• General Notes

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  PED OF VERN ORVEL CURTIS,1934
  
  TITL Royal Genealogies DB                    AUTH Denis R. Reid
  PUBL 149 Kimrose Lane, Broadview Heights, OH 44147-1258    216/237-5364
  http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html ah189@@cleveland.freenet.edu       MEDI Electr onic
  TEXT d 905
  TITL PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar      PUBL WWW     webmaster@@PrenticeNet.com
  http://www.prenticenet.com/roots/surnames/ancient/2caesar.htm
  MEDI Electronic
  TEXT Ethelwitha dau. of Ethelred, no mother
  TITL Stemmata Illustria      PUBL 1825
  MEDI Book
  TEXT Ethelwitha dau. of Ethelred, no mother
  TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760
  AUTH Frederick Lewis Weis                PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992
  Same ref source as earlier ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623- 1650" ed 1-6
  good to very good ----- J.H. Garner
  MEDI Book        PAGE line 1 pp 1-4
  ALIA Ealhswith of the Gaini /of Mercia/
  TEXT d ca 905, no place
  _FA1  PLAC Became a nun at widowhood. Reputed as a saint after death.
  _FA2  PLAC Interred: Winchester Cathedral, England
  _FA3  PLAC Foundress of a monastery of nuns at Winchester.Searle has:  "Ealhswith d. of Aethe lred Mucel eald. of the Gaini and of Eadburh of the royal family of Mercia, sister of eald. A thulf (d. 903); d. a. 905 ... Dec 5 ... "  --- William George Searle, *Anglo-Saxon Bishops, K ings and Nobles*,  Cambridge, 1899, p 343
  --- Florence of Worcester (died c 1117), *A History of the Kings of England* (OR: *The Chroni cle of Florence of Worcester*), trans Joseph Stephenson, 1853 (reprinted by Llanerch Enterpri ses, Felinfach, Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales SA48 8PJ, 1980s (?)), p 72:  "Queen Ealhsuith, mothe r of King Eadward, a devout handmaid of Christ, and foundress of a monastery of nuns at Winch ester, departed this life."

Details of Ethelwitha of Mercia's family with The Great Alfred