Ealswitha
Ealswitha (o. 852. – 905.) bila je kći Æthelreda Mucila, ealdormana plemena Gaini i Eadburh, koja je možda bila potomak kralja Coenwulfa.[1] Postala je „kraljica” 868.[2] udajom za Alfreda Velikog.[3] Imali su nekoliko djece:
- Æthelflæd, majka gospe Ælfwynn
- Æthelgifu
- Eduard I. Stariji
- Elfrida Mercijska
- Æthelweard
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Nakon smrti svoga muža, Ealswitha se zaredila. Nakon smrti je pokopana u Winchesteru, u samostanu Nunnaminster koji je osnovala s mužem.
Izvori
uredi- ↑ Keynes & Lapidge, Asser, str. 77, 240, 241; Cyril Hart, Æthelstan, str. 116, ISBN 0 521 20218 3
- ↑ Marios Costambeys, Ealhswith
- ↑ Keynes, Simon; Lapidge, Michael (1983.). Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources. Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0-14-04440-94.
- Abels, Richard. Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Harlow: Longman, 1998.
- Asser, Johannes. Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources. London: Penguin Classics, 1983.
- Bugyis, Katie Ann-Marie. "The Practice of Penance in Communities of Benedictine Women Religious in Central Medieval England." Speculum 92, no.1 (January 2017): 36-84. https://doi.org/10.1086/689410
- Costambeys, Marios. 2004. Ealhswith (d. 902), consort of Alfred, king of the West Saxons. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39226. Pristupljeno 25. listopada 2012.
- Jones, Margaret C.. Founder, Fighter Saxon-Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians.
- MacLean, Simon. "Queenship, Nunneries and Royal Widowhood in Carolingian Europe."
- Marafioti, Nicole. The King's Body Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England.
- Nelson, Janet L.. Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Modern Europe: Alfred, Charles the Bald and Others. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Traves, Alex. "Genealogy and Royal Woman in Asser's Life of King Alfred: Politics, Prestige, and Maternal Kinship in early Medieval England."
Vanjske poveznice
uredi- Find a grave Arhivirana inačica izvorne stranice od 14. svibnja 2011. (Wayback Machine), profil kraljice Ealswithe
- Opatija sv. Marije