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Æthelswith. 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. Her marriage probably signaled the subordination of Burgred to his father-in-law and the Saxon kingdom at a time when both Wessex and Mercia were suffering Danish (Viking) raids.
Etelswita. Ethelswita de Mercia (en inglés antiguo: Æthelswith; 838 o 841 – Italia, 888) fue la única hija conocida de Ethelwulfo rey de Wessex y de Osburga. Se convirtió en reina al casar con Burgred de Mercia, en 853. La pareja no tuvo descendencia.
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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. In 853, she married Burgred a year after he had been crowned the king of Mercia. Together, the two ruled the kingdom for more than twenty years, and bore witness to the Viking expansioninto England from the early 860s. On several occassions, she and Burgred would call upon her brother King Aethelred of Wessex to assist...
Capture and exile
In 873, Æthelswith and her husband, along with the loyal thegn Leofrith, made their final stand at the fortress of Tamworth. As the Vikings laid siege to the fortress, Leofrith assisted Burgred, Æthelswith and her maidens in escaping the stronghold to safety. While Bugred hid in an unmarked crypt in the region, Æthelswith and her maidens were hidden in the Templebrough Fortuntil Leofrith rallied the remaining Mercians and hit back at the Vikings. This plan did not last long as word of Æthelsw...
Æthelswith is a historical character in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. She is voiced by English actress Lucy Briers.
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. He halted his horses, and bent down to pick up the shiny ...
Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
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”.
Burgred became king of Mercia in 852, [1] and may have been related to his predecessor Beorhtwulf. [2] After Easter in 853, Burgred married Æthelswith, daughter of Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons. [1] The marriage was celebrated at the royal villa of Chippenham in Wessex.
