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1 Godgifu ETHELRED1 ( - ) [14616].
2 ETHELRED II2,3,4,5 (968-1016) [14607]. Born 0968.4 Marr EMMA 1002.1 Died 23 Apr 1016.3,5
4 EDGAR5,6,7 (943-975) [14612]. Born 0943.6 Marr ELFLEDA bef 0967.8 Marr ELFRIDA bef 0968.8 Died 8 Jul 0975.6,7 Buried Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.7
From History of the Monarchy (website)
"Edgar, king in Mercia and the Danelaw from 957, succeeded his brother as king of the English on Edway's death in 959. His death probably prevented civil war breaking out between the two brothers.
Edgar was a firm and capable ruler whose power was acknowledged by other rulers in Britan, as well as by Welsh and Scottish kings. Edgar's late coronation in 973 at Bath was the first to be recorded in some detail; his queen Aelfthryth was the first consort to be crowned queen of England.
Edgar was the patron of a great monastic revival which owed much to his association with Archbishop Dunstan. New bishoprics were created, Benedictine monasteries were reformed and old monastics sites were re-endowed with royal grants, some of which were land recovered from the Vikings.
In the 970's and in the absence of Viking attacks, Edgar - a stern judge - issued laws which for the first time dealt with Northumbria (parts of which were in the Danelaw) as well as Wessex and Mercia. Edgar's coinage was uniform throughout the kingdom. A more united kingdom based on royal justice and order was emerging. The Monastic Agreement (c.970) praised Edgar as 'the glorious, by the grace of Christ illustrious king of the English and of the other peoples dwelling within the bounds of the island of Britan'.
After his death on 8 July 975, Edgar was buried at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.".
8 Edmund the ELDER3,9,10 (aft921-946) [14617]. Born btw 0921 and 0923.3,10 Died 26 May 0946, Pucklekirk (Pucklechurch), Gloucestershire.3,10 Buried Glastonbury.11
We know that the father of King Edgar was Edmund the Elder. As noted below, he was also known as "the Deed-Doer" and "the Magnificent." From The English Cyclopaedia edited by Charles Knight, 1856, we learn the following about Edmund:
1. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife Edgiva.
2. He was likely born sometime before 923. (Other sources, see below, report 921.)
3. Edmund died May 26, 946 in Pucklekirk, Gloucestershire.
3. Edmund's father, Edward the Elder, died in 925.
4. Edmund had a brother, Edred, who succeeded him.
The current online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica reports a birth date for Edmund of 921 and also gives his place of death as Pucklechurch. Wife Edgiva is here shown as Eadgifu.
Early British Kingdoms by David Nash Ford, 2014, reports that Edmund had only two wives, the first being the mother of King Edgar, here shown as St. Aelfgith. (Edgiva, Eadgifu and St. Aelfgith all appear to be the same person.) She died in 944. Edmund's second wife was Ethelflaed. We also learn that Edmund was buried at Glastonbury.
9 ST. AELFGITH11 ( -944) [14623]. Died 0944.11
5 ELFRIDA5 (945-1000) [14613]. Born 0945.6 Died 1000.6
3 EMMA1,4 (c. 985-1052) [14610]. Born c. 0985.1 Died 1052.1
From The Rise of the Medieval World, 500-1300: A Biographical Dictionary by Jana K. Schulman, 2002.
"EMMA OF ENGLAND (C. 985-1052) Queen of England, she was the daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. She married King Ethelred the Unready of England in 1002 as part of Aethelred's attempt to gain the Norman's aid against the Viking invaders. Emma and Aethelred had three children. Edward, (later called the Confessor), Alfred and Godgifu. The marriage did not end England's Viking problems, however. After Aethelred died in 1016, the Dane Cnut became king of England and married Emma in 1017. As Cnut's wife, Emma had two children, Hardaenut and Gunnhild. Perhaps the most significant contribution that Emma made was the family tie between Norman dukes and the English kings: William I the Conqueror's claim to the English throne was based on his kinship to Emma.
As Queen, Emma gained a reputation for generosity to the Church as well as a reputation for political machinations that involved supporting one son's claim to the throne against another's. Emma, especially while she was Cnut's queen consort, gave lavish gifts to several monasteries, including altar pieces of gold, silver and gems, various relics, and illuminated manuscripts. The implication seems clear, both Emma and Cnut, as foreigners ruling the realm, wanted to gain support of the Church through the practice of gift giving. As for her political endeavors, Emma tried to secure the English throne for Hardacnut, but when Cnut died in 1035, Harold I, his son by another woman, succeeded him. Harold's short reign saw Emma in exile, but she returned to England when Hardaenut ascended the throne in 1040. Hardacnut;s death in 1042 resulted in Edward the Confessors gaining the crown and in Emma losing her land. Exactly why Edward deprived his mother or her estates in not entirely clear, although she did not originally support his claim to the throne, and she was implicated as an accessory to his brother Alfred's murder. Despite this, he did allow her to live out her life in relative ease in Winchester.".
| 1 | "The Rise of the Medieval World, 500-1300: A Biographical Dictionary by Jana K. Schulman, 2002". |
| 2 | "The Collegiate, School and Family History of England by Edward Farr, 1856". |
| 3 | "Online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica". |
| 4 | "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard and Kaleen E. Beall, 2004". |
| 5 | "The World-wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer edited by William Harrison De Puy, 1908". |
| 6 | "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Kaleen E. Beall, 2004". |
| 7 | "History of the Monarchy (website)". |
| 8 | "Estimated based on related dates and information". |
| 9 | "English Monarchs-Kings and Queens of England (website)". |
| 10 | "The English Cyclopaedia edited by Charles Knight, 1856". |
| 11 | "Early British Kingdoms by David Nash Ford, 2014". |