Eadgifu OF KENT

See also

Eadgifu OF KENT's father: Sigehelm OF KENT ( -903)

Eadgifu OF KENT (bef905-968)


	Eadgifu (Ediva) of Kent		Eadgifu (Ediva) of Kent

Name:	Eadgifu OF KENT ¹
Sex:	Female
Father:	Sigehelm OF KENT ( -903)
Mother:	-

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	bef 0905
Occupation	frm 0919 to 0924 (age 13-19)	Queen Consort of England
Death	25 Aug 0968 (age 62-63)
Burial		Canterbury Cathedral

Marriage


	Edward the Elder

Spouse	Edward I "The Elder" OF ENGLAND (871?-925)
Children	Edmund I OF ENGLAND (921-946)
Marriage	0919 (age 13-14)

Individual Note

Eadgifu of Kent (also Edgiva or Ediva) (died August 25, 968) was the third wife of Edward the Elder, King of England.

Eadgifu was the daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent (died 903). She became the mother of two sons, Edmund I of England, later King Edmund I, and Eadred of England, later King Eadred, and a daughter, Saint Eadburh of Winchester. Eadgifu survived Edward by many years, dying in the reign of her grandson Edgar. As queen dowager, her position seem to have been higher than that of her daughter-in-law; In a Kentish charter datable between 942 and 944, her daughter-in-law Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury subscribes herself as the king's concubine (concubina regis), with a place assigned to her between the bishops and ealdormen. By comparison, Eadgifu subscribes higher up in the witness list as mater regis, after her sons Edmund and Eadred but before the archbishops and bishops.[1]

NOTES:

1 S 514 (AD 942 x 946).

SOURCE:

House of Wessex family tree²

Sources

¹	Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 1, 1-15.

²	"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadgifu_of_Kent.