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Æthelgifu (Old English pronunciation: [ˈæðeljivu], fl. 870s to 890s) was a daughter of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. She was the third surviving child of the marriage between Alfred and Ealhswith in 868.
26 de abr. de 2022 · Æthelgifu was the daughter of King Alfred the Great, an Anglo-Saxon king of the 9th century. She was the third of Alfred and his wife Ealhswith's five children and the second eldest daughter. She was likely born sometime in the 870s.
15 de may. de 2023 · Little is known about Æthelgifu, the third daughter of Alfred the Great, except that she became the first abbess of a new house founded at Shaftesbury in around 893, which was destined to...
4 de may. de 2015 · Alfred the Great and his daughter Æthelgifu founded the Abbey in 888 (eight years after founding the town of Shaftesbury as a burgh), which boosted the town's growth. The relics of St Edward the Martyr were translated from Wareham and received at the abbey with great ceremony.
20 de dic. de 2021 · Æthelgifu’s supposed saints day, her virtue and crucially her ‘Englishness’ were contrasted with a negative criticism of the British government, and used to deflect it. This deflection was ultimately a misuse of a historical figure.
29 de nov. de 2021 · The noblewoman Æthelgifu and her daughter, Queen Ælfgifu, are two of many examples of influential women who ended up on the wrong side of history. Dunstan’s hagiographer reduced these two powerful women to sexual objects that exist purely to reflect the morality of the men around them.
6 de may. de 2021 · Biography. Æthelgifu (Wessex) of Shaftesbury is a member of the House of Wessex. Æthelgifu was the daughter of King Alfred and his wife Ealhswith. [1] [2] There is no firm source for her birth and death dates. She was the first Abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey, [1] [3] which her father founded. [4]
