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Données personnelles Queen Ealhswith of Mercia 

• Elle est née en l'an 852 dans Mercia, England.
• Elle est décédée le 5 décembre 902 dans St Mary's Abbey, Winchester, Dorset, England, UK, elle avait 50 ans.
• Elle est enterrée dans New Minster, Winchester.
• Un enfant de Æthelred Mucel et Eadburh Fadburn

Famille de Queen Ealhswith of Mercia

Elle est mariée avec Alfred The Great of the Anglo-Saxons.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 868, elle avait 16 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Aethelflaed of Wessex  ± 870-918 
2. Edward I "The Elder" of the Anglo-Saxons  878-924 
3. Princess Ælfthryth of Wessex  877-929 

Notes par Queen Ealhswith of Mercia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealhswith

 

Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucil (or Mucel), Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family, and according to the historian Cyril Hart she was a descendant of King Coenwulf of Mercia.^[1]

 

he was married to Alfred in 868. His elder brother Æthelred was then king, and Alfred was regarded as heir apparent.^[2][3] The Danes occupied the Mercian town of Nottingham in that year, and the marriage was probably connected with an alliance between Wessex and Mercia.^[4] Alfred became king on his brother's death in 871.

Ealhswith is very obscure in contemporary sources. She did not witness any known charters, and Asser did not even mention her name in his life of King Alfred. In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen. According to King Alfred, this was because of the infamous conduct of a former queen of Wessex called Eadburh, who had accidentally poisoned her husband.^[5]

Alfred left his wife three important symbolic estates in his will, Edington in Wiltshire, the site of one important victory over the Vikings, Lambourn in Berkshire, which was near another, and Wantage, his birthplace. These were all part of his bookland, and they stayed in royal possession after her death.^[3]

It was probably after Alfred's death in 899 that Ealhswith founded the convent of St Mary's Abbey, Winchester, known as the Nunnaminster. She died on 5 December 902, and was buried in her son Edward's new Benedictine abbey, the New Minster, Winchester. She is commemorated in two early tenth century manuscripts as "the true and dear lady of the English".^[3]

Ealhswith had a brother called Æ;thelwulf,^[3] who was ealdorman of western and possibly central Mercia under his niece's husband, Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, in the 890s.^[6] He died in 901.^[7]

 

Alfred and Ealhswith had five children who survived to adulthood.^[3]

• Æthelflæd (d. 918), Lady of the Mercians, married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians
• Edward the Elder (d. 924), King of the Anglo-Saxons
• Æthelgifu, made abbess of her foundation at Shaftesbury by her father
• Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (d. 929), married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders
• Æthelweard (d. c.920)

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