Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (5 page)

1  
King Athelstan
(
see here
).

2  
Alfred

No dates are recorded, and very little is known about him. He may have died young.

3  
St Edith

She married Sihtric Caoch, King of Northumbria (
d
.927), on 30 January, 925/6, at Tamworth, Staffordshire. After her widowhood, she became a nun at Polesworth Abbey, Warwickshire, in 927. That same year, she was transferred to Tamworth Abbey, Gloucestershire, where she was immediately elected Abbess. She died in
c
.927. After her death, she was canonised, and her Feast Day is 15 July.

1  
Edwin

He was perhaps ‘Subregulus’ of Kent. In 933, he drowned in the English Channel, perhaps murdered on the orders of his half-brother, King Athelstan. He was buried in St Bertin’s Abbey, Flanders.

2  
Elfweard

Information about Elfweard is conflicting. One source states he married and had children, but gives no details. Another source, less trustworthy, states he was a hermit at Bridgenorth, Salop. What is certain is that he died on 1 August, 924, at Oxford, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral.

3  
Edfleda

No dates are recorded. She was a nun, but her community is not named: it was perhaps Winchester. She was buried in Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire.

4  
Edgiva
(or
Ogive
)

She married Charles III, King of France (
d
.929), between 916 and 919, and had issue:

1  Louis IV, King of France (921?–954), who married Gerberga (
d
.984), daughter of Henry the Fowler of Saxony, Holy Roman Emperor, and had issue.

Edgiva married secondly, Heribert III, Count of Vermandois, Meaux, and Troyes (
d
.995), in
c
.951 at St Quentin, France, and had issue:

2  Stephen I, Count of Vermandois (
b
.952?–1021).

3  Agnes (
b
. 953).

Edgiva died in
c
. 953, perhaps in childbirth. Some sources state she died in 948, in which case her second marriage took place earlier than is generally supposed.

5  
Edhilda

She married Hugh Capet, Count of Paris and Duke of the French (
d
.956), in 926/7, and had issue:

1  Hugh, King of France (938?–996), who married Adelaide (
d
.1004/5), daughter of William, Duke of Aquitaine, and had issue.
Edhilda died on 26 January, 947. (Some sources state she died in
c
.938, or even earlier, but this is improbable.)

6  
Edith

She married Otto I, Duke of Saxony and German Emperor (
d
.973), in
c
.925/30, and had issue:

1  Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (
d
.957), who married Ida, daughter of Hermann, Duke of Almayne, Swabia, and had issue.

2  Liutgarde, married Conrad, Duke of Lorraine.

Edith died on 26 January,
c
.946/7, in Germany, and was buried in the Cathedral of St Maurice, Magdeburg.

7  
Elfleda

She became a nun at Winchester, where she died in
c
.963. She was buried in Wilton Abbey, Wilts.

8  
Elgiva

No dates are recorded. She married ‘a Prince near the Alps’. He has recently been identified, with near certainty, as Boleslaw II, Duke of Bohemia (
d.
999). Other, less probable, identifications have been made with Conrad III, King of Burgundy (
d
.993); Alberic, son of Majolus, Count of Narbonne; and Charles Constantine, King of Arles, son of either the Emperor Louis the Blind or Louis II, King of Arles.

9  
Ethelfleda

No dates are recorded. She was perhaps a nun at Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, and may have been elected Abbess of Romsey, where she was later buried.

10  
Ethelhilda

No dates are recorded. She was a lay sister or recluse at Romsey Abbey, Hampshire. She was buried in Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire.

1  
Edmund I
(
see here
).

2  
St Edburga

She became a nun at Nunnaminster Abbey, Winchester; she was
possibly elected Abbess, but this is unlikely. She died on 15 June, 960, and was buried in Nunnaminster Abbey. After her canonisation, her remains were translated to Pershore Abbey, Worcs.

3  
Edgiva

She was married in infancy to ‘Louis of Aquitaine, King of Arles’, before 923. Her husband has not been successfully identified. He may have been Louis II, King of Arles, in which case the issue of the marriage may have been: