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Anglo-Saxon Royal Consorts: Emma of Normandy, Aelfgifu of Northampton, Aelfgifu, Wife of Eadwig, Aelfgifu of Shaftesbury, Ecgwynn, Aelfgifu of Yor

Anglo-Saxon Royal Consorts: Emma of Normandy, Aelfgifu of Northampton, Aelfgifu, Wife of Eadwig, Aelfgifu of Shaftesbury, Ecgwynn, Aelfgifu of Yor


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Emma of Normandy, AElfgifu of Northampton, AElfgifu, wife of Eadwig, AElfgifu of Shaftesbury, Ecgwynn, AElfgifu of York, Judith of Flanders, Eanflaed, AElfthryth, wife of Edgar, AEthelthryth, Osgyth, Cynethryth, Ealdgyth, daughter of Earl AElfgar, Edith of Wessex, Eadburh, Osthryth, Seaxburh of Ely, Osburh, Ealhswith, Ermenilda of Ely, AEthelburh of Kent, AEthelflaed of Damerham, Bertha of Kent, Emma of Austrasia, Redburga, Frithugyth, Cuthburh, AElfflaed of Mercia, AElfflaed, wife of Edward the Elder, AEthelburg of Wessex, Wulfrida, Ethelreda, daughter of Gospatric, Eadgifu of Kent. Excerpt: AElfgifu was the consort of King Eadwig of England (r. 955-59) for a brief period of time until 957 or 958. What little is known of her comes primarily by way of Anglo-Saxon charters, possibly including a will, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and hostile anecdotes in works of hagiography. Her union with the king, annulled within a few years of Eadwig's reign, seems to have been a target for factional rivalries which surrounded the throne in the late 950s. By c. 1000, when the careers of the Benedictine reformers Dunstan and Oswald became the subject of hagiography, its memory had suffered heavy degradation. In the mid-960s, however, she appears to have become a well-to-do landowner on good terms with King Edgar and through her will, a generous benefactress of ecclesiastical houses associated with the royal family, notably the Old Minster and New Minster at Winchester. Two genealogical hypotheses (green and blue) combined in a diagram: AElfgifu, her parents and siblings shown in redTwo facts about AElfgifu's family background are unambiguously stated by the sources. First, her mother bore the name of AEthelgifu, a woman of very high birth (natione praecelsa). Second, she was related to her husband Eadwig, since in 958 their marriage...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230500386
  • Publisher: University-Press.Org
  • Publisher Imprint: University-Press.Org
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1230500383
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Emma of Normandy, Aelfgifu of Northampton, Aelfgifu, Wife of Eadwig, Aelfgifu of Shaftesbury, Ecgwynn, Aelfgifu of Yor
  • Width: 189 mm


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