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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 ...
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 ...
Æthelred's immediate relations. Æthelred was the son of Penda of Mercia. Penda's queen, Cynewise, is named by Bede, who does not mention her children; no other wives of Penda are known and so it is likely but not certain that she was Æthelred's mother.
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 ...
Æthelred (/ ˈ æ θ əl r ɛ d /; Old English: Æþelræd [ˈæðelræːd]) or Ethelred (/ ˈ ɛ θ əl r ɛ d /) is an Old English personal name (a compound of æþele and ræd, meaning "noble counsel" or "well-advised") and may refer to:
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Æthelthryth (or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe; c. 636 – 23 June 679) was an East Anglian princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian queen and Abbess of Ely.She is an Anglo-Saxon saint, and is also known as Etheldreda or Audrey, especially in religious contexts.
Æthelred's descent is unknown, and he does not appear to have been closely related to his immediate predecessors, although his name suggests possible descent from earlier Mercian kings. [8] He may have been the man of the same name who attested two Mercian charters in the late 860s, [ 9 ] but he is not listed in the two surviving charters of ...