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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.
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 ...
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”.
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11 de ene. de 2024 · Æthelswith Queen of Mercia of Mercia (Wessex) aka of Wessex (est. 840 - est. 888)
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. In 853, she married Burgred a...
27 de oct. de 2023 · Æthelswith was the first English queen to dispose of land in her own right and may possibly have been the first crowned queen in England. Æthelswith’s reign marks the apogee of Mercian queenship which I suggest was indicative of the rising power of Wessex.
