Ælfflæd (Elfreda)

See also

Ælfflæd 's parents: Æthelhelm OF MEOPHAM ( - ) and Elswitha ( - )

Ælfflæd (Elfreda) ( -920)

Name:	Ælfflæd (Elfreda) ¹
Sex:	Female
Father:	Æthelhelm OF MEOPHAM ( - )
Mother:	Elswitha ( - )

Individual Events and Attributes

Death	0920
Burial		Winchester Cathedral

Marriage


Edward the Elder	Eadgifu (Ogiva) of England	Eadgifu (Ogiva) of England	A statue in the Cathedral of Magdeburg that is often assumed to represent Otto and Edith.

Spouse	Edward I "The Elder" OF ENGLAND (871?-925)
Children	Ogiva OF ENGLAND (902-953?)
	Edith (Eadgyth) OF ENGLAND ( -947)

Individual Note

Ælfflæd (fl. 10th century) was the second wife of Edward the Elder, king of the English.

Ælfflæd was the daughter of Æthelhelm, ealdorman of Wiltshire. She married king Edward, c. 901 and became the mother of two sons, Ælfweard of Wessex and Edwin, and six daughters.[1]

Sons

Ælfweard (ruled one month in 924)

Edwin (d. 933)

Daughters

Eadgifu, wife of Charles the Simple

Eadhild, wife of Duke Hugh the Great

Eadgyth, wife of Otto I

Ælfgifu, wife of a continental nobleman (Adiva)

Eadflæd, nun

Eadhild or Æthelhild, religious woman

NOTES:

1 "Edward the Elder". Anglo-Saxons.net. http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder. Retrieved 2009-04-18.²

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 52, 45-16.

²	"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lffl%C3%A6d,_wife_of_Edward_the_Elder.