EALHSWITH

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 36 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Queen Consort of the Anglo-Saxons

married GREAT, King of Wessex Alfred the in 868. Alfred (son of AETHELWULF King of Wessex and Living) was born in 849 in Oxfordshire, England; died on 26 Oct 899 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; was buried in Hyde Abbey, Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. WESSEX, Elftrudis of was born in 877; died on 7 Jun 929.
2. EDWARD was born in 874; died on 17 Jul 924.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: An Anglo-Saxon noble from Mercia, who was the father of Ealhswith the wife of Alfred the Great. He is described by Asser as ealdorman of the Gaini, after whom Gainsborough in Lincolnshire is believed to be named.
• Relation to Me: 36 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Ealdorman of the Gaini
• Name: Æthelred "Mucel"

Notes:

The Gaini were an Anglo-Saxon tribe which occupied part of the kingdom of Mercia

The Gaini are only recorded in Asser's life of King Alfred the Great, written in 893, which stated that in 868, before he became king, Alfred married Ealhswith, daughter of Æthelred, known as Mucel, ealdorman of the Gaini.

Ealhswith's brother, Æthelwulf, was a sub-ealdorman under Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians at the end of the ninth century, controlling western and possibly central Mercia.

Aethelred + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]