St. Ealhswith^{[1, 2, 3]}

848 - 902  (~ 54 years)

• Name	Ealhswith
  Title	St.
  Born	ca. 848	Mercia
  Gender	Female
  Died	ca. 902	Winchester, Hampshire, England
  	5 Dec [2]
  Buried	Winchester, Hampshire, England   [4]
  Person ID	I11256	Dickinson
  Last Modified	31 Jul 2020

  
  

  Father	Æthelred Mucel,   d. ca. 885
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Eadburga of Mercia
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F6423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ælfred of Wessex,   b. 849, Wantage, Berkshire, England ,   d. ca. 26 Oct 899  (Age 50 years)
  Married	868
  	"In the year of our Lord's incarnation 868, which was the twentieth of King Alfred's life, the aforesaid revered King Alfred, then occupying only the rank of viceroy (secundarii), betrothed and espoused a noble Mercian lady, daughter of Æthelred, surnamed Mucin, Ealdorman of the Gaini. The mother of this lady was named Eadburh, of the royal line of Mercia, whom I often saw with my own eyes a few years before her death. She was a venerable lady, and after the decease of her husband remained many years a chaste widow, even till her own death." [5]
  Children	+ 1. Æthelflæd of Wessex,   b. ca. 870,   d. 12 Jun 918, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England  (Age ~ 48 years)  [Birth] + 2. Eadweard of Wessex and Mercia,   b. Abt 872,   d. 17 Jul 924, Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire  (Age ~ 52 years)  [Birth] + 3. Ælfthryth of Wessex,   b. Abt 877,   d. 7 Jun 929  (Age ~ 52 years)  [Birth]   4. Æthelgifu of Wessex, Abbess of Shaftsbury,   d. ca. 896, Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset  [Birth] + 5. Æthelweard of Wessex,   b. ca. 880,   d. 16 Oct 922  (Age ~ 42 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	31 Jul 2020
  Family ID	F2432	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Died - ca. 902 - Winchester, Hampshire, England Buried - - Winchester, Hampshire, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Histories

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• Sources

  [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), https://bit.ly/3ggulWX. [S431] The Henry Project: The ancestors of king Henry II of England: An experiment in cooperative medieval genealogy on the internet, Stewart Baldwin and Todd Farmerie (editors), (Online: sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/henry.htm), http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/ealhs000.htm, 17 Jan 2018. [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), "Ealhswith" at https://bit.ly/2PaxuvB. [S439] Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages, Ed West, (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017), 106. [S441] Asser's Life of King Alfred, Albert S. Cook, William Henry Stevenson, ed., (Boston: Ginn & Co., 1906 ), 17 or https://archive.org/stream/asserslifeofking00asseiala#page/16/mode/2up.