Ealdgyth, daughter of Ælfgar

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Ælfgar, earl of Mercia.

This relationship is given by Maund and by van Houts (p. 262). It is recorded in the Gesta Normannorum Ducum (VII.13(31)).

(probable) Mother: Ælgifu.

This relationship is given by Maund (ODNB) and by van Houts (p. 262).

Spouse: Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (died 1063). Married about 1057.

This relationship is given by Maund (ODNB) and Walker (ODNB). It is recorded in the Gesta Normannorum Ducum (VII.13(31)). Ealdgyth brought an estate at Binley, Warwickshire, to Gruffudd. The estate later passed through the hands of her son-in-law Osbern fitz Richard. (Maund ODNB).

Spouse: Harold Godwineson, king of England (killed in battle at Hastings, 14 October 1066).

This relationship is given by Maund (ODNB) and van Houts (p. 262). It is recorded in the Gesta Normannorum Ducum (VII.13(31)).

Children (by Gruffudd): .

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Nest married Osbern fitz Richard.

(possible) Children (by Harold):

Harold (December 1066 - after 1098). Maund (ODND) states, “It seems likely that her marriage to Harold was childless, although it is not impossible that she was the mother of his son Harold.”

References

“Ealdgyth 2” on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England website.

The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni (Elisabeth M.C. Van Houts, ed. and trans.) (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1995)

Maund, K.L. “Ealdgyth (fl. c.1057-1066)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England” in Normandy and Its Neighbours, 900-1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011), pp. 237-270.

Walker, David “Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (d. 1063)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).