Ealdgyth of East Anglia
(Cir 963-After 1017)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Edmund Ironside

Ealdgyth of East Anglia

  • Born: Cir 963, Essex England
  • Marriage (1): Edmund Ironside
  • Died: After 1017, Winchester, Wessex England

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. Mary-Ann Cook who writes:
Edith (Eadgyth) of East Anglia, wife of Edmund II of England (circa 963-1017) was married to Sigeferth, a supporter of Edmund Ironside against his father, Ethelred the Unready. Sigeferth was killed on orders of Ethelred in 1015 by being invited to a feast with Ealdorman Morcar by Eadric Streona and then both were murdered whilst drunk. Edmund II took Edith from the nunnery she had been sent to and married her. They would have two children before Edmund`s death in 1016, Edward the Exile and Edmund. Edith hanged herself soon after, before her sons were sent to Kiev in 1017.


Ealdgyth married Edmund Ironside, son of Ethelred the Unready and Elvigiva (Aelfgifu) Gunnarsson. (Edmund Ironside was born circa 989 in Winchester, Hampshire England and died on 30 Nov 1016 in London City, Middlesex England.)


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