1564109 - of the Gaini, Ealhswith of Mercia

Events

Event	Date	Place	Sources
Birth [E36917]	852	Mercia, England	5b 6b 7b 8b
Death [E36918]	905-12-05	St. Mary’s Abbey, Winchester, Dorset	1a 4b 5c 7c 8c
_FA1 [E36919]		Became a nun at widowhood. Reputed as a saint after death.	5d 7d 8d
_FA2 [E36920]		Interred: Winchester Cathedral, England	5e 7e 8e
_FA3 [E36921]		Foundress of a monastery of nuns at Winchester.	5f 7f 8f

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Ealdorman of Mercia, AEthelred Mucil [I28628]	825	866
Mother	of Mercia, Eadburga [I28545]	830
	of the Gaini, Ealhswith of Mercia [I28580]	852	905-12-05

Families

Family of King of England, Alfred the Great and of the Gaini, Ealhswith of Mercia [F11060]

Married

Husband

King of England, Alfred the Great [I18388] ( * 848 + 899-10-26 )

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Marriage [E58287]	868	Winchester, England			1b 2b 3b 9a 4c 5g 7g 8g 10a
Marriage [E58288]	868	Winchester, Dorset, England			6c

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
of Wessex, Elfthryth [I28584]	868	929-06-07
Lady of Mercia, Ethelflaed [I28583]	869	919-06-12
King of England, Edward the Elder [I18370]	871	925-07-17

Narrative

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Searle has: "Ealhswith d. of Aethelred Mucel eald. of the Gaini and of Eadburh of the royal family of Mercia, sister of eald. Athulf (d. 903); d. a. 905 ... Dec 5 ... " --- William George Searle, *Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles*,
Cambridge, 1899, p 343

--- Florence of Worcester (died c 1117), *A History of the Kings of England* (OR: *The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester*), trans Joseph Stephenson, 1853
(reprinted by Llanerch Enterprises, Felinfach, Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales SA48 8PJ, 1980s (?)), p 72:
"Queen Ealhsuith, mother of King Eadward, a devout handmaid of Christ, and foundress of a monastery of nuns at Winchester, departed this life."

Pedigree

Ealdorman of Mercia, AEthelred Mucil [I28628]
1. of Mercia, Eadburga [I28545]
  1. of the Gaini, Ealhswith of Mercia
    1. King of England, Alfred the Great [I18388]

Ancestors

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

Ealdorman of Mercia, AEthelred Mucil
* 825
+ 866

Mucel
*
+ about 840

Esne
*
+ ...

of Mercia, Eadburga
* 830
+ ...

of Mercia, Wigmund
*
+ ...

King of Mercia, Wiglaf of Mercia
*
+ 840

of Mercia, Elfleda
*
+ ...

King of Mercia, Ceolwulf I of Mercia
*
+ 823

Source References

Denis R. Reid: Royal Genealogies DB [S284656]
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PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar [S284928]
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    Ethelwitha dau. of Ethelred, no mother
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Stemmata Illustria [S284205]
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    Ethelwitha dau. of Ethelred, no mother
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Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 [S286879]
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G.P. Baker: Fighting Kings of Wessex [S287682]
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Birth Name	of the Gaini, Ealhswith of Mercia 1 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a
Also Known As	of Mercia, Ealhswith of the Gaini
Gramps ID	I28580
Gender	female
Age at Death	53 years, 11 months, 4 days