alone its manner. No children of Æthelwald and Ælfthryth are known. Edgar had two children before he married Ælfthryth, both of uncertain legitimacy. Edward...

king's wife, whereas she also had the status of being the queen. Unlike Edgar's earlier consorts, Ælfthryth became politically influential, and Edgar appointed...

Queen Ælfthryth can refer to: Ælfthryth, wife of King Coenwulf of Mercia (fl. 810s) Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar), king of England, mother of Ethelred the...

possible daughter, name unknown, who became abbess of Wherwell. Unlike her mother-in-law, Ælfthryth, Ælfgifu was not anointed queen and never signed charters...

Abbey), (2) Bishop Æthelwold (in person), (3) members of the royal family (Edgar, Queen Ælfthryth and Edward the Martyr), and (4) her closest relatives...

Ælfflæd of Whitby, daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Eanflæd, abbess of Whitby Abbey (654–714) Saint Ælfthryth of Crowland (died c. 795) Ælfthryth, wife...

the verge of manhood" in 975. The younger son was Æthelred, whose mother, Ælfthryth, Edgar had married in 964. Ælfthryth was the daughter of Ordgar, ealdorman...

of Canterbury, and Æthelwine, Ealdorman of East Anglia, while Æthelred was backed by his mother, Queen Ælfthryth and her friend Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester...

Anglo-Saxon nobility treated it as a residence, such as Queen Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar, and there are postholes belonging to a Saxon hall on the site...

overlapped with his marriage to Æthelflæd. Edgar's subsequent wife Ælfthryth questioned the legitimacy of Edgar's marriage to Æthelflæd in order to present...