• General Notes

  [Johnson.FTW]
  
  [1144734.FTW]
  
  Alias:<ALIA> Ealhswith of the Gaini /of Mercia/
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Interred: Winchester Cathedral, England@@S005967@@Date of Import: Nov 1, 1998
  Custom Field :<_FA#> Foundress of a monastery of nuns at Winchester.@@S005967@@Date of Import: Nov 1, 1998
  REFN: 4002
  [G675.ged]
  Searle has:  "Ealhswith d. of Aethelred M ucel 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 Searl e, *Anglo-Saxon
  Bishops, Kings and Nobles*,
  Cambridge, 1899, p 343
  --- Flor ence of Worcester (died c 1117), *A History of the Kings of
  England* (OR: *Th e Chronicle of Florence of Worcester*), trans Joseph
  Stephenson, 1853
  (repri nted by Llanerch Enterprises, Felinfach, Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales
  SA48 8PJ, 198 0s (?)), p 72:
  "Queen Ealhsuith, mother of King Eadward, a devout handmaid of Christ,
  and foundress of a monastery of nuns at Winchester, departed this lif e."

Details of Ealhswith of Mercia's family with Alfred the Great King of Wessex