Ælfthryth ( ang, Ælfðryð, fl. AD 810s) was the wife of the Mercian King Coenwulf, and had his two children,

Cynehelm Saint Kenelm (or Cynehelm) was an Anglo-Saxon saint, venerated throughout medieval England, and mentioned in the ''Canterbury Tales'' (The Nun's Priest's Tale, lines 290–301, in which the cockerel Chauntecleer tries to demonstrate the reality o ...

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Cwoenthryth Cwenthryth (also Quendreda, ang, Cwēnþrȳð) was a princess of Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in central England, who lived in the early 9th century. She was the daughter of Coenwulf of Mercia and the sister of Saint Kenelm and also the siste ...

. 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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