Ælfthryth (,

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for '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 indic ...

AD 810s) was the wife of the Mercian King

Coenwulf Coenwulf (; also spelled Cenwulf, Kenulf, or Kenwulph; ) 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 of Offa; Ecg ...

, and had his two children,

Cynehelm Saint Kenelm (or Cynehelm) was an Anglo-Saxons, 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 ...

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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