Ethelwida (Elfrida) of Wessex 
Ethelwida (Elfrida) was born in 0868 in Wessex, England.1 Ethelwida (Elfrida)'s father was Alfred the Great King of England and her mother was Ealhswith of the Gaini of Mercia. Her paternal grandparents were AEthelwulf King of England and Osburga of the Isle of Wight; her maternal grandparents were AEthelred Mucil Ealdorman of the Gainas and Eadburga of Mercia. She had a brother and a sister, named Edward the Elder and AEthelflaeda. She was the oldest of the three children.1 General Notes
[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
AELFTHRYTH Princess of England was born about 868 in Wessex,
England. She died in 920. OR: ELFRIDA. In Giles' trans of
William of Malmesbury's
*Chronicles*, she is given as ETHELSWITHA: "He [Alfred] gave
his daughter
Ethelswitha in marriage to Baldwin earl of Flanders, by whom he
had Arnulf
and Ethelwulf."
--- William of Malmesbury, *Chronicle of the Kings of
England*, c 1135,
tr John Allen Giles, London (Henry G Bohn) 1847, p 121
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0732 in of Wessex, England
- b.0758 in of Wessex, England d.0788
- b.0775 in Wessex, England d.19 NOV 839 in Wessex, England
- d.0762
- b.0762
- b.0806 in Wessex, England d.13 JAN 857/58 in England
- b.0788
- b.0848 in Wantage, Berkshire, England d.26 OCT 899 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.0785
- b.0810 d.> 0853
- b.0868 in Wessex, England d.7 JUN 929
- d.~ 0840
- b.0825 in of Mercia, England d.0866
- b.0852 in Mercia, England d.5 DEC 905 in St. Mary's Abbey, Winchester, Dorset
- d.0840
- b.0830
- d.0823
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Details of Ethelwida (Elfrida)'s family with Baudouin II the Bald Ct of Flanders
1 SUSANNA KEENE.FTW
Further sources/citations:
Royal Genealogies DB @ Elfrida, usenet newsgroup soc.genealogy.medieval, Listserve: usenet @ Stein N. Wisted snw@@sorco.no, Aelfthryth, d of Alfred, no
mother, PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar, Url: @ Estrude of England, d of Alfred the Great & Ethelwitha dau. of
Ethelred, Stemmata Illustria @ Estrude of England, d of Alfred the Great & Ethelwitha dau. of
Ethelred, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to @ line 44 p 46, Fighting Kings of Wessex @ p 190, Aelswitha
Further sources/citations:
Royal Genealogies DB @ Elfrida, usenet newsgroup soc.genealogy.medieval, Listserve: usenet @ Stein N. Wisted snw@@sorco.no, Aelfthryth, d of Alfred, no
mother, PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar, Url: @ Estrude of England, d of Alfred the Great & Ethelwitha dau. of
Ethelred, Stemmata Illustria @ Estrude of England, d of Alfred the Great & Ethelwitha dau. of
Ethelred, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to @ line 44 p 46, Fighting Kings of Wessex @ p 190, Aelswitha
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