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Æthelgifu, Abbess of Shaftesbury. Æthelgifu ( Old English pronunciation: [ˈæðeljivu], fl. 870s to 890s) was a daughter of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. She was the third surviving child of the marriage between Alfred and Ealhswith in 868.
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.
- circa 875
- 896 (16-25)England?
- Wessex, Eng.
15 de may. de 2023 · Little is known about Æthelgifu, the third daughter of Alfred the Great, except that she became the first abbess of a new house founded at Shaftesbury in around 893, which was destined to remain...
29 de nov. de 2021 · The noblewoman Æthelgifu and her daughter, Queen Ælfgifu, are two of many examples of influential women who ended up on the wrong side of history. Dunstan’s hagiographer reduced these two powerful women to sexual objects that exist purely to reflect the morality of the men around them.
Alfred the Great founded the convent in about 888 and installed his daughter Æthelgifu as the first abbess. Ælfgifu , the wife of Alfred's grandson, King Edmund I , was buried at Shaftesbury and soon venerated as a saint, [3] and she came to be regarded by the house as its true founder.
6 de may. de 2021 · Explore genealogy for Æthelgifu (Wessex) of Shaftesbury born abt. 875 Wessex, England died 896 Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, England including ancestors + 3 genealogist comments + more in the free family tree community.
Dunstan’s forcible separation of Eadwig from the two women is presented as the genesis for a feud that plays out between Dunstan and the older of the two women, Æthelgifu. Where much previous analysis of this episode has focused on the saint, Dunstan, and the king, Eadwig, this article seeks to centre Æthelgifu as the primary antagonist of ...
