The Gaini (or Ganni were an Anglo-Saxon tribe which made up part of the kingdom of Mercia. Map of Anglo-Saxon England The Gaini were established at present-dayGainsborough, in Lincolnshire on the River Trent, by the time of King Alfred, though it was not mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle until 1013, Gainsborough is taken from Gains Burgh meaning a fortified settlement(Burgh) of the Gaini. Gainsborough was only a smallhamlet, whereas 5 miles upstream was the much larger hamlet of Torksey, mentioned in the Chronicles much earlier, in 873 CE, and which had 213 burgess at the time of the Domesday Survey. In 868, before he became king, Alfred the Greatmarried Ealhswith, daughter of a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred, known as Mucel, ealdorman of the Gaini. Æthelred witnessed several charters between 867 and 895, and he is probably identical with the ealdorman Mucel who witnessed Mercian charters between 836 and 866. He may have been the son of another ealdorman Mucel who witnessed Mercian charters from 814 to the 840s, and this Mucel in turn was probably the son of ealdorman Esne who witnessed Mercian charters in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Ealhswith's brother, Æthelwulf, who died in 903, was also described as an ealdorman. The Rulers (and their family) of the Gaini tribe. Esne, (c.765 - 814 AD Mucel, (son of Esne). (c.814 - 848 AD Æthelred, (son of Mucel). (c.848 – 895 AD Eadburh, (wife of Æthelred). Ealhswith,(daughter of Æthelred) wife of Alfred the great. Æthelwulf, (son of Æthelred). (c.895 – 903 AD Æthelgyth, (daughter of Æthelwulf).
Hij had een relatie met Eadburga princess of Mercia.
Kind(eren):
grootouders
ouders
broers/zussen
kinderen
De getoonde gegevens hebben geen bronnen.