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Données personnelles Ordgar van Devonshire 

• Il est né en l'an 910.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Ordgar (ca. 910 - 971) was een belangrijke Engelse edelman uit de tiende eeuw.
  
  Ordgar was een grootgrondbezitter in Cornwall en Devon. Hij stichtte het klooster van St Rumon in Cornwall en de Onze Lieve Vrouwe munster in Tavistock. De stichtingen werden na zijn dood door zijn zoon Ordulf afgerond. In 964 trouwde zijn dochter Ælfthryth met koning Edgar van Engeland. Bij die gelegenheid werd Ordgar benoemd tot ealderman (hertog). Ordgar gaf een landgoed in Berkshire als bruidsschat. Tot aan zijn dood was Ordgar een belangrijke adviseur van de koning. Ordgar is begraven te Exeter.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon (died 971) was an English West Country landowner notable as a presumed close advisor of Edgar the Peaceful, king of England, and as the father of Ælfthryth, the king's third wife and mother of Æthelred the Unready. Ordgar was created an Ealdorman by Edgar in 964.
  Biography
  
  Little is known about Ordgar; three key sources are his name as witness on charters of King Edgar between 962 and 970;[1] and digressions in William of Malmesbury's Gesta pontificum Anglorum and in Geoffrey Gaimar's L'Estoire des Engles concerned with the love affairs and marriages of his daughter Ælfthryth.[2]
  
  According to Gaimar, Ordgar was the son of an ealdorman, and was a landowner in every village from Exeter to Frome. He married an unknown lady of royal birth, by whom he had a daughter Ælfthryth. When King Edgar sent a messenger to woo Ælfthryth, he found her and her father, whom she completely controlled, playing at chess, which they had learned from the Danes. The messenger, Æthelwald son of Æthelstan Half-King - a leading member of a very prominent Anglo-Saxon family--instead took Ælfthryth for his own, marrying her ca. 956.[3][1] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography draws a conclusion that Ordgar was "clearly a figure of some importance" to have secured such a match.[1]
  
  Æthelwald died in 962, and some suspicion, notably on the part of Dunstan, rests on Ælfthryth for his death, together with the seduction of Edgar and later murder of his son Edward the Martyr to pave the way for her son Æthelred to ascend to the throne. Whatever the circumstances, Ælfthryth became Edgar's third wife in 964 and in the same year Ordgar was created Ealdorman. The ODNB infers that Ordgar from this point until 970 was one of Edgar's closest advisors, by virtue of his being named on virtually all charters issued by Edgar in the period.[1]
  
  Tavistock Abbey was founded in 961 by Ordgar and completed by his son Ordulf in 981, in which year the charter of confirmation was granted by King Ethelred II. It was endowed with lands in Devon, Dorset and Cornwall, and became one of the richest abbeys in the west of England.
  
  Ordgar died in 971 and according to Florence of Worcester was buried at Exeter

• Il est décédé en l'an 971, il avait 61 ans.
• Il est enterré dans Exeter.
• Un enfant de Leofric van Mercia et Aelfwynn van Mercia
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 9 novembre 2012.

Famille de Ordgar van Devonshire

Enfant(s):

1. Edulf van Devonshire  
2. Leofric van Devonshire  
3. Ordwulf van Devonshire  
4. Aelfthryth van Devonshire  945-1000 

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