Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Eadgyth

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Name Eadgyth [1] Gender Female Death 26 Jan 946 [2] Burial Monastery of Maritius, Magdeburg, Lower Saxony, Germany Person ID I6696 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 6 Jan 2018
Father Eadward "the Elder", King of Wessex and Mercia, b. Between 871 and 875 d. 17 Jul 924, Fardon, Cheshire, England (Age ~ 53 years)
Mother Ælfflaed d. 918 Marriage Bef 901 [2] Family ID F1573 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, b. 23 Nov 912 d. 7 May 973, Membleben, Lower Saxony, Germany (Age 60 years)
Marriage 930 [2, 3] Children + 1. Liudolf, b. 930 d. 6 Sep 957 (Age 27 years) + 2. Luitgarde, b. Abt 931 d. 18 Nov 953 (Age ~ 22 years) Family ID F2435 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 16 Jun 2018
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Notes - "Eadgyth was initially buried at the Monastery of Mauritius in Magdeburg. Her remains may thereafter have been transferred to Magdeburg Cathedral, but it was believed that the 16th-century tomb was most likely a cenotaph. However, recent excavations of the tomb at Magdeburg Cathedral, directed by Professor Harald Meller and Dr Veit Dresely of the Landesmuseum fur Vorgeschichte in Saxony Anhalt, revealed a lead coffin bearing Eadgyth's name and recording the transfer of her remains in 1510. Inside the coffin, lay a female skeleton wrapped in silk, aged between 30 and 40." [Blog of History Today, 20 Jan 2010, describing Eadgyth as "possibly the oldest member of the English royal family whose remains have survived."]
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Sources - [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.
- [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart.
- [S833] Brant Gibbard, 19 Jan 2000, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., "[I]n 929.".
- [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.