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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, devoted to God through her holy virginity, subject and consecrated to the rules of monastic life, entered the service of God. 2. Alfred’s will, which survives, leaves two estates to his ‘middle daughter’, who we can assume is Æthelgifu even though she is not named.
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury (died 944) was the first wife of King Edmund I (r. 939–946). She was Queen of the English from her marriage in around 939 until her death in 944. Ælfgifu and Edmund were the parents of two future English kings, Eadwig (r. 955–959) and Edgar (r. 959–975). [1]
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. Alfred's biographer, Asser, wrote that "Æthelgifu ...
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.
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.
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 remain...
