1564109 - of Wessex, Elfthryth

Events

Event	Date	Place	Sources
Birth [E36933]	868	Wessex, England	6b 7b 8b
Death [E36934]	929-06-07		3b 4b 5b 6c 7c 8c
_FA1 [E36935]		Name also rendered “Ethelwida” or “Elfrida”.	6d 7d 8d

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	King of England, Alfred the Great [I18388]	848	899-10-26
Mother	of the Gaini, Ealhswith of Mercia [I28580]	852	905-12-05
	of Wessex, Elfthryth [I28584]	868	929-06-07
Sister	Lady of Mercia, Ethelflaed [I28583]	869	919-06-12
Brother	King of England, Edward the Elder [I18370]	871	925-07-17

Families

Family of Ct de Flanders, Baudouin II the Bald and of Wessex, Elfthryth [F11031]

Married

Husband

Ct de Flanders, Baudouin II the Bald [I28554] ( * 863 + 918-09-10 )

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Marriage [E58259]	after 893				1b 2b 3c 4c 5c 6e 7 8e

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Ct de Flanders, Arnolph I le Grand [I28600]	889	964-03-27

Narrative

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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

Pedigree

King of England, Alfred the Great [I18388]
1. of the Gaini, Ealhswith of Mercia [I28580]

Ancestors

of Wessex, Elfthryth
* 868
+ 929-06-07

King of England, Alfred the Great
* 848
+ 899-10-26

King of Wessex, Aethelwulf
* 806
+ 857/8-01-13 (Julian)

King of Wessex, Egbert
* 775
+ 839-11-19

of Wessex, Redburga
* 788
+ ...

of the Isle of Wright, Osburga
* 810
+ 876

Wright, Oslac of Isle of
*
+ ...

of the Gaini, Ealhswith of Mercia
* 852
+ 905-12-05

Ealdorman of Mercia, AEthelred Mucil
* 825
+ 866

Mucel
*
+ about 840

of Mercia, Eadburga
* 830
+ ...

of Mercia, Wigmund
*
+ ...

of Mercia, Elfleda
*
+ ...

Source References

Denis R. Reid: Royal Genealogies DB [S284656]
1. - Source text:
    Elfrida
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    No date/place
soc.genealogy.medieval [S284263]
1. - Page: Stein N. Wisted snw@@sorco.no
  - Source text:
    Aelfthryth, d of Alfred, no mother
2. - Page: Stein N. Wisted snw@@sorco.no
  - Source text:
    no date/place
PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar [S284928]
1. - Source text:
    Estrude of England, d of Alfred the Great & Ethelwitha dau. of Ethelred
2. - Source text:
    d 929
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    no date/place
Stemmata Illustria [S284205]
1. - Source text:
    Estrude of England, d of Alfred the Great & Ethelwitha dau. of Ethelred
2. - Source text:
    d 929
3. - Source text:
    no date/place
Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 [S286879]
1. - Page: line 44 p 46
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    d 929
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    no date/place
large-G675.FTW [S286834]
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11615-2.ftw [S7587]
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Birth Name	of Wessex, Elfthryth 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a
Also Known As	of Wessex, Ethelwida (Elfrida)
Gramps ID	I28584
Gender	female
Age at Death	61 years, 5 months, 6 days