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29 de dic. de 2023 · Æthelgifu Abbess of Shaftesbury, Aethelgeofu, Ethelgiva of Shaftesbury (Wessex) (est. 875 - uncertain 896)
Family Tree - Æthelgifu. ROYAL FAMILY TREE. Tracing the family history of the English and Scottish Royal Family back over 1000 years
15 de may. de 2023 · Æthelgifu: First Saxon Abbess Deborah M Jones Independently published, £7.99, 188 pages Recent years have seen the royal women of Anglo-Saxon England surge to prominence in a series of ...
4 Æthelgifu’s Will as Hagiography was published in Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England on page 82.
In the ninth century, Æthelgifu, the teenage daughter of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith, has an awesome destiny. She is to be the first abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded on a Wessex hilltop for safety from the Vikings. Leaving the dual religious house where she has been brought up, she arrives at her new home, the first great ...
21 de mar. de 2022 · Ælfthryth (Aelfthryth) "Countess of Flanders, Elfrida, Elftrudis" Flandre formerly Wessex. Born about 0877 in England. Ancestors. Daughter of Ælfred (Wessex) of Wessex and Ealhswith (Mercia) of Wessex. Sister of Æthelflæd (Wessex) of Mercia, Eadweard (Wessex) of England, Eadmund (Wessex) of Wessex, Æthelgifu (Wessex) of Shaftesbury and ...
26 de abr. de 2022 · Æthelgifu was the daughter of King Alfred the Great, an Anglo-Saxon king of the 9th century. She was the third of Alfred and his wife Ealhswith's five children and the second eldest daughter. She was likely born sometime in the 870s. A Welsh monk named Asser who wrote a biography of Alfred the Great, described her as 'devoted to God through ...
