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Judith of Flanders (c. 843 – 870 or later) was a Carolingian princess who became Queen of Wessex by two successive marriages and later Countess of Flanders. Judith was the eldest child of the Carolingian emperor Charles the Bald and his first wife, Ermentrude of Orléans. In 856, she married Æthelwulf, King of Wessex.
Ermentrude of Orléans and Charles II, also known as "The Bald", married in 842. Their children were: Judith (844–870 or later), Queen of Wessex by her marriages with Kings Æthelwulf and Æthelbald, Countess of Flanders by her marriage with Margrave Baldwin I; Louis II of West Francia, also known as "The Stammerer" (846–879) [18]
Judith of Flanders (1030-1035 to 5 March 1095) [2] was, by her successive marriages to Tostig Godwinson and Welf I, Countess of Northumbria and Duchess of Bavaria.. She was the owner of many books and illuminated manuscripts, which she bequeathed to Weingarten Abbey (two of which are now held at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York).
Osburh's existence is known only from Asser's Life of King Alfred.She is not named as witness to any charters, nor is her death reported in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.So far as is known, she was the mother of all Æthelwulf's children, his five sons Æthelstan, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred and Alfred, and his daughter Æthelswith, wife of King Burgred of Mercia.
14. Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. Born in 1964, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, is Queen Elizabeth II’s youngest child. ... (the way children of the Queen’s sons are). The Princess Royal’s ...
6. She was also 38th in direct line of descent from Egbert, King of Wessex from 802 and King of England from 827 to 839. 7. Aged five weeks, she was christened in the chapel at Buckingham Palace.
In Wessex it was not customary for kings' wives to be queens but Judith was crowned queen following her marriage to Æthelwulf. [1] [2] [3] Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519 AD until England was unified by Æthelstan (who never married) in 927 AD.
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn at the 2013 Trooping the Colour Ceremony. Getty Images Upon birth, he received the title ...