Person:Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury (1)
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
b.912 Wessex, England
d.18 May abt 944
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  1. Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury912 - Abt 944
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m. Abt 940
  1. Eadwig of EnglandAbt 940 - 959
  2. Edgar the Peaceful _____, King of Wessex, Mercia & England IAbt 943 - 975
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Name[1] Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
Alt Name Saint Ælfgifu _____
Alt Name[1] Saint Elgiva _____
Gender Female
Birth? 912 Wessex, EnglandCitation needed
Marriage Abt 940 Not initially married
to Edmund I _____, King of the English
Alt Marriage Bef 943 Englandto Edmund I _____, King of the English
Death[1][4] 18 May abt 944
Burial[4][6] Shaftesbury, Dorset, England
Reference Number? Q2278338?
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Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury (died 944) was the first wife of King Edmund I (r. 939–946). She was Queen of the English from her marriage in around 939 until her death in 944. Ælfgifu and Edmund were the parents of two future English kings, Eadwig (r. 955–959) and Edgar the Peaceful (r. 959–975). Like her mother Wynflaed, Ælfgifu had a close and special if unknown connection with the royal nunnery of Shaftesbury (Dorset), founded by King Alfred, where she was buried and soon revered as a saint. According to a pre-Conquest tradition from Winchester, her feast day is 18 May.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Mike Ashley, (i)British Kings & Queens: A Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Great Britain(/i) (New York, NY: Barnes.
  3.   Ælfgifu (?), in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 St. Ælfgifu, in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.
  5.   Birch, Walter de Gray. Cartularium Saxonicum: a collection of charters relating to Anglo-Saxon history. . (London: Whiting & Company Ltd., 1885)
    2:517.

    This charter from A.D. 942 x 946 has in the list of witnesses "Ego Ælfgifu concubina regis affui."

  6. ↑ Ethelwerd's Chronicle Book 4, Chapter 6, in Giles, J.A. (ed.). Old English Chronicles. (London: George Bell and Sons, 1906)
    p. 40.
  7.   Ælfgifu 3 (Female), in The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
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