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He sent an embassy to King Æthelstan asking for an alliance and one of his sisters in marriage. He supposedly sent lavish gifts including saint’s relics which Æthelstan was famous for collecting. After many negotiations and more gift exchanges, Æthelstan chose his half-sister Eadhild to marry Hugh.
Hedwig of Saxony. Hedwige of Saxony (also Hedwig, German: Hadwig von Sachsen; c. 910 – after 958-959), a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duchess consort of the Franks by her marriage to the Robertian duke Hugh the Great. Upon her husband's death in 956, she acted as a regent during the minority of their son Hugh Capet, the founder of the ...
Hugh was one of those who brought Louis IV ( d'Outremer) from the Kingdom of England in 936. [7] In 937 Hugh married Hedwige of Saxony, a daughter of Henry I the Fowler of Germany and Matilda of Ringelheim. [8] Very soon however Hugh was quarrelling with King Louis. In 939 king Louis attacked Hugh the Great and William I, Duke of Normandy.
Eadgifu was one of three West Saxon sisters married to Continental rulers: the others were Eadgyth, who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great. Eadgifu became the second wife of Charles the Simple (more correctly "the Straightforward") King of the West Franks, whom she married between 917 and 919 after the death of his first wife. Eadgifu was mother to King ...
In 926 Eadhild married Hugh the Great, ‘duke of the Franks’, an extremely powerful magnate whose father, King Robert I (922-3), had fought a bloody civil war against Charles.
4 de ago. de 2023 · Family Overview. Edward the Elder was the son of one of the greatest Kings of England and the brother to a successful Queen of Mercia. He would have three wives and seemed to be a bit more promiscuous than his father and son Athelstan. Three of his sons would become King and try to continue what Alfred, Edward, and Athelstan had completed.
20 de jul. de 2023 · On the great Alfred's death, the succession was disputed between Edward or Eadweard and Ethelwald, the son of Alfred's elder brother Ethelred I. The Witan elected Edward as King. Coin of Edward the Elder. Ethelwald reacted by seizing the crown estates at Wimborne and Christchurch. Edward was quick to respond to the threat, but his cousin ...
