Countess of Flanders Elfrida of England

877 - 929  (52 years)

• Name	Elfrida of England  [1]
  Title	Countess of Flanders
  Birth	877	England
  	Wessex, England
  Gender	Female
  Kinfolk of Note	Direct Ancestor of Lawrence Adolph Twomey
  Death	6 Jul 929	Belgium
  Burial	Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
  	(St Peters Abbey)
  Person ID	I10363	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	King of the Anglo-Saxons Alfred of Wessex,   b. 9 May 849, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 26 Oct 899, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 50 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Queen of England Wessex Ealhswyth of Mercia, I,   b. 842, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England d. 5 Dec 905, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	868  [2]
  Family ID	F3885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Baldwin de Flanders, II,   b. 865, Belgium d. 10 Sep 918, Belgium (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	Abt 893	England
  	Wessex, England
  Marriage End	918
  	Death of Baldwin
  Children	1. Arnoul de Flanders,   b. Belgium d. 27 Mar, Belgium  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3749	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 877 - England Marriage - Abt 893 - England Burial - - Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Old World		_Aelfthryth Ælfthryth of Wessex (c. 877 – 7 June 929), also known as Elftrudis (Elftrude, Elfrida), was an English princess and a countess consort of Flanders to Baldwin II. She was the youngest daughter of Alfred the Great, the Saxon King of England and his wife Ealhswith. Her siblings included King Edward the Elder and Æthelflæd. Between 893 and 899,…
  		_Elfrida of Wessex Ælfthryth of Wessex (c. 877 – 7 June 929), also known as Elftrudis (Elftrude, Elfrida), was an English princess and a countess consort of Flanders to Baldwin II. She was the youngest daughter of Alfred the Great, the Saxon King of England and his wife Ealhswith. Her siblings included King Edward the Elder and Æthelflæd.

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S1058] Wikipedia: Alfred the Great, (Name: Wikipedia;), Alfred the Great. Alfred the Great (alt. Ælfred; 848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and Æthelred, reigned in turn before him. Under Alfred's rule, considerable administrative and military reforms were introduced, prompting lasting change in England.[2] After ascending the throne, Alfred spent several years fighting Viking invasions. He won a decisive victory in the Battle of Edington in 878 and made an agreement with the Vikings, dividing England between Anglo-Saxon territory and the Viking-ruled Danelaw, composed of Scandinavian York, the north-east Midlands and East Anglia. Alfred also oversaw the conversion of Viking leader Guthrum to Christianity. He defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, becoming the dominant ruler in England.[3] Alfred began styling himself as "King of the Anglo-Saxons" after reoccupying London from the Vikings. Details of his life are described in a work by 9th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser. Alfred had a reputation as a learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education, proposing that primary education be conducted in English, rather than Latin, and improving the legal system and military structure and his people's quality of life. He was given the epithet "the Great" in the 16th century and is only one of two English monarchs, alongside Cnut the Great, to be labelled as such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great