Eadgyth

Events

Date of Birth: about 911.

Place of Birth: Wessex.

The estimated date is given by Stafford.

Date of Death: 26 January 946.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Stafford.

Place of Burial: Magdeburg Cathedral.

The place is given by Stafford.

Relationships

Father: Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons.

This relationship is given by Stafford and by Gluck (pp. 19-20).

Mother: Ælfflæd, daughter of ealdorman Æthelhelm.

This relationship is given by Stafford.

Spouse: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

This relationship is given by Althoff, by Gluck (pp. 18-20), and by Stafford.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin and from Gluck.)

Liudolf (about 930 - 6 September 957), duke of Swabia, married Ida von Schwaben.

Liutgard (about 931 - 18 November 953) married Konrad “der Rote”, duke in Lotharingia.

References

Althoff, Gerd. “Otto I. der Große”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 19 (1998), S. 656-660 [Onlinefassung].

Baldwin, Stewart. “Eadweard (Edward) "the Elder"” in The Henry Project. (2010)

Baldwin, Stewart. “Otto I the Great” in The Henry Project. (2011)

“Eadgyth 2 (Female)” on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England website. [accessed 20 July 2014]

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

MacLean, Simon. Ottonian Queenship. (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Stafford, Pauline. “Eadgyth (c.911-946)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press: September 2011).