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Personal data Alswitha Ealswith 

• She was born in the year 852 in Mercia.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Ealhswith of Ealswitha (Mercia, ca. 852 – 5 december 905) was de dochter van een adellijk persoon uit het koninkrijk Mercia, Æthelred Mucil, ealdorman van de Gaini, en diens vrouw Eadburh. Zij was via haar moeder gerelateerd aan het koninklijk huis van Mercia.
  
  Zij trouwde in 868 met Alfred de Grote. Dit was voordat hij koning van Wessex werd.[2] In overeenstemming met het negende-eeuwse West-Saksische gebruik, kreeg zij niet de titel van koningin
  
  Na Alfreds dood in 899 werd Ealhswith een non. Zij stierf op 5 december 905 en ligt begraven in de abdij van Sint Mary, Winchester, Hampshire.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucil (or Mucel), Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family, and according to the historian Cyril Hart she She was married to Alfred in 868. His elder brother Æthelred was then king, and Alfred was regarded as heir apparent.[2][3] The Danes occupied the Mercian town of Nottingham in that year, and the marriage was probably connected with an alliance between Wessex and Mercia.[4] Alfred became king on his brother's death in 871.
  
  Ealhswith is very obscure in contemporary sources. She did not witness any known charters, and Asser did not even mention her name in his life of King Alfred. In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen. According to King Alfred, this was because of the infamous conduct of a former queen of Wessex called Eadburh, who had accidentally poisoned her husband.[5]
  
  Alfred left his wife three important symbolic estates in his will, Edington in Wiltshire, the site of one important victory over the Vikings, Lambourn in Berkshire, which was near another, and Wantage, his birthplace. These were all part of his bookland, and they stayed in royal possession after her death.[3]
  
  It was probably after Alfred's death in 899 that Ealhswith founded the convent of St Mary's Abbey, Winchester, known as the Nunnaminster. She died on 5 December 902, and was buried in her son Edward's new Benedictine abbey, the New Minster, Winchester. She is commemorated in two early tenth century manuscripts as "the true and dear lady of the English"was a descendant of King Cenwulf of Mercia

• She died on December 5, 902 in Winchester, Hampshire, she was 50 years old.
• A child of Aethelred Mucil and Eadburga van Mercia
• This information was last updated on December 26, 2012.

Household of Alswitha Ealswith

She is married to Alfred "De Grote" van Wessex.

They got married in the year 868, she was 16 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Aethelgifu van Wessex  ????-896
2. Eadmund van Wessex  
3. Elfreda van Wessex  
4. Aelfthryth van Wessex  868-929 
5. Aethelflaed van Wessex  869-918 
6. Edward I "the Elder" van Wessex  874-924 
7. Aethelweard van Wessex  880-922

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