Stammbaum Familie Berends » Eadgifu of Wessex Queen of the West Franks (902-951)

Personal data Eadgifu of Wessex Queen of the West Franks 

  • She was born in the year 902 in Wessex.
  • Title: Queen of the West Franks
  • (FIRST+MARRIAGE+TO+KING+CHARLES+III+OF+FRANCE ) in the year 919.
  • (Title of Nobility ) du 0919 au 0923: Reine des Francs .
  • (Title of Nobility ) : Princess of Wessex, Queen of the West Franks, Dowager Queen Mother of the West Franks, Countess of Omois..
  • (Title of Nobility ) : Princesse de Wessex.
  • (CHARLES+II+DEPOSED+AS+KING+OF+FRANCE ) June 922.
  • (HUSBAND+CHARLES+III+CAPTURED+AND+IMPRISONED+ ) about July 923 in Château-Thierry, Aisne, Picardie, France: Charles III was taken prisoner by Count Herbert II of Vermandois in 923 and imprisoned until his death..
  • (FLED+TO+ENGLAND ) about July 923 in Wessex: After her husband King Charles III of France was deposed in 922, Eadgifu took her infant son Louis, and the other royal children, to England in 923, to the protection of her half-brother, King Æthelstan of England.
  • (CHARLES+III+DIED+IN+CAPTIVITY ) on October 7, 929 in Péronne, Péronne, Somme, Picardie, France.
  • (ACCOMPANIED+LOUIS+IV+IN+HIS+RETURN+TO+FRANCE+TO+BECOME+KING ) in the year 936: Louis IV was recalled to France in 936 by Hugh the Great to become King, his mother Eadgifu accompanied him and witnessed his coronation..
  • (AFTER+LOUIS+MARRIED%2C+EADGIFU+RETIRED+TO+CONVENT+IN+LAON ) after 939 in Laon-Nord, Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France: Louis IV married Gerberga of Saxony in 939, sometime after that Eadgifu retired from court and took up residence at a convent in Laon..
  • (SECOND+MARRIAGE+TO+HERBERT+III+COUNT+OF+OMOIS ) in the year 951: Married the son of the man that imprisoned her husband and caused her to flee France in 923.
  • (ABDUCTED+FOR+LOVE ) in the year 951 in Laon-Nord, Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France: In 951, Heribert the Old, Count of Omois, abducted and married her, to the great anger of her son Louis IV of France.
  • (2nd+of+Edward+and+%C3%86lffl%C3%A6d%27s+6+daughters ) : William of Malmesbury names (in order) "Edfleda, Edgiva, Ethelhilda, Ethilda, Edgitha, Elfgiva" as the six daughters of King Eadweard & his wife "Elfleda"..
  • (PLEASE+BE+CAREFUL+WHEN+MERGING%21 ) : Had 8 sisters, all with very similar names. Do not confuse them..
  • She died on December 26, 951 in Soissons-Sud, Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France, she was 49 years old.
  • She is buried after 955 in Aisne, Picardie, France.
  • A child of Edward the Elder King of the English and Ælfflæd of Wiltshire
  • This information was last updated on January 7, 2022.

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She is married to Charles III "le Simple" Roi des Francs.

They got married on January 7, 918 at Wessex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, Great Britain, she was 16 years old.


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