Ælfthryth ( ang, Ælfðryð,
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
AD 810s) was the wife of the Mercian King
Coenwulf
Coenwulf (; also spelled Cenwulf, Kenulf, or Kenwulph; la, Coenulfus) was the King of Mercia from December 796 until his death in 821. He was a descendant of King Pybba, who ruled Mercia in the early 7th century. He succeeded Ecgfrith, the son ...
, and had his two children,
Cynehelm and
Cwoenthryth.
Ælfthryth is established as Coenwulf's wife from charter evidence, being recorded on charters dated between 804 and 817.
[Ælfthryth 3, PASE.] It is possible that Ælfthryth was Coenwulf's second wife as a charter of 799 records a different wife of Coenwulf. Although the charter is forged, this detail is possibly accurate.
[Pauline Stafford, "Political Womena", in Brown & Farr, ''Mercia'', p. 42, n. 5.]
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