Ælfthryth
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Born | Devon |
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United Kingdom | |
Died | Wherwell |
United Kingdom | |
1000 AD | |
Wherwell | |
United Kingdom | |
Parents | Ordgar |
Coron | 11 May 973 |
Children | Æthelred the Unready |
Edgar (?) | |
Grandchildren | Edward the Confessor |
Edmund Ironside | |
Spouse | Edgar, King of England |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 3309308 |
Ælfthryth Life story
Ælfthryth was Queen of the English from her marriage to King Edgar in 964 or 965 until Edgar's death in 975. Ælfthryth was the first wife of an English king known to have been crowned and anointed as queen. She had two sons with Edgar, the ætheling Edmund and King Æthelred the Unready.