Elfthryth (?)

F, b. 945, d. 1000
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     Elfthryth (?) Sometimes referred to as Elfrida. Elfthryth beat her son Ethelred (the Unready) with candles so hard and so often that he had a life-long phobia of them. Elfthryth was a nun at the time she died.2 She was born in 945. She was the daughter of Ordgar (?) Earl of Devonshire.1 Elfthryth (?) married King Edgar (?), son of King Edmund (?) I and Elfgifu (?), in 964.1 Elfthryth (?) died in 1000 at Wherwell, Hampshire, England.

Child of Elfthryth (?) and King Edgar (?)

Citations

  1. [S56] Burke's Peerage & Gentry - The Royal Lineage, online http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/common/sitepages/…
  2. [S57] RoyaList Online - A Royal Genealogy Database, online http://www.royalist.info/, http://www.royalist.info/execute/biog?person=1522
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