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Æthelflæd (name)
Æthelflæd is an Anglo-Saxon female name meaning "noble beauty". Notable people with the name include: * Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, daughter of Alfred the Great * Æthelflæd of Damerham, queen of England, second wife of King Edmund and mother of Edward II * Æthelflæd ''Eneda'', first wife of King Edgar and mother of Edward the Martyr * Abbess Ælflæda of Romsey (Ethelflaeda), saint and daughter of Edward the Elder * Abbess Æthelflæda of Romsey Saint Æthelflæda of Romsey (born c. 962) was an early Abbess of Romsey Abbey in the reign of Edgar, King of England, King Edgar. Her identity is obscure, though in later stories she was said to be the daughter of a tenth-century nobleman. She has ..., 11th century abbess {{DEFAULTSORT:Aethelflaed Old English given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Saxons happened within Britain, and the identity was not merely imported. Anglo-Saxon identity arose from interaction between incoming groups from several Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes, both amongst themselves, and with Celtic Britons, indigenous Britons. Many of the natives, over time, adopted Anglo-Saxon culture and language and were assimilated. The Anglo-Saxons established the concept, and the Kingdom of England, Kingdom, of England, and though the modern English language owes somewhat less than 26% of its words to their language, this includes the vast majority of words used in everyday speech. Historically, the Anglo-Saxon period denotes the period in Britain between about 450 and 1066, after Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelflæd
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians ( 870 – 12 June 918) ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith. Æthelflæd was born around 870 at the height of the Viking invasions of England. By 878, most of England was under Danish Viking rule – East Anglia and Northumbria having been conquered, and Mercia partitioned between the English and the Vikings – but in that year Alfred won a crucial victory at the Battle of Edington. Soon afterwards the English-controlled western half of Mercia came under the rule of Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, who accepted Alfred's overlordship. Alfred adopted the title King of the Anglo-Saxons (previously he was titled King of the West Saxons like his predecessors) claiming to rule all Anglo-Saxon people not living in areas under Viking control. In the mid-880s, Alfred sealed the strategic alliance between the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelflæd Of Damerham
Æthelflæd of Damerham was Queen of the English as the second wife of King Edmund I from their marriage 944 until Edmund died in 946. Æthelflæd was a daughter of ealdorman Ælfgar, probably the ealdorman of Essex. Her mother's name is not recorded. She had at least one brother and at least one sister, Ælfflæd (died ). Ælfflæd was married to Byrhtnoth, who probably succeeded her father as ealdorman of Essex. Byrhtnoth was killed at the Battle of Maldon in 991. Æthelflæd and Ælfflæd were Ælfgar's heirs at his death, some time between 946 and 951 based on the dating of his willS1483 Æthelflæd married Edmund following the death in 944 of his first wife Ælfgifu, mother of the future kings Eadwig and Edgar. She and Edmund are not known to have had any children, and Edmund was killed in 946, leaving Æthelflæd as a wealthy widow. Records of Ely Cathedral, to which she, her sister, and her brother-in-law, were generous benefactors, say that she then married ealdorman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelflæd Eneda
Æthelflæd Eneda ('the White Duck'; died in the 960s) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who was the first wife of Edgar the Peaceable and the mother of Edward the Martyr. Life Sources She is attested by Eadmer's ''Life of St Dunstan'', which says that Æthelflæd Eneda, daughter of Ordmær, ealdorman (''dux'') of the East Angles, became the lawful wife (''coniunx legitima'') of Edgar while he was king of the Mercians (between 957 and 959), and died 'a few years later'. This is echoed by the twelfth-century chronicle of John of Worcester, which reads: 'He dgarhad previously also had, by Æthelflæd the Fair, called Eneda (the daughter of the ealdorman, Ordmær), Edward, afterwards king and martyr…' The genealogical trees preceding the chronicle call Edgar's first wife 'Eneda, ''femina generosissima''' ('a woman most nobly born'). A twelfth-century benefactor's list of the New Minster, Winchester, names Æthelflæd as the wife of Edgar. She gave land at Lingfield and Sanderst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward The Martyr
Edward ( ang, Eadweard, ; 18 March 978), often called the Martyr, was King of the English from 975 until he was murdered in 978. Edward was the eldest son of King Edgar, but was not his father's acknowledged heir. On Edgar's death, the leadership of England was contested, with some supporting Edward's claim to be king and others supporting his younger half-brother Æthelred the Unready, recognised as a legitimate son of Edgar. Edward was chosen as king and was crowned by his main clerical supporters, the archbishops Dunstan of Canterbury and Oswald of York. The great nobles of the kingdom, ealdormen Ælfhere and Æthelwine, quarrelled, and civil war almost broke out. In the so-called anti-monastic reaction, the nobles took advantage of Edward's weakness to dispossess the Benedictine reformed monasteries of lands and other properties that King Edgar had granted to them. Edward's short reign was brought to an end by his murder at Corfe Castle in 978 in circumstances that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward The Elder
Edward the Elder (17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924. He was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his wife Ealhswith. When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin Æthelwold, who had a strong claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred I. Alfred had succeeded Æthelred as king of Wessex in 871, and almost faced defeat against the Danish Vikings until his decisive victory at the Battle of Edington in 878. After the battle, the Vikings still ruled Northumbria, East Anglia and eastern Mercia, leaving only Wessex and western Mercia under Anglo-Saxon control. In the early 880s Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, the ruler of western Mercia, accepted Alfred's lordship and married his daughter Æthelflæd, and around 886 Alfred adopted the new title King of the Anglo-Saxons as the ruler of all Anglo-Saxons not subject to Danish rule. Edward inherited the new title when Alf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelflæda Of Romsey
Saint Æthelflæda of Romsey (born c. 962) was an early Abbess of Romsey Abbey in the reign of Edgar, King of England, King Edgar. Her identity is obscure, though in later stories she was said to be the daughter of a tenth-century nobleman. She has been distinguished from Ælflæda, daughter of Edward the Elder, who was herself connected with the founding of the Abbey. Life Æthelflæda appears in a small number of eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic calendars. A 14th-century life of her, amongst a collection of saints lives once belonging to Romsey Abbey, is held in the British Library's Lansdowne manuscripts, MS Lansdowne 436, fols. 43v-45v. According to that account Æthelflæda was the youngest daughter of Ethelwold (died 962), a noble of Edgar, King of England, King Edgar, and either Ethelwold's first wife, Brithwina, or his second, Elfrida. After her father's death, Edgar sent Æthelflæda to be educated by Saint Merwinna at Romsey. Several miracles were ascribed to Æthel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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