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Personal data Ealhswith van de Gaini 

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Household of Ealhswith van de Gaini

She is married to Alfred van Wessex.

They got married.


Child(ren):

  1. Ælfthryth van Wessex  ± 869-929 
  2. Eduard I van Wessex  ± 869-± 924 


Notes about Ealhswith van de Gaini

EALHSWITH ([848/53]-904).  Asser records the marriage in 868 of Alfred and "a noble Mercian lady, daughter of Athelred surnamed Mucil earl of the Gaini…[and] Edburga of the royal line of Mercia"[155].  Roger of Hoveden records the names of her parents, specifying that her mother was related to the kings of Mercia[156].  Her birth date is estimated from her having given birth to her first child in 869.  "Ealhswith mater regis" subscribed a charter of King Edward dated 901[157].  She founded the convent of St Mary's at Winchester, and became a nun there after her husband died.  m (868) ALFRED of Wessex, son of ÆTHELWULF King of Wessex & his [first] wife Osburga (Wantage, Berkshire 849[158]-26 Oct 899, bur Winchester Cathedral, transferred to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, later called the New Minster).  He succeeded in 871 as ALFRED King of Wessex. 

Bronnen:

[155] Asser, p. 11. 

[156] Roger of Hoveden I, p. 38.  According to Weir (2002), p. 9, Eadburh was perhaps the daughter of Cenwulf King of Mercia, although the basis of this hypothesis is not clear. 

[157] S 363. 

[158] Asser, Part I. 

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