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...

Lord of the Mercians Edward the Elder (d. 924), King of the Anglo-Saxons Æthelgifu, made abbess of her foundation at Shaftesbury by her father Ælfthryth...

Lord of the Mercians; Edward the Elder, Alfred's successor as king; Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury; Ælfthryth, who married Baldwin, count of Flanders;...

unambiguously stated by the sources. First, her mother bore the name of Æthelgifu, a woman of very high birth (natione præcelsa). Second, she was related...

the Mercians after his death. Edward was next, and the second daughter, Æthelgifu, became abbess of Shaftesbury. The third daughter, Ælfthryth, married...

outbreak of World War II. In the same year the late-10th century will of Æthelgifu was discovered in one of the outbuildings. The property served as a private...

of Wimborne. Alex Woolf suggests she may have been Alfred's daughter Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury, but Ryan Lavelle thinks it unlikely that Æthelwold's...

between 990 and 1001 addresses her as “my lady” (mire hlæfdian), where Æthelgifu is promised a bequest of 30 mancuses of gold. Just as little is known...

seems to have eclipsed that of its first abbess, King Alfred's daughter Æthelgifu, so much so perhaps that William of Malmesbury wrote contradictory reports...

parted from his women if only by main force. "B" names one of the women as Æthelgifu, the mother of Eadwig's future wife, Ælfgifu, but he does not name the...

Æthelstan, Æthelflæd, Adalsinda, Adelmar, Æthelthryth/Audrey, Aðils, Æthelgifu see ethel, odal, *anô-, ON anu or ái, OHG ano ancestor Y (?) Olaf Hypocorisms...

of Æthelweard as the brother of Ælfgifu is correct, his mother was the Æthelgifu whose company Eadwig enjoyed along with her daughter whilst escaping his...

the Great founded the convent in about 888 and installed his daughter Æthelgifu as the first abbess. Ælfgifu, the wife of Alfred's grandson, King Edmund...

Dol in Brittany (7th century?) (see also: December 8) Saint Ethelgiva (Æthelgifu), the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury...

Hertfordshire County Council. Whitelock, Dorothy (1968). The Will of Æthelgifu. Oxford: Roxburghe Club, Oxford. OCLC 108189. Williamson, Tom (2010)....

founded by King Alfred the Great in Dorset. He installs his daughter Æthelgifu as first abbess (approximate date). October 20 – Zhu Youzhen, emperor...

Shaftesbury Abbey is founded as a convent by Alfred who installs his daughter Æthelgifu as first abbess. 890 The Welsh ruler Anarawd ap Rhodri, King of Gwynedd...

Liber Eliensis, describes a gift of land in "Thacstede" by a woman named Æthelgifu at some time between 881 and 1016. Archeological research of the area...

(ghulam) and general of the Fatimids. Mann, either of two men enslaved by Æthelgifu in Anglo-Saxon England and freed by the terms of her will. One was a goldsmith...

Leavesden Film Studios. Wild child was filmed in Balls park, Hertford. Æthelgifu was a Christian Saxon noblewoman who lived in the county in the late 980s...

identified with Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, and that queen's documented mother, Æthelgifu, would then be Eadric's wife. Though he is often referred to as "Ealdorman...

religious foundation established for women in England, Alfred's daughter, Æthelgifu was installed as abbess. By the Middle Ages, the abbey had become a very...

founded by King Alfred the Great in Dorset. He installs his daughter Æthelgifu as first abbess (approximate date). Guy III, duke of Spoleto, defeats...

regarding a gift of land in "Thacstede" to the abbey at Ely by a woman named Æthelgifu sometime between 981 and 1016. It states that the will, written in English...

derived from name of the Anglo Saxon female leader of the settlement, Aethelgifu, and is therefore a rare survivor of its gender from that time. In the...