Ælfflæd is a name of Anglo-Saxon England meaning Ælf (Elf) and flæd (beauty). It may refer to: Saint Ælfflæd of Whitby (654–714) Ælfflæd of Mercia, daughter...
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Ælfflæd (fl. early 10th century) was the second wife of the English king Edward the Elder. Ælfflæd was the daughter of an ealdorman Æthelhelm, probably...
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Ælfflæd with her. Upon Hilda's death in 680, Oswiu's widow, Eanflæd and their daughter Ælfflæd became joint abbesses and later in the 680s, Ælfflæd was...
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Ælfflæd was a daughter of Offa of Mercia and Cynethryth. She may have witnessed a charter with her father, mother, and brother Ecgfrith in the 770s. She...
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Ælfflæd or Æthelflæd (fl. 840) is not recorded before the twelfth century. William of Malmesbury describes Æthelflæd as the daughter of King Ceolwulf...
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daughter of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex and England, and his second wife Ælfflæd. Eadgifu was one of three West Saxon sisters married to Continental rulers:...
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recorded. She had at least one brother and at least one sister, Ælfflæd (died c. 1002). Ælfflæd was married to Byrhtnoth, who probably succeeded her father...
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daughter of Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons and his second wife Ælfflæd. In 926 Edward's son, king Æthelstan, received an embassy from his cousin...
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one known child, a daughter: Ælfflæd of Mercia. According to a tradition preserved at Evesham, Ceolwulf's daughter Ælfflæd married Wigmund, the son of...
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the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife Ælfflæd. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply states that Ælfweard died soon after...
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