Person:Elfleda De Mercia (2)
Elfleda De Mercia
b.Abt 820
d.880 Mercia,,,England
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Elfleda De MerciaAbt 820 - 880
Spouse and Children
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m. 825
  1. Ethelred Eaid _____825 -
  2. _____ Ceolwulf, II - Bef 883
  3. Wigstan _____ - 849
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Facts and Events
Name Elfleda De Mercia
Alt Name // Elfleda, Princess of Mercia
Alt Name Elfleda, _____
Alt Name Elfleda de Mercia
Alt Name Elflega (Elfleda) of Mercia
Gender Female
Alt Birth? 792 Mercia,,,England
Alt Birth? 800 Mercia, England
Birth? Abt 820
Alt Marriage 821 Mercia, Heptarchy, Englandto Wigmund of Mercia
Marriage 825 ,,Herefordshire,Englandto Wigmund of Mercia
Other  Speculative child?: Eadburh Fadburn (5) 
with Wigmund of Mercia
Death? 880 Mercia,,,England
Reference Number? Q7716165?


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Ælfflæd or Æthelflæd (fl. 840) is not recorded before the twelfth century. William of Malmesbury describes Æthelflæd as the daughter of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia, wife of King Wiglaf's son Wigmund, and mother of Wigstan.

According to Thomas of Marlborough's hagiographical life of Wigstan, when his father King Wigmund died in 840, Wigstan refused to become king, preferring a life of religion. His relative Beorhtwulf then asked for permission to marry the widowed queen, Æfflæd, and when Wigstan refused, he had him murdered. John of Worcester has a different version of Wigstan's parentage and death, which he dates to 849. Wigstan was regarded as a saint, like many other Anglo-Saxon royals murdered for political reasons.

She was the heir of her father and his brother Coenwulf, and, by the middle of the century, she was probably abbess of Winchcombe, as she was disposing of its property. She died after 850, and may have been the mother of King Ceolwulf II and Eadburh, wife of Æthelred Mucel.

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References
  1.   Æflæd (?), in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
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