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Personal data Aelfthryth "Elfrida" van Wessex 

  • Nickname is Elfrida.
  • She was born in the year 868 in Wessex.

    Waarschuwing Attention: Was younger than 16 years (12) when child (Adalolf I van Boulonge) was born (??-??-880) .

  • (Levens event) .Source 1
    Ælfthryth of Wessex (877 – June 7, 929), also known as Elftrudis (Elftrude, Elfrida), was an English princess and a countess consort of Flanders.
    Life

    She was the youngest child of Alfred the Great, the Saxon King of England and his wife Ealhswith. She had four or five siblings, including King Edward the Elder and Ethelfleda.

    Ælfthryth married Baldwin II (died 918), Count of Flanders.

    They had the following issue:

    Arnulf I of Flanders (c. 890–964), married Adela of Vermandois
    Adalulf (c. 890–933), Count of Boulogne
    Ealswid
    Ermentrud

    Ælfthryth was an ancestor of Matilda of Flanders, who married William the Conqueror, first monarch from the House of Normandy, which means that even after the Norman conquest of England, all the monarchs of England, were also descendants of the House of Wessex as well.
    In fiction

    Ælfthryth was the subject of the award-winning young adult novel Journey For a Princess by Margaret Leighton (1960: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, NY). In this book, she is called Elstrid.
  • She died on June 7, 929, she was 61 years old.
  • A child of Alfred "De Grote" van Wessex and Alswitha Ealswith
  • This information was last updated on December 26, 2012.

Household of Aelfthryth "Elfrida" van Wessex

She is married to Boudewijn II "de kale" van Vlaanderen.

They got married in the year 884, she was 16 years old.Source 2


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    Sources

    1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfthryth,_Countess_of_Flanders
    2. kwartierstaat Persijn

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