Ancestral Trails 2016 » Aethelswith of WESSSEX (838-888)

Données personnelles Aethelswith of WESSSEX 

• Elle est née en l'an 838 dans Wantage, Oxfordshire.
• Titre: Queen of Mercia
• Profession: apres 874 dans Became a nun.
• (Event) entre le 888 et le 889 dans Pilgrimage to Rome, but died in Paris on her way to Rome.
• Elle est décédée en l'an 888 dans Pavia, Pavia, Lombardia, Italy, elle avait 50 ans.Source 2
• Un enfant de AETHELWULF OF WESSEX et OSBURGH OF WIGHT

Famille de Aethelswith of WESSSEX

Elle est mariée avec Burghred of MERCIA.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 862 à Palace of Chippenham, Wiltshire, elle avait 24 ans.

Notes par Aethelswith of WESSSEX

Æthelswith (c. 838-888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. The couple had no known issue. Her marriage probably signaled the subordination of Burgred to his father-in-law and the Saxon kingdom at a time when both Wessex and Mercia were suffering Danish (Viking) raids. Burgred also had ongoing problems with the Kingdom of Powys on his western border and in 853 Æthelwulf subjugated the Welsh state on Burgred's behalf.

Repeated Danish incursions over the years gradually weakened Mercia militarily and in 868 Burgred was forced to call upon Æthelswith's brother King Æthelred of Wessex to assist him in confronting an entrenched Danish army at Nottingham. This was the last time the Saxons came to the aid of the Mercians and is also notable as the occasion on which Alfred the Great, another brother of Æthelswith's, married his Mercian wife Ealhswith.

Burgred's reign lasted till 874 when the Vikings drove him from the kingdom and he fled to Rome with Æthelswith. He died shortly after. Æthelswith lived on in Italy, to be buried at Pavia in 888
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelswith

Signs charters from circa 855-872. After the death of her husband in 874 she became a nun and around 889 went on pilgrimage to Rome but died in Paris on the way. Buried as Pavia or Ticino, Italy.
SOURCE: Alison Weir "Britain's Royal Families"

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