Life of Saint Dunstan, written in around 1000, describes a scandalous incident that took place at the coronation of King Eadwig in 956. According to the anonymous author of this saint’s life, the teenage Eadwig suddenly rushed out of his coronation ...
21 de mar. de 2022 · Ælfthryth (Aelfthryth) "Countess of Flanders, Elfrida, Elftrudis" Flandre formerly Wessex. Born about 0877 in England. Ancestors. Daughter of Ælfred (Wessex) of Wessex and Ealhswith (Mercia) of Wessex. Sister of Æthelflæd (Wessex) of Mercia, Eadweard (Wessex) of England, Eadmund (Wessex) of Wessex, Æthelgifu (Wessex) of Shaftesbury and ...
2 de sept. de 2023 · Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders. Countess consort of Flanders (877-929) Elftrudis (Elftrude, Elfrida) Elfthrith. Aethelfryth. Ethel-fryth. Aelfthryth. Abbess Elfthrith of Repton.
4 de jul. de 2014 · Added: Jul 4, 2014. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 132292736. Source citation. English Royalty. Ælfthryth, Princess of Wessex was born in 875. She was the daughter of Ælfræd, King of Wessex and Eahlwið, Princess of Mercia. She married Baldwinus II 'de Kale' Graaf van Vlaanderen, son of Baldwin I 'de Ijzeren' Graaf van Vlaanderen and Judith ...
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. A Welsh monk named Asser who wrote a biography of Alfred the Great, described her as 'devoted to God through ...
Æthelgifu Abbess of Shaftesbury, Aethelgeofu, Ethelgiva of Shaftesbury (born Wessex) was born circa 875, in birth place, to Ælfrēd of Wessex (Wessex) and Queen Ealhswith Alswitha, Aethelswida, Elswitha, Æhlswith, Elhswyth, Ealhswith,Ethelswitha, Lady of the Mercians, Queen of England of England (born Mercia of the Gaini, of Wessex).
