Fifth Generation  

6. Countess Ælfthryth of Flanders [120137] (Ealhswith⁴, Queen Edburga of Mercia³, Princess Elfleda of Mercia², Ceolwulf of Mercia (King)¹) was born about 871 in Wessex England, died on 7 Jun 929 in Pas-de-Calais France aged about 58, and was buried in St Peters Abbey Ghent Vlanderen Belgium.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of Ælfthryth,
She was the youngest daughter of Alfred the Great,[1] the Saxon King of England and his wife Ealhswith. Her siblings included King Edward the Elder and Æthelflæd.
Between 893 and 899, Ælfthryth married Baldwin II (died 918), Count of Flanders.[2]

Ælfthryth married Count Baudouin II [the Bald] of Flanders [120136] about 896. Baudouin was born about 863 in Vlanderen [Flanders] Belgium, died on 10 Sep 918 in Blandijnberg Ghent Flanders Belgium aged about 55, and was buried in Pas-de-Calais France.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of Bauduoin II,
Baldwin II was born around 865 to Margrave Baldwin I of Flanders and Judith, daughter of Emperor Charles the Bald.[2] The early years of Baldwin II's rule were marked by a series of devastating Viking raids into Flanders.[3] By 883, he was forced to move north to Pagus Flandransis, which became the territory most closely associated with the Counts of Flanders.[3] Baldwin constructed a series of wooden fortifications at Saint-Omer, Bruges, Ghent, and Kortrijk. He then seized lands that were abandoned by royal and ecclesiastical officials.[4] Many of these same citadels later formed castellanies which housed government, militia, and local courts.[3]

In 888, the Western Frankish king, Charles the Fat, was deposed, leaving several candidates vying to replace him.[5] As a grandson of Charles the Bald, who was king of West Francia, Baldwin could have competed for the crown.[4] Instead, Baldwin and others tried to convince the East Frankish king, Arnulf, to take the West Frankish crown, but Arnulf declined.[5]

The Robertine Odo, Count of Paris, was eventually made king.[6] Odo and Baldwin's relationship deteriorated when Odo failed to support Baldwin's attempts to gain control of the Abbey of St. Bertin. Odo attacked Baldwin at Bruges but was unable to prevail.[5] Baldwin continued his expansion to the south and gained control over Artois, including the important Abbey of St. Vaast.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 11    i. Count Arnoul I of Flanders [120127] was born on 12 Dec 889 in Ghent Vlanderen Belgium, died on 27 Mar 1964 in Ghent Vlanderen Belgium at age 1074, and was buried in Church of Saint-Pierre de Gand Ghent Vlanderen Flanders.

   12    ii. Count Adeloff of Bolougne [120138] was born in 891 in Boulogne Sur Mer Pas De Calais France, died on 13 Nov 933 in Thérouanne Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais France at age 42, and was buried in Thérouanne Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais France. Another name for Adeloff was Adolphe.

   13    iii. Ealswid of Flanders [120139] was born about 893 in Vlanderen [Flanders] Belgium and died in France.

   14    iv. Ermuntrud of Flanders [120140] was born in 896 in Vlanderen [Flanders] Belgium.

8. King Eadweard I "the Elder" of WESSEX of the Anglo-Saxons [120828] (Ealhswith⁴, Queen Edburga of Mercia³, Princess Elfleda of Mercia², Ceolwulf of Mercia (King)¹) was born about 874 in Wessex [modern Wantage in Berkshire], died on 17 Jul 924 in Farndon-on-Dee (Ferrington) Cheshire England aged about 50, and was buried in Winchester Hampshire England.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of Eadward,
Edward the Elder[a] (c. 874 \endash 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924. He was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his wife Ealhswith. When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin Æthelwold, who had a strong claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred.

Alfred had succeeded Æthelred as king of Wessex in 871, and almost faced defeat against the Danish Vikings until his decisive victory at the Battle of Edington in 878. After the battle, the Vikings still ruled Northumbria, East Anglia and eastern Mercia, leaving only Wessex and western Mercia under Anglo-Saxon control. In the early 880s Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, the ruler of western Mercia, accepted Alfred's lordship and married his daughter Æthelflæd, and around 886 Alfred adopted the new title King of the Anglo-Saxons as the ruler of all Anglo-Saxons not subject to Danish rule.

In 910 a Mercian and West Saxon army inflicted a decisive defeat on an invading Northumbrian army, ending the threat from the northern Vikings. In the 910s, Edward conquered Viking-ruled southern England in partnership with his sister Æthelflæd, who had succeeded as Lady of the Mercians following the death of her husband in 911. Historians dispute how far Mercia was dominated by Wessex during this period, and after Æthelflæd's death in June 918, her daughter Ælfwynn briefly became second Lady of the Mercians, but in December Edward took her into Wessex and imposed direct rule on Mercia. By the end of the 910s he ruled Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia, and only Northumbria remained under Viking rule. In 924 he faced a Mercian and Welsh revolt at Chester, and after putting it down he died at Farndon in Cheshire on 17 July 924. He was succeeded by his eldest son Æthelstan.

Edward was admired by medieval chroniclers, and in the view of William of Malmesbury, he was "much inferior to his father in the cultivation of letters" but "incomparably more glorious in the power of his rule". He was largely ignored by modern historians until the 1990s, and Nick Higham described him as "perhaps the most neglected of English kings", partly because few primary sources for his reign survive. His reputation rose in the late twentieth century and he is now seen as destroying the power of the Vikings in southern England while laying the foundations for a south-centred united English kingdom.

Eadweard married Ecgwynn [120830] about 893. Ecgwynn was born about 874 in Wessex England, died about 901 in Wessex England aged about 27, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral Hampshire England.

Children from this marriage were:

   15    i. King Æthelstan "the Glorius" of WESSEX of the English [123483] was born between 893 and 895 in Wessex England, died on 27 Oct 939 in England, and was buried in Malmesbury Abbey Malmesbury Wiltshire England.

   16    ii. Ælfred of WESSEX [123484] was born about 900 in Wessex England and died about 924 in England aged about 24.

   17    iii. Eadgyth of WESSEX [123485] was born about 902 in Wessex England and died after 927 in Tamworth Staffordshire England.

Eadweard next married Ælfflæd [120829] about 900. Ælfflæd was born about 878 in Wiltshire England, died about 920 in Wessex England aged about 42, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral Hampshire England.

Children from this marriage were:

   18    i. Ælfgifu of WESSEX [123473] was born in 900 in England and died on 15 Jul 967 at age 67.

   19    ii. Eadwin of WESSEX [123474] was born about 902 in Wessex England and died in 933 at Sea aged about 31.

   20    iii. Æthelflæda of WESSEX [123475] was born about 903 in Wessex England and died in 963 in Romsey Hampshire England aged about 60.

   21    iv. Ædflæd of WESSEX [123479] was born in 903 in Wessex England and died in 927 in Winchester Hampshire England at age 24.

+ 22    v. Queen Eadgifu of WESSEX of France [123476] was born in 904 in Wessex England and died after 955 in Soissons Aisne Picardie France.

   23    vi. Æthelhild of WESSEX [123478] was born about 906 in Wessex England and died on 14 Sep 937 in Wilton Somerset England aged about 31.

   24    vii. Ædflæd of WESSEX [123480] was born in 910 in Wessex England and died on 26 Jan 946 in Magdeburg Sachsen-Anhalt Germany at age 36.

   25    viii. Elgiva of WESSEX [123481] was born in 912 in Wessex England and died on 28 Oct 951 in Shaftesbury Dorset England at age 39.

   26    ix. Eadhilde of WESSEX [123482] was born about 915 in Wessex England and died in 937 aged about 22.

Eadweard next married Eadgifu [120831] about 919. Eadgifu was born in 896 in Kent England, died on 24 Aug 968 in Canterbury Kent England at age 72, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral Kent England.

Children from this marriage were:

   27    i. "Saint" Eadburh of WESSEX [123487] was born about 897 in Wessex England, died on 15 Jun 960 in Winchester Hampshire England aged about 63, and was buried in Pershore Abbey Pershore Worcestershire England.

   28    ii. Eadgifu of WESSEX [123488] was born about 920 in Wessex England and died on 28 Oct 951 in France aged about 31.

+ 29    iii. King Edmund I "the Magnificent" of WESSEX of the English [123469] was born about 923 in Wessex England and died on 26 May 946 in Pucklechurch Gloucestershire England aged about 23.

   30    iv. King Eadred of WESSEX of the English [123489] was born about 924 in Wessex England and died on 23 Nov 955 in Frome Somerset England aged about 31.