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m. 967 - Ælfgifu _____, of YorkAbt 968 - 1002
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Baldwin notes that different sources give different fathers in law for Æthelred II (prior to his marriage with Emma of Normandy). It is not clear whether this implies that he was married twice before he was married to Emma, or that the sources are disagreeing about his first wife's ancestry.
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Ælfgifu of York (fl. c. 970 – 1002) was the first wife of Æthelred the Unready, King of the English; as such, she was Queen of the English from their marriage in the 980s until her death in 1002. They had many children together, including Edmund Ironside. It is most probable that Ælfgifu was a daughter of Thored, Earl of southern Northumbria.
References
- David Williamson, (i)The National Portrait Gallery History of The Kings & Queens of England(/i) (Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 2000( qu
pg 19. - Ælfgifu of York, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners: The Complete Lineage of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward III, Kings of England, and Queen Philippa (.: ., 3rd Ed., 1998), 342-35. Hereinafter cited as RfC.
- With additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and assisted by David Faris Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 1-19. Hereinafter cited as Weis: AR 7th ed.. .
- Peter Townend, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, One Hundred and Fifth Edition (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, MCMLXX (1970)), pg. l. Hereinafter cited as B:P, 105th.
- Translated and edited by Michael Swanton, editor, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (5 Upper Saint Martins Lane, London: Phoenix Press, 2000, New Edition), pg. 288. Hereinafter cited as ASC.
- K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occuring in English Documents, 1066-1166, Volume II. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Boydell Press, 2002), pg. 1101. Hereinafter cited as Domesday Descendants.
- C. W. Previté-Orton The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 1, the Later Roman Empire to the Twelfth Century, 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), pg. 382. Hereinafter cited as sCMH I.
- Alfred P. Smyth and D. P. Kirby Ann Williams, A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland and Wales, c. 500-c. 1050 (London: Seaby, 1991), p.7. Hereinafter cited as Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain.
- ÆLFGIVA, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
- Ælfgifu (?), in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.
- Thorpe, Benjamin. Florentii Wigorniensis. (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1848)
p. 275.
Gives the father of Ælfgifu as Ælgelberht.
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