Queen of England Wessex Ealhswyth of Mercia, I

842 - 905  (63 years)

• Name	Ealhswyth of Mercia  [1]
  Title	Queen of England Wessex
  Suffix	I
  Birth	842	Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	5 Dec 905	Winchester, Hampshire, England
  	buried in St. Mary's Abbey, Winchester, Hampshire
  Person ID	I10796	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Ethelred Gainai,   b. England d. England
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Eadburh Fadburn,   b. England d. England
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2970	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	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)
  Marriage	868  [2]
  Children	1. Countess of Flanders Elfrida of England,   b. 877, England d. 6 Jul 929, Belgium (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. King of the Anglo-Saxons Edward of Wessex, the Elder,   b. 874, England d. 17 Jul 924, Faringdon, Berkshire, England (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 842 - Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England Death - 5 Dec 905 - Winchester, Hampshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Old World

  _Ealhswith Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucel, Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family. Ealhswith is commemorated as a saint in the Christian East and the West on…

  
  

• 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