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Æthelflæd
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Æthelflæd ( – 12 June 918) ruled as Lady of the Mercians in the English Midlands from 911 until her death in 918. She was the eldest child of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Æthelflæd
- Royalty.succession
- Lady of the Mercians
- Royalty.image
- Æthelflæd as depicted in the cartulary of Abingdon Abbey.png
- Royalty.caption
- Æthelflæd (from The Cartulary and Customs of Abingdon Abbey, )
- Royalty.alt
- 13th-century depiction of Æthelflæd
- Royalty.reign
- 911–918
- Royalty.predecessor
- Æthelred
- Royalty.successor
- Ælfwynn
- Royalty.house
- Wessex
- Royalty.spouse
- Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians
- Royalty.issue
- Ælfwynn
- Royalty.father
- Alfred the Great
- Royalty.mother
- Ealhswith
- Royalty.death_date
- 12 June 918 (aged )
- Royalty.death_place
- Tamworth, Staffordshire, Mercia
- Royalty.burial_place
- St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- The Dinner Party
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Wessex
- Place of death
- Tamworth
- Child
- Ælfwynn
- Father
- Alfred the Great
- Mother
- Ealhswith
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Position held
- king
- Family
- House of Wessex
- Noble title
- queen
- Image
- Æthelflæd as depicted in the cartulary of Abingdon Abbey.png
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- Æthelflæd of Wessex, Lady of Mercia
- date of death
- 0918-00-00
- ethnic group
- Saxons
- name in native language
- Æthelflæd
- date of birth
- 0870-00-00
- place of burial
- St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester
- present in work
- The Saxon Stories
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Background
- Sources
- Family
- Æthelflæd and Æthelred
- Lady of the Mercians
- Death and aftermath
- Legacy
- Commemoration
- See also
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Æthelflæd ( – 12 June 918) ruled as Lady of the Mercians in the English Midlands from 911 until her death in 918. She was the eldest child of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.
Æthelflæd was born around 870 at the height of the Viking invasions of England. By 878, most of England was under Danish Viking rule – East Anglia and Northumbria having been conquered, and Mercia partitioned between the English and the Vikings – but in that year Alfred won a crucial victory at the Battle of Edington. Soon afterwards the English-controlled western half of Mercia came under the rule of Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, who accepted Alfred's overlordship. Alfred adopted the title King of the Anglo-Saxons (previously he was titled King of the West Saxons like his predecessors) claiming to rule all Anglo-Saxon people not living in areas under Viking control. In the mid-880s, Alfred sealed the strategic alliance between the surviving English kingdoms by marrying Æthelflæd to Æthelred.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Æthelflæd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.