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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]
Ælfthryth (c. 945 – 1000 or 1001, also Alfrida, Elfrida or Elfthryth) was Queen of the English from her marriage to King Edgar in 964 or 965 until Edgar's death in 975. . She was a leading figure in the regency during the minority of her son King Æthelred the Unready between 978 and
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, wife of King Edmund I of England; Ælfgifu of York, first wife of Æthelred the Unready; Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, king of England as Elgiva, the female protagonist of Edwy and Elgiva, a 1790 verse tragedy by Frances Burney; Emma of Normandy adopted the name Ælfgifu upon her marriage to Æthelred the Unready
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.
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.
She is first recorded as Æthelred's wife in a charter of 887, but the marriage probably took place in the early to mid 880s. [27] Æthelred was probably much older than his wife. [16] They had a daughter, Ælfwynn, and according to the twelfth century chronicler, William of Malmesbury, she was their only child. [28]
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 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.