*Edward the Elder "The Unconquered" King of England
born
0870
died 0924 Forndon, Northhamptonshire, England
father:
*Alfred
the Great King of England
born 0849 Wantage, Berkshire, England
died
26 October 0901 Winchester, Hampshire, England
mother:
*Alswitha
(Ealswitha) of Mercia Queen of the Gaini
born 0852
died 0918
siblings:
*Ethelfleda
born about 0869 Wessex, England
died 12 June 0918 Tamworth, St. Peters, Gloucestershire,
England
Edmund
Ethelgifu Abbess of Shaftsbury
Ethelweard
*Elfrida
Princess of England born about 0877 Wessex, England
died 0920
spouse
(1st):
*Ecgwyn of Wessex
married 0893
(end
of information)
children (from 1st marriage):
*St.
Edith (Eadgyth) Princess of England born 0897 Wessex, England died 0937
Alfred
of England
spouse (2nd):
Ælfleda Queen of England
born about
0878 Wessex, England
(sister of *Aethelfrith of Wessex)
children (from
2nd marriage):
Edwin Prince of England born about 0902 Wessex, England
died about 0933
Ethelwerd or Elfwerd Prince of England born about 0900
Wessex, England died about 0924
Ethile (Eadhilde) Princess of England born
about 0908 Wessex, England died 14 September 0937
Elfleda Princess of England
born about 0903 Wessex, England
Ethelhilda Princess of England born about
0906 Wessex, England
spouse(3rd):
*Edgiva of Kent
born 0896
children (from 3rd marriage):
Athelstan King of England
*Alberic
born about 0910
Edred King of England
*Edmund I King of England
born 0922died 26 May 0946
*Editha Princess of
England born about 0910 Wessex, England died 21 January 0947
*Ogive
(Eadgifu) of France born about 0904 Wessex, England died after 0951 born
about 0904 Wessex, England died after 0951
Edred King of England
*Elgiva
Princess of England born 0912 England
biographical and/or anecdotal:
"The
Unconquerored King," was born about 870 and died about 924. He reigned 24 years
from 900 to 924. He was not, like his father, a legislator or a scholar, although
it is said that he founded the University of Cambridge, but he was great warrior.
He gradually extended his sway over the whole island, in which project he was assisted
by his sister the "Lady of Mercia" who headed her own troops and gained
victories over both the Danes and Britons. Tradition assigns to Edward an even wider
rule shortly before his death. In the middle of the ninth century the Picts and the
Scots had been amalgamated under Kenneth MacAlpin, the King of the Scots, just as
Mercia and Wessex were being welded together by the attacks of the Danes. It is said
that in 925 the King of the Scots, together with other northern rulers, chose Edward
"to father and lord." Probably this statement only covers some act of alliance
formed by the English King with King of Scots and other lesser rulers. Nothing was
more natural than that of the Scottish King, Constantine, should wish to obtain the
support of Edward against his enemies; and it is natural that if Edward agreed to
support him he would require some acknowledgment of the superiority of the English
King. After a prosperous reign, King Edward died in Forndon, Northamptonshire in
925. He married Lady Edgiva (Edgina), daughter of Earl Sigelline (Sigilline), Earl
of Meapham. He succeeded his father about 901, and raised the supremacy of Wessex
into something little short of an imperial authority, extending his sway over Mercia,
East Anglia, and Northumbria.
notes or source:
ancestry.com
The Paternal
Ancestry of Homer Beers James
Ogive and Elgiva sound suspisiously the same.
Check
out in future.