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Æthlflæd di Damerham (... – 962/975/991) è stata una regina inglese. Fu la seconda moglie di Edmondo I: il loro matrimonio è avvenuto intorno al 944. Biografia. Æthelflæd era figlia di Ælfgar, probabilmente ealdorman dell’Essex. Il nome di sua madre non è registrato. Aveva almeno un fratello e una sorella.
Æthelflæd of Damerham was Queen of the English as the second wife of King Edmund I from their marriage c. 944 until Edmund died in 946. Æthelflæd was a daughter of ealdorman Ælfgar, probably the ealdorman of Essex. Her mother's name is not recorded.
Æthelflæd was the daughter of Ælfgar. Her birth date is uncertain. She was the second wife of King Edmund I. They probably married in about 945 as his first wife died the previous year. She is referred to as Edmund's Queen in the entry for the year 946 in the Worcester Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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- Edmund (Wessex) of England
- Background
- Sources
- Family
- Æthelflæd and Æthelred
- Lady of The Mercians
- Death and Aftermath
- Legacy
- Commemoration
- Notes
- Further Reading
Mercia was the dominant kingdom in southern England in the eighth century and maintained its position until it suffered a decisive defeat by Wessex at the Battle of Ellendunin 825. Thereafter the two kingdoms became allies, which was to be an important factor in English resistance to the Vikings. In 865 the Viking Great Heathen Army landed in East ...
The most important source for history in this period is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle but Æthelflæd is almost ignored in the standard West Saxon version, in what F. T. Wainwright calls "a conspiracy of silence". He argues that King Edward was anxious not to encourage Mercian separatism and did not wish to publicise his sister's accomplishments, in case...
Æthelflæd was born around 870, the oldest child of King Alfred the Great and his Mercian wife, Ealhswith, who was a daughter of Æthelred Mucel, ealdorman of the Gaini, one of the tribes of Mercia.[b] Ealhswith's mother, Eadburh, was a member of the Mercian royal house, probably a descendant of King Coenwulf (796–821). Æthelflæd was thus half-Mercia...
Compared to the rest of England, much of English Mercia —Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire —was unusually stable in the Viking age. It did not suffer major attacks and it did not come under great pressure from Wessex. Mercian scholarship had high prestige at the courts of Alfred and Edward. Worcester was able to preserve...
On her husband's death in 911, Æthelflæd became Myrcna hlædige, "Lady of the Mercians". Ian Walker describes her succession as the only case of a female ruler of a kingdom in Anglo-Saxon history and "one of the most unique events in early medieval history". In Wessex, royal women were not allowed to play any political role; Alfred's wife was not gr...
Æthelflæd died at Tamworth on 12June 918 and her body was carried 75 miles (121 km) to Gloucester, where she was buried with her husband in their foundation, St Oswald's Minster. According to the Mercian Register, Æthelflæd was buried in the east porticus. A building suitable for a royal mausoleum has been found by archaeological investigation at t...
To the West Saxon version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Æthelflæd was merely King Edward's sister, whereas for the Mercian Register she was Lady of the Mercians. Irish and Welsh annals described her as a queen and the Annals of Ulster, which ignore the deaths of Alfred and Edward, described her as famosissima regina Saxonum (renowned Saxon queen). ...
In June 2018, Æthelflæd's funeral was re-enacted in front of a crowd of 10,000 people in Gloucester, as part of a series of living history events marking the 1,100th anniversary of her death. The 1,100th anniversary of the death of Æthelflaed was marked throughout 2018 in Tamworth with a number of major events, including the unveiling of a new six-...
This article was submitted to WikiJournal of Humanities for external academic peer review in 2018 (reviewer reports). The updated content was reintegrated into the Wikipedia page under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license (2018). The version of record as reviewed is: Dudley Miles; et al. (24 October 2018). "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians" (PDF). WikiJournal of ...
Blake, Matthew; Sargent, Andrew (2018). "'For the Protection of All the People': Æthelflæd and Her Burhs in Northwest Mercia". Midland History. 43 (2): 120–54. doi:10.1080/0047729X.2018.1519141. IS...Hardie, Rebecca, ed. (2023). Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England. Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan Uni...Winkler, Emily (August 2022). "Æthelflaed and Other Rulers in English Histories, c.900–1150". English Historical Review. 137 (587): 969–1002. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceac178. ISSN 0013-8266.The story of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians and one of the most powerful women to have lived during the Dark Ages. We also look at the role she played in uniting England.
un figlio di cui non si sa il nome: secondo gli storici fu il nonno di Ælgifu, moglie di Edwing d'Inghilterra. Sposò una donna anonima. Æthelflæd di Damerham (?-991), moglie di Edmondo I d'Inghilterra : non si sa se la ebbe veramente lui come sua sorella e suo fratello
Damerham may have been the birthplace of Æthelflæd. Æthelflæd bequeathed Damerham to Glastonbury Abbey when she died in the late 10th century. Domesday. In the time of Domesday Book (1086), Damerham was a large settlement of 80 households.
