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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 ...
After Æthelred's death in 911, Æthelflæd ruled as "Lady of the Mercians", but she did not inherit the Mercian territories of London and Oxford, which were taken by Edward. Æthelflæd died in 918, and their daughter Ælfwynn briefly ruled Mercia until deposed by Edward the Elder, who took the territory under his direct control. [44]
The 1930 novel Elfwin by S. Fowler Wright features Æthelflæd (called Ethelfleda in the text). [2] The young adult novel The Edge on the Sword (2003) by Rebecca Tingle deals with Aethelflaeda as a young woman. [3] In Bernard Cornwell's "Saxon Stories" series she appears in a number of the books.
Ælfwynn was the ruler of Mercia as the 'Second Lady of the Mercians' for a few months in 918, following her mother's death on 12 June 918. She was the daughter of Æthelred and Æthelflæd, the rulers of Mercia.
Mercia's exact evolution at the start of the Anglo-Saxon era remains more obscure than that of Northumbria, Kent, or even Wessex. Mercia developed an effective political structure and was Christianised later than the other kingdoms. [5] Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century.
Ethelfleda (alternative spelling Aethelfled, Æthelfleda, Æthelflæd) (872/879 – 918), Queen of Mercia, called "Lady of the Mercians". Daughter of Alfred the Great, she succeeded to Mercian power upon the death of her husband Aethelred, Ealdorman of Mercia (883–911), in 911. She was a skilled military leader and tactician, who defended ...
Æthelflæd died in 918 and the Mercians installed her daughter Ælfwynn as the second Lady of the Mercians, but Edward seized her and established full control over Mercia. [7] Edward died in 924 and was succeeded by his eldest son Æthelstan, who may have been king only of Mercia at first, but ruled the whole of his father's realm by the next ...
She is attested by Eadmer's Life of St Dunstan, which says that Æthelflæd Eneda, daughter of Ordmær, ealdorman (dux) of the East Angles, became the lawful wife (coniunx legitima) of Edgar while he was king of the Mercians (between 957 and 959), and died 'a few years later'.