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(1) He is married to Aelflaed.

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(2) He is married to Aedgifu (ook Edgiva) van Kent.

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Notes about Eduard de Oudere van Engeland

Eduard de Oudere (Engels: Edward the Elder) (871-924) was koning van Engeland van 899 tot 924. Hij was de zoon van Alfred de Grote, die hij opvolgde na diens dood.
Zijn opvolging werd betwist door zijn neef Ethelwold, die zich had aangesloten bij de Denen in Northumbria en East Anglia. De dood van Ethelwold in 902 maakte een eind aan deze strijd.
Eduard was een uitstekend militair leider en wist het Deense gebied met geweld en geduld terug te brengen onder Engelse heerschappij. In 901 begon hij zijn strijd tegen de Denen (Vikingen) en versloeg in 906 een grote strijdmacht die Kent en Essex was binnengevallen. In 907 werd een vrede bereikt met de Denen in East Anglia en York. In 910 versloeg hij de Denen in het noorden en wist daamee heerser te worden over het grootste deel van Engeland.
Eduard trouwde tweemaal en kreeg vele kinderen. Nadat zijn zoon en opvolger Ethelweard na een koningschap van slechts 16 dagen overleed, werd deze opgevolgd door de waarschijnlijk buitenechtelijke zoon van Eduard Athelstan. Twee andere zoons, Edmund en Edred, bestegen eveneens de troon. Zijn dochter Hedwig van Wessex, trouwde met Karel de Eenvoudige en met Herbert III van Vermandois. Zijn dochter Edith huwde met Otto de Grote.
Eduard stierf in 924 en werd evenals zijn vader begraven in de New Minster van Winchester.
(bron: nl.wikipedia.org)

Edward had four siblings, including Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.
King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, and may have had illegitimate children too.
Edward first married Ecgwynn around 893 and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric Cáech, King of Dublin and York in 926. Nothing is known about Ecgwynn other than her name, which was not even recorded until after the Conquest.
When he became king in 899, Edward married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire. Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor; Eadgifu, whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933 was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.
Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Eadgifu, the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Eadred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married Louis l'Aveugle.
Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Ælfflæd, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.
(bron: en.wikipedia.org)

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