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Æthelflæd Æthelflæd (from The Cartulary and Customs of Abingdon Abbey, c. 1220) Lady of the Mercians Reign 911–918 Predecessor Æthelred Successor Ælfwynn Born c. 870 Died 12 June 918 (aged c. 48) Tamworth, Staffordshire Burial St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester Spouse Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians Issue Ælfwynn, Lady of the Mercians House Wessex Father Alfred the Great Mother Ealhswith ...
In the Handbook of British Chronology David Dumville lists Æthelred as King Æthelred II, and thus a successor to the seventh century King Æthelred of Mercia. [59] Keynes takes the West Saxon view, arguing that Alfred created the "kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons", inherited by his son Edward the Elder in 899, and Æthelred ruled Mercia under the ...
Ælfwynn's parents may have married as early as 882 and not later than 887. According to William of Malmesbury, Ælfwynn was the only child of Æthelflæd and Æthelred.. The date of her birth is not recorded, but it is presumed that she was born soon after her parents' marriage, perhaps around 8
She is attested by Eadmer's Life of St Dunstan, which says that Æthelflæd Eneda, daughter of Ordmær, ealdorman (dux) of the East Angles, became the lawful wife (coniunx legitima) of Edgar while he was king of the Mercians (between 957 and 959), and died 'a few years later'.
The novel A Chronicle of Ethelfled (1861), by Anne Manning, focused on the relationship between Æthelflæd (called "Ethelfled" in the novel) and her father, King Alfred. [ 1 ] The 1930 novel Elfwin by S. Fowler Wright features Æthelflæd (called Ethelfleda in the text).
No reign is explicitly attributed to him here. However, a list of West-Saxon kings in the 12th-century Textus Roffensis [1] mentions him as his father's successor, with a reign of four weeks. [2] He is also described as king in the New Minster Liber Vitae, [3] [4] an 11th-century source based in part on earlier material.
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Æthelflæd / ˈ æ θ əl f l æ d / is an Anglo-Saxon female name meaning "noble beauty". Notable people with the name include: Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, daughter of Alfred the Great