Biography of Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany -946

Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany was born to King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons and Aelfflaed Wiltshire Queen Anglo Saxons.

Around 893 [her father] King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons (age 19) and Ecgwynn Unknown Queen Consort Anglo Saxons were married. He the son of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex (age 44) and Æalhswith of Mercia Queen Consort of England.

On 26 Oct 899 [her grandfather] King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex (age 50) died at Winchester, Hampshire [Map]. He was buried at Hyde Abbey. His son [her father] King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons (age 25) succeeded King Anglo Saxons. Ecgwynn Unknown Queen Consort Anglo Saxons by marriage Queen Consort Anglo Saxons.

Around 900 [her father] King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons (age 26) and [her mother] Aelfflaed Wiltshire Queen Anglo Saxons (age 30) were married. She the daughter of Æthelhelm Earldorman Wiltshire. He the son of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex and Æalhswith of Mercia Queen Consort of England.

Around 919 [her father] King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons (age 45) and Eadgifu Kent Queen Anglo Saxons were married. She by marriage Queen Anglo Saxons. He the son of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex and Æalhswith of Mercia Queen Consort of England.

On 17 Jul 924 [her father] King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons (age 50) died. He was buried in St Oswald's Priory [Map]. His son [her half-brother] King Æthelstan I of England (age 30) succeeded King Anglo Saxons. His son King Æthelstan I of England (age 30) succeeded I King Anglo Saxons.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 17 Jul 924. This year died [her father] King Edward (age 50) at Farndon in Mercia; and [her brother] Elward (age 22) his son died very soon after this, in Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map]. Their bodies lie at Winchester. And [her half-brother] Athelstan (age 30) was chosen king in Mercia, and consecrated at Kingston [Map]. He gave his sister to [her future husband] Otho (age 11), son of the [her future father-in-law] king of the Old-Saxons (age 48). St. Dunstan (age 15) was now born; and Wulfhelm took to the archbishopric in Canterbury. This year King Athelstan and Sihtric king of the Northumbrians came together at Tamworth, Staffordshire [Map], the sixth day before the calends of February, and Athelstan (age 30) gave away his [her half-sister] sister to him.

In 929 Otto I King Germany I King Italy Holy Roman Emperor (age 16) and Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany were married. She the daughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons and Aelfflaed Wiltshire Queen Anglo Saxons (age 59). He the son of Henry "Fowler" I King East Francia (age 53) and Matilda Ringelheim Queen Consort East Francia.

Around 930 [her son] Liudolf Saxon Ottonian Duke Swabia was born to [her husband] Otto I King Germany I King Italy Holy Roman Emperor (age 17) and Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany.

In 931 [her daughter] Liutgarde Saxon Ottonian was born to [her husband] Otto I King Germany I King Italy Holy Roman Emperor (age 18) and Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany.

On 02 Jul 936 [her father-in-law] Henry "Fowler" I King East Francia (age 60) died. His son [her husband] Otto I King Germany I King Italy Holy Roman Emperor (age 23) succeeded I King Germany, I Duke Saxony. Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany by marriage Queen Consort Germany.

In 937 Hugh "Great" Capet Count Paris (age 39) and [her sister-in-law] Hedwig Saxon Ottonian (age 27) were married. She the daughter of Henry "Fowler" I King East Francia and Matilda Ringelheim Queen Consort East Francia. He the son of Robert I King West Francia and Beatrice Vermandois.

In 938 [her brother-in-law] Thankmar Saxon Ottonian (age 30) was killed.

On 26 Jan 946 Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany died.

In 951 [her former husband] Otto I King Germany I King Italy Holy Roman Emperor (age 38) and Adelaide Welf Holy Roman Empress (age 20) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Germany. She the daughter of Rudolph "Pious" II King Burgundy II King Italy and Bertha Swabia Queen Consort Italy. He the son of Henry "Fowler" I King East Francia and Matilda Ringelheim Queen Consort East Francia.

On 07 May 973 [her former husband] Otto I King Germany I King Italy Holy Roman Emperor (age 60) died. His son Otto "Red" II King Germany II Holy Roman Emperor II King Italy (age 18) succeeded II King Germany.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 982. In this year came up in Dorsetshire three ships of the pirates, and plundered in Portland. The same year London was burned. In the same year also died two aldermen, Ethelmer in Hampshire, and Edwin in Sussex. Ethelmer's body lieth in Winchester, at New-minster, and Edwin's in the minster at Abingdon [Map]. The same year died two abbesses in Dorsetshire; Herelufa at Shaftsbury, and Wulfwina at Wareham. The same year went Otho (age 28), emperor of the Romans, into Greece; and there met he a great army of the Saracens, who came up from the sea, and would have proceeded forthwith to plunder the Christian folk; but the emperor fought with them. And there was much slaughter made on either side, but the emperor gained the field of battle. He was there, however, much harassed, ere he returned thence; and as he went homeward, his brother's son died, who was also called Otho (age 28); and he was the son of [her son] Leodulf Atheling. This Leodulf was the son of Otho the Elder and of the daughter of King Edward.

Conrad "Red" Saxony I Duke Lorraine and [her daughter] Liutgarde Saxon Ottonian were married. She the daughter of Otto I King Germany I King Italy Holy Roman Emperor and Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany.

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