Also known as Ælgifu.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 6 or 7 March 1052.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Baldwin.
Relationships
Father: Richard I “Sans Peur”.
This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Keynes (ODNB).
Mother: Gunnor.
This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Green (p. 46).
Spouse: Æthelred II “the Unready”, king of England. Married 1002.
This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Keynes (ODNB).
Spouse: Canute, king of England, Denmark, and Norway. Married in 1017.
This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Keynes (ODNB).
Children (by Æthelred):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Edward “the Confessor” (died January 1066), king of England, married Eadgyth, daughter of Godwine, earl of Wessex.
Ælfred (died 5 February 1036/7).
Gode married (1) Dreux, count of Mantes; married (2) Eustace II, count of Boulogne.
Children (by Canute):
Harthacnut (about 1018 - 8 June, 1042), king of Denmark, king of England.
Gunhilda (about 1020 - 18 July 1038) married Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor.
References
Baldwin, Stewart. “Æthelred II "the Unready"” in The Henry Project. [accessed 5 October 2014]
“Emma 2” on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England website. [accessed 5 October 2014]
Green, Judith A.. “Duchesses of Normandy” in Normandy and Its Neighbours: 900 to 1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011) pp. 43-49.
Keynes, Simon. “Æthelred II (c.966x8 - 1016)” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press: 2004).
Tanner, Heather J. “Eustace (II), count of Boulogne (d.c. 1087) in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press: 2004).