Ælfthryth, Wife Of Edgar
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Born | Devon |
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United Kingdom | |
Date of died | November 17,1000 |
Died | Wherwell |
United Kingdom | |
1000 AD | |
Wherwell | |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Edgar, King of England |
Parents | Ordgar |
Coronation | 11 May 973 |
Children | Æthelred the Unready |
Edgar (?) | |
Edmund Ætheling | |
Grandchildren | Edmund Ironside |
Edward the Confessor | |
Current partner | Æthelwald, Ealdorman of East Anglia |
Coron | 11 May 973 |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 408109 |
Ælfthryth, Wife Of Edgar 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.