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Emma and Æthelred's marriage ended with Æthelred's death in London in 1016. Æthelred's oldest son from his first marriage, Æthelstan Ætheling, had been heir apparent until his death in June 1014. Emma's sons had been ranked after all of the sons from Æthelred's first wife, the eldest surviving of whom was Edmund Ironside. [10]
King Æthelred the Unready married his second wife Emma of Normandy in 1002 and her elder son Edward the Confessor was born around 1004. Three charters between 1007 and 1011 are attested by Edward and his mother but not by Alfred, who first attests in 1013.
Æthelred's first name, composed of the elements æðele 'noble', and ræd 'counsel', [2] is typical of the compound names of those who belonged to the royal House of Wessex, and it characteristically alliterates with the names of his ancestors, like Æthelwulf 'noble-wolf', Ælfred 'elf-counsel', Eadweard 'rich-protection', and Eadgar 'rich-spear'.
Ælfgifu of York (fl. c. 970 – 1002) was the first wife of Æthelred the Unready, King of the English; as such, she was Queen of the English from their marriage in the 980s until her death in 1002. They had many children together, including Edmund Ironside.
Ælfgifu (also Ælfgyfu; Elfgifa, Elfgiva, Elgiva) is an Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name, from ælf "elf" and gifu "gift". When Emma of Normandy, the later mother of Edward the Confessor, became queen of England in 1002, she was given the native Anglo-Saxon name of Ælfgifu to be used in formal and official contexts.
Third, and last, Uhtred married Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred the Unready. They had a daughter: They had a daughter: Ealdgyth, ancestress of the Earls of Dunbar ; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] she married Maldred, called son of ' thegn Crínán' by De obsessione Dunelmi (possibly identical to Crínán of Dunkeld , thus making Maldred brother of Duncan I ...
Cnut is featured in the historical novel A Hollow Crown: The Story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England (2004, also published as The Forever Queen) by Helen Hollick. The protagonist is his wife Emma of Normandy. It covers her life, including her marriage to Cnut. [3]
Ælfgifu was born into an important noble family based in the Midlands ().She was a daughter of Ælfhelm, ealdorman of southern Northumbria, and his wife Wulfrun.Ælfhelm was killed in 1006, probably at the command of King Æthelred the Unready, and Ælfgifu's brothers, Ufegeat and Wulfheah, were blinded.