alone its manner. No children of Æthelwald and Ælfthryth are known. Edgar had two children before he married Ælfthryth, both of uncertain legitimacy. Edward...

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...

king's wife, whereas she also had the status of being the queen. Unlike Edgar's earlier consorts, Ælfthryth became politically influential, and Edgar appointed...

Ælfflæd of Whitby, daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Eanflæd, abbess of Whitby Abbey (654–714) Saint Ælfthryth of Crowland (died c. 795) Ælfthryth, wife...

Anglo-Saxon nobility treated it as a residence, such as Queen Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar, and there are postholes belonging to a Saxon hall on the site...

Abbey), (2) Bishop Æthelwold (in person), (3) members of the royal family (Edgar, Queen Ælfthryth and Edward the Martyr), and (4) her closest relatives...

of Canterbury, and Æthelwine, Ealdorman of East Anglia, while Æthelred was backed by his mother, Queen Ælfthryth and her friend Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester...

the verge of manhood" in 975. The younger son was Æthelred, whose mother, Ælfthryth, Edgar had married in 964. Ælfthryth was the daughter of Ordgar, ealdorman...

daughter Ælfthryth was King Edgar's third wife and was the mother of King Æthelred the Unready (c.968 – 1016). He was created an ealdorman by King Edgar in...

Edward was born about 962. Since Edgar began relationships with Wulfthryth and Ælfthryth so soon afterwards, marrying Ælfthryth in 964, Cyril Hart speculates...

brother. possibly unnamed daughter, who became abbess of Wherwell. Unlike her mother-in-law, Ælfthryth, Ælfgifu was not anointed queen and never signed charters...

Ælfthryth. 988 19 May – death of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. He is succeeded by Æthelgar. 990 13 February – death of Æthelgar, Archbishop of Canterbury...

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...

founded by Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar) in about the year 979 on a site near the River Avon. Henry II replaced it in 1177 with a house of the Order of Fontevraud...

Æthelwold married Ælfthryth, and after his death in 962 she became the wife of King Edgar the Peaceful (r.  959–975) and the mother of King Æthelred the...

machinations of Edgar's second (third?) wife, Ælfthryth. Wulfthryth was an English noblewoman, a cousin of Wulfhild, born about 937, whom King Edgar of England...

Edgar Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126) - Elected King of England after the Battle of Hastings but submitted to William the Conqueror. Saint Margaret of Scotland...

"plot of land". Spaul explains: "The legend of Edgar and Ælfthryth as fabricated by romantic poets in the 12th century and related by William of Malmesbury...

978–1000 Ælfthryth, (the first king's wife known to have been crowned and anointed as Queen of the Kingdom of England), widow of Edgar, mother of Æthelred...

restored by Edgar's and Ælfthryth's son, King Æthelred the Unready. Another version of the story says that Queen Ælfthryth, as overseer of the abbey, deposed...

In 979, Queen Ælfthryth, wife of King Edgar of England, founded a royal nunnery on the site as an act of repentance for the murder of her stepson, King...

daughter of the king of West Francia (and future Holy Roman Emperor) Charles the Bald, as well as the marriage of Alfred the Great's daughter Ælfthryth to Judith's...

(where she raised her daughter), and Edgar had bestowed the abbey with treasure and land. In 964 Edgar married Ælfthryth, in a Christian ceremony which would...

killed at the Battle of Hastings, the Witan elected Edgar Ætheling as king, but by then the Normans controlled the country and Edgar never ruled. He submitted...

in England. He had the strong support of Edgar and his wife, Ælfthryth, and his works emphasise the role of Edgar, who he saw as Christ's representative...

Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury; Ælfthryth, who married Baldwin, count of Flanders; and Æthelweard. Alfred's grandfather, Ecgberht, became king of Wessex in...

was an abbey of Benedictine nuns in Wherwell, Hampshire, England. The nunnery was founded about 986 by Ælfthryth, the widow of King Edgar. She retired...

Ealdorman of Essex, then of East Anglia after his father became a monk. Queen Ælfthryth, daughter of Ealdorman Ordgar, who was later the third wife of King...

the family tree for monarchs of England (and Wales after 1282) from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth I of England. The House of Wessex family tree precedes...

and writer (approximate date) Ælfthryth, English queen and wife of Edgar I (approximate date) Barjawan, vizier and regent of the Fatimid Caliphate Fantinus...