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• Zij is geboren in het jaar 896 in Kent, England.
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  Eadgifu of Kent/Edgiva/Ediva was the third wife of Edward the Elder, King of the Anglo-Saxons. Eadgifu became the mother of two sons, Edmund I of England, later King Edmund I, and Eadred of England, later King Eadred, and two daughters, Saint Eadburh of Winchester and Eadgifu. She survived Edward by many years, dying in the reign of her grandson Edgar. She disappeared from court during the reign of her step-son, King Æthelstan, but she was prominent and influential during the reign of her two sons. As queen dowager, her position seem to have been higher than that of her daughter-in-law; In a Kentish charter datable between 942 and 944, her daughter-in-law Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury subscribes herself as the king's concubine/concubina regis, with a place assigned to her between the bishops and ealdormen. By comparison, Eadgifu subscribes higher up in the witness list as mater regis, after her sons Edmund and Eadred but before the archbishops and bishops. Following the death of her youngerson Eadred in 955, she was deprived of her lands by her eldest grandson, King Eadwig, perhaps because she took the side of his younger brother, Edgar, in the struggle between them. When Edgar succeeded on Eadwig's death in 959 she recovered some lands and received generous gifts from her grandson, but she never returned to her prominent position at court. She is last recorded as a witness to a charter in 966. She was known as a supporter of saintly churchmen and a benefactor of churches. Eadgifu appears in a charter of her son Eadmund in 940 "Ego Eadmundus rex Anglorum ... Ego Eadgifu ejusdemregis mater ..." . In 943, Eadmund granted to his mother land at North Minster, Isle of Thanet, co. Kent. Eadgifu appears signing charters of her son Eadred in 947 "Ego Eadredus rex Anglorum ... Ego Eadgifu ejusdem regis mater ..." and 955 "Ego Eadgiuu ejusdem regis genitrix", her grandson Eadwig on 17 May 959 "Ego Eadwig Britannie Anglorum monarchus ... Ego Eadgiuu ejusdem regis Ava ..." , and her grandson Eadgar in 959 "Ego Eadgar Britannie Anglorum monarchus ... Ego Eadgiuu ejusdem regis ava ..." and 966 "Ego Eadgifu predicti regis ava" . She appears as "Ædgiva Efax" with her son Eadred in a charter of 956. For many years, Eadgifu had been involved in a dispute with a certain Goda and his sons, and that dispute is decribed in a charter of 961 which shows that Eadgifu was a daughter of the ealdorman Sigehelm who perished in the Battle of Holme in 902 "þa gelamp emb þa tid þæt man beonn ealle Cantware to wigge . to Holme . þa nold Sigelm hire fæder to wigge faron mid nanes mannes scette unagifnum . & agef þa Godan .XXX. punda . & becwaeþ Eadgife his dehter land & bóc sealde. Þa he on wigge afeallen wæs þa æt soc Goda þæs feos ægiftes . & þæs landes wyrnde . oð þæs on syxtan geare." Translation: "Then about that time it happened that all the Kentish men were summoned to war at Holme. Then Sigelm would not go to war with any man's money unpaid, and then paid Goda the 30 pounds, and bequeathed the land and gave the charter to his daughter Eadgifu. When he had fallen in the war, Goda denied the payment of the money, and refused the land, until the sixthyear after." In a charter dated 961, Eadgifu donated these lands and others to Christ Church, Canterbury "Anno dominice incarnationis. DCCCCLXI. Ego Edgyua regina & mater . Eadmundi . & Eadredi . regum . pro salute anime . mee . concedo ecclesie Christi in Dorobernia . monachis ibidem Deo servientibus has terras . Meapeham . Culinges . Leanham . Pettham . Fernlege . Munccetun . Ealdintun ... patrem meum Sigelmum ..." , with a description in Latin of the dispute recorded. She is last recorded in 966.

• Zij is overleden op 25 augustus 968 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, zij was toen 72 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Sigehelm of Kent

Gezin van Ædgifu of Kent

Zij is getrouwd met Edward the Elder "The Unconquered" van Engeland xx.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Edmund I "The Magnificent" King of England  ± 922-946 

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