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Æthelswith (c. 838–888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. The couple had no known issue.
11 de ene. de 2024 · Æthelswith Queen of Mercia of Mercia (Wessex) aka of Wessex (est. 840 - est. 888)
5 de feb. de 2024 · Æthelswith: The Mercian queen whose gold ring was unearthed by a Victorian ploughman. In 1870, a man was ploughing a field in West Yorkshire, in the countryside between the towns of Aberford and Sherburn on Elmet. As his plough overturned a row of soil, he glanced a glimmer of gold.
A ninth-century finger ring from Driffield, Yorkshire, now lost (Okasha 1971, no. 33), has various features in common with the Æthelswith ring, including an inscription on the bezel and hoop which translates, “Behold the Lamb of God”.
Æthelswith (c. 838 – 888) was the Queen of Mercia from 853 as the wife of King Burgred. An Anglo-Saxon noblewoman from the House of Wessex, Æthelswith was the daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and thus the sister of future Kings Alfred the Great and Aethelred.
Æthelswith Ring, finger-ring, Late Anglo-Saxon, Aberford | The British Museum Images. View and buy royalty free and rights managed stock photos at The British Museum Images.
27 de oct. de 2023 · Aethelswith Crowned Queen of Mercia. This paper explores how kinship may have impacted upon the careers of two powerful queens of Mercia: Cynethryth wife of King Offa (757-796) and Æthelswith (d. 886), wife of Burgred (r. 852-874).
