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Emma of Normandy (referred to as Ælfgifu in royal documents; [3] c. 984 – 6 March 1052) was a Norman-born noblewoman who became the English, Danish, and Norwegian queen through her marriages to the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and the Danish king Cnut the Great.
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Encomium Emmae Reginae or Gesta Cnutonis Regis is an 11th-century Latin encomium in honour of the English queen Emma of Normandy. It was written in 1041 or 1042, probably by a monk of Saint-Omer , then in the County of Flanders .
Emma was an active participant in the First Crusade, [3] [14] which she joined in 1096 along with her husband and her son Alan; they served under Robert Curthose. [15] [16] Emma died some time after 1096 on the road to the Holy Land. [17] Emma's granddaughter Amice, the daughter of her son Raoul II, married Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of ...
Goda of England or Godgifu or Gode (c.1004 – c.1049/1056) was the daughter of King Æthelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy, and sister of King Edward the Confessor. She married firstly Drogo of Mantes, count of the Véxin, probably on 7 April 1024, [1] and had sons by him: Ralph the Timid, earl of Hereford.
Just as little is known of her life, so the precise date and circumstances of her death cannot be recovered. [21] In any event, she appears to have died by 1002, possibly in childbirth, when Æthelred took to wife Emma of Normandy, daughter of Count Richard of Rouen, who received or adopted her predecessor's Anglo-Saxon name, Ælfgifu.
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.
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.