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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.
Etelswita. Ethelswita de Mercia (en inglés antiguo: Æthelswith; 838 o 841 – Italia, 888) fue la única hija conocida de Ethelwulfo rey de Wessex y de Osburga. Se convirtió en reina al casar con Burgred de Mercia, en 853. La pareja no tuvo descendencia.
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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”.
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.
Berhtwulf died in 852 and cooperation with Wessex continued under Burgred, his successor as King of Mercia, who married Æthelwulf's daughter Æthelswith in 853. In the same year Æthelwulf assisted Burgred in a successful attack on Wales to restore the traditional Mercian hegemony over the Welsh.
The other ring is decorated with a lamb with a halo and the letters A and D which stand for ‘Agnus Dei’ – the Lamb of God, a symbolic reference to Christ. Engraved inside the ring are the words ‘Æthelswith Regina’ – Queen Æthelswith in Latin. Anglo-Saxon England in the ninth century
