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• Elle est née environ 833 dans Wessex, England.
• Elle est décédée en l'an 888 dans Pavia, Italy.
• Un enfant de Aethelwulf √Ü√æelwulf Wessex The Anglo-Saxons et Osburga Queen Consort of Wessex
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 8 juin 2018.

Famille de Aethelswith Æðelswyð of Mercia Queen of Mercia

Notes par Aethelswith Æðelswyð of Mercia Queen of Mercia

Æðelswyð
Gender:
Female
Birth:
circa 833
Wessex, UK
Death:
888 (51-59)
Pavia, Italy
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Aethelwulf, king of Wessex and Osburga, Queen Consort of Wessex
Wife of Burgred, king of Mercia
Mother of Beorhtnoð, æthling of Kent and Beorhtweald, Ealdorman of Kent
Sister of Æthelstan, king of Kent; Aethelbald, king of Wessex; Aethelbert, king of Wessex, Essex & Kent; Ethelred I 'the Pious', king of Wessex & Kent and Alfred the Great, king of The Anglo-Saxons

https://www.geni.com/people/Aethelswith-Queen-of-Mercia/6000000000632011834

Æthelswith (c. 838ဓ888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She became Queen Æthelswith when she married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. The couple had no issue. Her marriage probably signalled 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.[1]
References
1Simon Keynes & Michael Lapidge eds, Alfred the Great, Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics). London: Penguin, 1983, pp. 69, 113, 232, 281.
Further reading
On Queen Æthelswith's ring see:
·Ä¢Webster, Leslie (1991). "The Age of Alfred: Metalwork, wood and bone". In Webster, Leslie; Backhouse, Janet. The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900. London, UK: The Trustees of the British Museum. ISBN¬â€ 0-7141-0555-4¬â€ (Exhibition catalogue)
·Ä¢Wilson, David M. (1964). Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork 700-1100 in the British Museum. London, UK: The Trustees of the British Museum. OCLC¬â€ 183495.
External links
·Ä¢âˆšÜthelswith 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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