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Biography of Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany -946

Paternal Family Tree: Wessex

Maternal Family Tree: Aelfflaed Wiltshire Queen Anglo Saxons 870

924 Death of King Edward the Elder

925 Coronation of King Athelstan

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

Death of King Edward the Elder

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 succeeded I King Anglo Saxons.

Coronation of King Athelstan

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 04 Sep 925. And [her half-brother] Athelstan (age 31) was chosen king in Mercia, and consecrated at Kingston [Map]. He gave his sister to [her future husband] Otho (age 12), son of the [her future father-in-law] king of the Old-Saxons (age 49). St. Dunstan (age 16) 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 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.

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 [her former father-in-law] 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 [her grandson] 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; and he was the son of [her son] Leodulf Atheling. This Leodulf was the son of [her former husband] Otho the Elder and of the daughter of [her father] King Edward.

Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany -946 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex 849-899

Royal Ancestors of Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany -946

Kings Wessex: Daughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons

Ancestors of Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany -946

Great x 4 Grandfather: Eafa Wessex

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ealmund King of Kent

Great x 2 Grandfather: King Egbert of Wessex

Great x 1 Grandfather: King Æthelwulf of Wessex

GrandFather: King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex

Great x 2 Grandfather: Oslac

Great x 1 Grandmother: Osburgh Queen Consort Wessex

Father: King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons

Great x 1 Grandfather: Æthelred Mucel Mercia Earldorman Gaini

GrandMother: Æalhswith of Mercia Queen Consort of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Eadburh of Mercia

Eadgyth Wessex Queen Consort Germany

GrandFather: Æthelhelm Earldorman Wiltshire

Mother: Aelfflaed Wiltshire Queen Anglo Saxons