Ealhswith

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 5 December 902.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Costambeys.

Place of Burial: New Minster, Winchester.

The place is given by Costambeys.

Relationships

Father: Æthelred Mucil, ealdorman of the “Gaini”.

This relationship is given by Costambeys.

Mother: Eadburh. Said by Asser to be of royal Mercian origin.

This relationship is given by Costambeys.

Spouse: Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons (848/9-899).

Children:

(Complete source citations for the children on this page are currently outside the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography articles and Baldwin.)

Æthelflæd (died 12 June 918), ruler of the Mercians, married Æthelred.

Edward the Elder (died 17 July 924), king of the Anglo-Saxons, married (1) Ecgwynn; married (2) Æelfflæd; married (3) Eadgifu.

Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftsbury.

Ælfthryth married Baldwin II, count of Flanders.

Æthelweard (died 16 October 922).

other children died young.

References

Asser. Life of King Alfred (William Henry Stevenson ed.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Ealhswith” in The Henry Project. [accessed 8 June 2014]

“Ealswith 1” on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England website. [accessed 9 June 2014]

Costambeys, Marios. “Ealhswith (d. 902)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Miller, Sean. “Edward [Edward the Elder] (870s?-924)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Plummer, Charles (ed.) Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: A Revised Text (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-1899).

van Houts, Elisabeth. “Ælfthryth (d. 929)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Wormald, Patrick. “Alfred (848/8-899)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).