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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.
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.
In September 1051, Judith was forced to flee England for Bruges, along with her husband and in-laws, after Tostig's father Godwin, Earl of Wessex was exiled by King Edward the Confessor; however, they returned home the following year. He was created Earl of Northumbria in 1055, making Judith the Countess of Northumbria, from that date.
Only queen regnant, ruled after her husband's death. 674: Cenfus ... 21st King of Wessex 802–839: Judith c. 843–870: Æthelwulf c. 795 –858 22nd King of Wessex
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.
Sophie, 57, made a subtle sartorial nod to the late monarch with her funeral outfit.
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.
The event comes on the third day of festivities to mark 70 years since the Queen’s reign began.