Ælfthryth 3, PASE. "Anglo-Saxons.net: S 156". Sean Miller. Retrieved 2 February 2008. Pauline Stafford, "Political Womena", in Brown & Farr, Mercia,...
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The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century...
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Queen Ælfthryth can refer to: Ælfthryth, wife of King Coenwulf of Mercia (fl. 810s) Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar), king of England, mother of Ethelred the...
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a daughter of King Offa of Mercia and his consort, Cynethryth. Ælfthryth was "either betrothed to or loved by" Æthelberht II, the king of the East Angles...
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Coenulfus) was the King of Mercia from December 796 until his death in 821. He was a descendant of King Pybba, who ruled Mercia in the early 7th century...
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Edward the Elder (redirect from Edward I the Elder of England)
Battle of Edington in 878. After the battle, the Vikings still ruled Northumbria, East Anglia and eastern Mercia, leaving only Wessex and western Mercia under...
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year of Æthelwald's death, let alone its manner. No children of Æthelwald and Ælfthryth are known. Edgar had two children before he married Ælfthryth, both...
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Cœnred fl. 675–709) was king of Mercia from 704 to 709. Mercia was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the English Midlands. He was a son of the Mercian king Wulfhere...
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died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. In 825, his father, King Ecgberht, defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia, ending a long Mercian dominance...
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the Elder and his sister, Princess Æthelflæd of Mercia, raid Danish East Anglia and bring back the relics of St. Oswald in triumph. Æthelflæd translates...
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very few of the coins he issued have been discovered. It is known from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that he was killed on the orders of Offa of Mercia in 794...
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was Ealdorman of Mercia. His family, along with those of Æthelstan Half-King and Æthelstan Rota, rose to greatness in the middle third of the 10th century...
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(Cyneðryð; died after AD 798) was a Queen of Mercia, wife of King Offa of Mercia and mother of King Ecgfrith of Mercia. Cynethryth is the only Anglo-Saxon queen...
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Æthelred the Unready (redirect from Aethelred II of England)
was the son of King Edgar the Peaceful and Queen Ælfthryth. He came to the throne at about the age of 12, following the assassination of his older half-brother...
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should not be taken as evidence of high personal morals". Edgar's third consort was Ælfthryth, who was the widow of Ealdorman Æthelwold. He died in 962...
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respectively. Some of these sons seem to have spent part of their childhood in fosterage elsewhere, possibly with Æthelred's mother Ælfthryth. Edmund Ironside...
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Alfred the Great (redirect from Alfred of England)
Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury; Ælfthryth, who married Baldwin, count of Flanders; and Æthelweard. Alfred's grandfather, Ecgberht, became king of Wessex in...
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Edward the Martyr (category Year of birth uncertain)
of Canterbury, and Æthelwine, Ealdorman of East Anglia, while Æthelred was backed by his mother, Queen Ælfthryth and her friend Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester...
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descendant of Alfred the Great through his daughter Ælfthryth. Additionally, kings since Henry II have been descended from English kings from the House of Wessex...
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Abbess of Ely Ælfthryth of Crowland (died c. 835), also known as Etheldritha, Anglo-Saxon saint, daughter of King Offa of Mercia Ethelreda (daughter of Gospatric)...
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first king of England, his grandmother Ælfthryth had the use of an estate at Æthelingadene (East and West Dean near Chichester). Ælfthryth may have brought...
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Æthelstan (redirect from Athelstan I of England)
Danes attacked Mercia, but suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Tettenhall. Æthelred died in 911 and was succeeded as ruler of Mercia by his widow...
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one other child: Wulfric's will contains bequests to the daughter of a sister, Ælfthryth, who had apparently died before the will was written in 1002. Her...
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Edith of Wessex (Old English: Ealdgyth; c. 1025 – 18 December 1075) was Queen of England through her marriage to Edward the Confessor from 1045 until Edward's...
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of Coldingham, daughter of Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia Ælfflæd of Whitby, daughter of Oswiu, king of Northumbria Ælfthryth of Crowland, daughter of Offa...
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pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700) Ælfthryth of Crowland, Anglo-Saxon princess Bran Ardchenn, king of Leinster (Ireland) Malik ibn Anas, founder of the...
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pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700) Ælfthryth of Crowland, Anglo-Saxon princess Bran Ardchenn, king of Leinster (Ireland) Malik ibn Anas, founder of the...
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woman named Ealdgyth. This Ealdgyth was the daughter of Ælfthryth, and niece of Ælfhelm, Ealdorman of York and Wulfric Spot. While Ealdgyth is a common female...
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one was Eadburh. It is most likely that Eadburh of Bicester was the daughter of King Penda of Mercia, who was pagan but had several children who were...
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