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 | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW
  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

  
  

• 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."]

  
  

• 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.".