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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.
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury (died 944) was the first wife of King Edmund I (r. 939–946). She was Queen of the English from her marriage in around 939 until her death in 944. Ælfgifu and Edmund were the parents of two future English kings, Eadwig (r. 955–959) and Edgar (r. 959–975). [1]
Thored, Earl of Southern Northumbria. Ælfgifu of York (fl. c. 970 – 1002) was the first wife of Æthelred the Unready, King of the English; as such, she was Queen of the English from their marriage in the 980s until her death in 1002. They had many children together, including Edmund Ironside.
- fl. c. 970
- 980s–1002
- c. 1002
- Æthelred the Unready
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.
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...
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 ...
Detail of the names of Eadgifu (Edgyfu) and Æthelgifu (Æþelyfu) in the will of Wynflæd: Cotton Ch VIII 38 The new manumissions in the Bodmin Gospels, uncovered with the aid of multispectral imaging, are incredibly exciting.
