Search results
Ealdgyth (circa 992 – after 1016), modern English Edith may have been the name of the wife of Sigeferth son of Earngrim, thegn of the Seven Burghs, and later of King Edmund Ironside. She was probably the mother of Edmund's sons Edward the Exile and Edmund Ætheling.
Ealdgyth (fl. c. 1057–1066), also Aldgyth or Edith in modern English, was a daughter of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, the wife of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (d. 1063), ruler of all Wales, and later the wife and queen consort of Harold Godwinson, king of England in 1066.
The name Ealdgyth (Old English: Ealdgȳð; sometimes modernized to Aldith, may refer to Ealdgyth, daughter of Uhtred the Bold, Earl of Northumbria (died 1016) and Ælfgifu who is a daughter of Æthelred II; Ealdgyth (floruit 1015–1016) (born c. 992), wife of Sigeferth and then of King Edmund Ironside; Ealdgyth, wife of the thane ...
Ealdgyth, wife of Harold II. She was daughter of the Mercian earl Ælfgar, and previously married to the Welsh king Gruffydd, defeated by Harold in 1063, slain by his own men. Harold probably married her to ensure the allegiance of her brothers, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria.
Ealdgyth was the wife of Eadmund II, king of England, who married her in 1015 after his father Æthelred's death. She was the widow of Sigeferth, a thegn of the Seven Boroughs, and had two sons, Eadmund and Eadweard.
"Ealdgyth" published on by null. Wife of Harold II. She was daughter of the Mercian earl Ælfgar, and previously married to the Welsh king Gruffydd, defeated by Harold in 1063, slain by his own men. ...
Ealdgyth (fl. 1016)Queen of the English. Name variations: Algitha; Edith. Flourished around 1016; married Sigeferth, a Danish thane; married Edmund II Ironside (c. 989–1016), king of the English (r. 1016), around July 1015; children: Edmund (1016–?);
