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Eadward "the Elder", King of Wessex and Mercia

Male 875 - 924  (~ 53 years)


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  • Name Eadward "the Elder"  
    Suffix King of Wessex and Mercia 
    Birth Between 871 and 875  [1
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth Abt 872  [2
    Death 17 Jul 924  Fardon, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Alternate death 925  [4
    Burial Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    Person ID I11264  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of FF, Ancestor of FW, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JDM, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 4 Sep 2018 

    Father Ælfred "the Great", King of Wessex,   b. 848, Wantage, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Oct 899 (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Ealhswith   d. 5 Dec 902 
    Marriage 869  [1
    Family ID F3514  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Ælfflaed   d. 918 
    Marriage Bef 901  [2
    Children 
    +1. Eadgyth   d. 26 Jan 946
    +2. Eadgifu of Wessex,   b. 902   d. 951 (Age 49 years)
    Family ID F1573  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Nov 2015 

    Family 2 Eadgifu of Kent   d. Aft 966 
    Marriage 919  [1
    Children 
    +1. Eadmund, King of Wessex and Mercia,   b. Abt 922   d. 26 May 946, Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 24 years)
    Family ID F2216  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Dec 2017 

  • Notes 
    • "Eadweard's nickname of 'the Elder' is not contemporary, but was assigned later to distinguish him from the two other Anglo-Saxon kings of that name." [The Henry Project]

  • Sources 
    1. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    2. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart.

    3. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.

    4. [S764] Nathaniel L. Taylor, "Dynastic Chronology: Western Europe, X - XIII Centuries.".