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28 de may. de 2024 · The appointment of Alfred’s daughter, Æthelgifu, as the first abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey, underscored the personal significance of the foundation. Æthelgifu’s role was not merely ceremonial; she was entrusted with the task of establishing and leading the new religious community.
Hace 6 días · HOUSE OF BENEDICTINE NUNS 7. THE ABBEY OF SHAFTESBURY. The Benedictine nunnery of Shaftesbury is generally, though not universally, ascribed to the foundation of Alfred the Great about the year 888; the king, by his charter in honour of God the Blessed Virgin and all the saints, conferring on the nunnery, over which his daughter Elfgiva, Æthelgeofu or Algiva, presided as abbess, 100 hides of ...
Hace 3 días · 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.
13 de may. de 2024 · Abstract. This chapter explores the ways in which ideas about spiritual reproduction that were fostered in monastic and episcopal households in the seventh and eighth centuries were adopted in royal households in the ninth to eleventh centuries to develop metanarratives of spiritual paternity.
The manor was bequeathed by Æthelgifu to Queen Ælfgifu about 942–6, and was granted by King Ethelred in 996 to the monastery of St. Albans.
29 de may. de 2024 · How to say Æthelflæd in English? Pronunciation of Æthelflæd with 4 audio pronunciations and more for Æthelflæd.
Hace 3 días · Preston in Candeveresdene (xv cent.); Kandavor (xvii cent.). The parish of Preston Candover, containing 3,457 acres, lies on comparatively low ground, south of the high country round Farleigh Wallop and Nutley, and north-west of that which rises to Wield and beyond Wield to Medsted. The ground rises generally from west to east, the greatest ...
