Ælfthryth

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 999 and 1001.

Place of Death: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Stafford.

Relationships

Father: Ordgar (died 971), ealdorman of Devon.

This relationship is given by Stafford. It is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle s.a. 965 (D,F), and by Byrhtferth of Ramsey in his Life of St Oswald iii.14, and in other sources.

Mother: unknown.

Stafford notes that she was of royal descent. Baldwin notes she was buried at Tavistock.

Spouse: Æthelwold (died 962), ealdorman of East Anglia.

This relationship is given by Stafford.

Spouse: Edgar, king of the English (died 975).

This relationship is given by Stafford.

Children (by Edgar):

Edmund (about 966 - 971).

Æthelred II “the Unready” (about 968 - 23 April 1016), king of England. Married (1) Ælfgifu; married (2) Emma in 1002.

References

“Ælfthryth 8” on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England website. [accessed 9 June 2014]

Anglo-Saxons.net [Gives transcriptions of Old English charters]

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

Keynes, Simon. “Æthelred II (c.966x8-1016)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Lewis, C.P. “Ordgar (d. 971)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

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

Raine, James (ed.) The Historians of the Church of York and Its Archbishops. Volume I (London: 1879). pp. 399-475: “Vita Oswaldi Archiepiscopi Eboracensis”.

Stafford, Pauline. “Ælfthryth (d. 999x1001)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Williams, Ann. “Edgar (943/4-975)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).