Eadgifu of Wessex
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Ælfflæd |
Eadgifu or Edgifu (d. in or after 951), also known as Edgiva or Ogive (
Ælfflæd.[1]
Queen
Eadgifu was one of three West Saxon sisters married to Continental rulers: the others were
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great. Eadgifu became the second wife of Charles the Simple (more correctly "the Straightforward") King of the West Franks, whom she married between 917 and 919 after the death of his first wife. Eadgifu was mother to King Louis IV of France.[1]
Flight to England
In 923 Charles III was deposed after being defeated at the
Herbert II of Vermandois. To protect her son's safety, Eadgifu took Louis to England in 923 and he was brought up at the court of her half-brother, King Æthelstan of England. Because of this, Louis became known as Louis d'Outremer ("from over the sea"). He stayed there until 936, when he was called back to France to be crowned King. Eadgifu accompanied him.[2]
She retired to a convent in Laon.[3] In 951, Herbert the Old, Count of Omois, abducted and married her, to the great anger of her son.[4] She died at Soissons on 26 December in an unknown year and is not recorded after 951.[1]
References
References
- Dunbabin, Jean (1999). "West Francia: The Kingdom". In Reuter, Timothy (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. III. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36447-7.
- Nelson, Janet (2004). "Eadgifu (d. in or after 951)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. required)
- Schwennicke, Detlev (1984) Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt), Tafel 49
- ISBN 1-85264-047-2.
Further reading
- MacLean, Simon (2012). "Making a Difference in Tenth-Century Politics: King Athelstan's Sisters and Frankish Queenship". In Fouracre, Paul; Ganz, David (eds.). Frankland: The Franks and the World of the Early Middle Ages (Paperback ed.). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. pp. 167–90. ISBN 978-0-7190-8772-1.
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