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Æthelflæd / ˈ æ θ əl f l æ d / is an Anglo-Saxon female name meaning "noble beauty". Notable people with the name include: Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, daughter of Alfred the Great; Æthelflæd of Damerham, queen of England, second wife of King Edmund and mother of Edward II; Æthelflæd Eneda, first wife of King Edgar and mother ...
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Æthelflæd Æthelflæd (from The Cartulary and Customs of Abingdon Abbey, c. 1220) Lady of the Mercians Reign 911–918 Predecessor Æthelred Successor Ælfwynn Born c. 870 Died 12 June 918 (aged c. 48) Tamworth, Staffordshire Burial St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester Spouse Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians Issue Ælfwynn, Lady of the Mercians House Wessex Father Alfred the Great Mother Ealhswith ...
According to Bede, Æthelfryth died of a neck tumour, which she interpreted as sent by God in his goodness to relieve her of guilt for her vanity in having worn heavy necklaces in her youth. [6] Bede states that after her death, her bones were disinterred by her sister and successor, Seaxburh and that her uncorrupted body was later buried in a ...
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Ethel was in origin used as a familiar form of such names, but it began to be used as a feminine given name in its own right beginning in the mid-19th century, gaining popularity due to characters so named in novels by W. M. Thackeray (The Newcomes – 1855) and Charlotte Mary Yonge (The Daisy Chain whose heroine Ethel's full name is Etheldred ...