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Female Aeldgyth (Swan Neck) of Mercia (Ealdgyth verch Alfgar, Agatha of England, Eadgyth Swanneshalls) Click to view Aeldgyth (Swan Neck) of Mercia in the family tree

Aeldgyth, known as Swan Neck, was born in 1025 in Wessex, England.1   Swan Neck's father was Earl of Mercia, Earl of East Anglia Aelfgar (The Saxon) of Mercia III and her mother was Aelfgifu Saxe-Wessex.  Her paternal grandparents were Leofric (The Great) Mercia III and Godgifu of Coventry; her maternal grandparents were King Ethelred (The Unready) of England II and Eadgyth. She had three brothers and a sister, named Aedwine, Morcar, Burgheard and Lucy. She had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Aeldred, Ealdulf and Ealdgyth.  She died at the age of 61 in 1086.2 

Family Details of Swan Neck's family with Gruffudd ap Llewellen

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=andwai&id=I21728&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tjglad&id=I64887&style=TABLE
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I47528&style=TABLE

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