ENGLAND, Queen Ealdgyth^{[1, 2]}

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• Name	ENGLAND, Ealdgyth
  Prefix	Queen
  Birth	986	Essex, England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  _TAG	Temple
  Death	30 Nov 1016	Tower Hill, London, England   [2]
  Burial	Dec 1016
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  Person ID	I68698	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	ENGLAND, Morcar ,   b. 960, England Englandd. 1051 (Age 91 years)
  Mother	DE MERCIA, Edgitha ,   b. 960, England Englandd. 1055 (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	Est 994	Essex, England   [3]
  Family ID	F32297	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	ARNGRIMSEN, Sigeferth ,   b. Abt 980, England Englandd. Bef Aug 1015 (Age < 35 years)
  Family ID	F32611	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	ENGLAND, King Edmund II ,   b. 22 Jul 988, Wessex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, Great Britian Wessex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, Great Britiand. 30 Nov 1016, London, Middlesex, England (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	Aug 1015	London, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married London, Middlesex, England.
  Children	2 sons
  + 1. ATHELING, Edward ,   b. 1016, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. 19 Apr 1057, London, Middlesex, England (Age 41 years)   2. ENGLAND, King Edward Atheling III ,   b. 23 Sep 1016, Kingdom of Wessex Kingdom of Wessexd. 19 Apr 1057, London, Middlesex, England (Age 40 years)
  Family ID	F32454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Ealdgyth (circa 992 – after 1016), modern English Edith may have been the name of the wife of Sigeferth son of Earngrim, thegn of the Seven Burghs, and later of King Edmund Ironside. She was probably the mother of Edmund's sons Edward the Exile and Edmund Ætheling. Ealdgyth Queen consort of England Tenure 23 April 1016 – 30 November 1016 Born c. 992 Died After 1016 Spouse(s) Sigeferth Edmund, King of England Issue Edward the Exile Edmund Ætheling The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Sigeferth and his brother Morcar, described as "foremost thegns of the Seven Burghs" were killed at an assembly of the English nobility at Oxford. Ealdorm an Eadric Streona is said to have killed them "dishonourably" after having invited them to his rooms. The Seven Burghs, otherwise unknown, are presumed to have been the Five Burghs and Torksey and York. Following the killings, King Æthelred the Unready had the property of Sigeferth and Morcar seized and ordered that Sigeferth's widow, whose name the Chronicle does not record, should be detained at Malmesbury Abbey. The chronicle of John of Worcester calls her Ealdgyth.[1] In the late summer of 1015, at some time between 15 August and 8 September, Edmund Ironside raised a revolt against his father King Æthelred. Either then, or perhaps even earlier, he removed Sigeferth's widow from Malmesbury, against his father's wishes, and married her. Sigeferth and Morcar's friends and allies supported Edmund after this.[2] While two charters issued by Edmund which mention his wife survive from about this time, neither of them contain her name in the surviving texts.[3] It is generally, but not universally, supposed that Ealdgyth, if that was her name, was the mother of Edmund Ironside's sons.[4] These were Edmund, who died young in exile, and Edward the Exile, who returned to England late in the reign of his uncle King Edward the Confessor and died soon afterwards. Whether she went into exile with her children following Edmund's death in 1016 is unknown. One reason advanced for supposing that John of Worcester may have been mistaken in naming this woman Ealdgyth is that Sigeferth's brother Morcar had also been married to a woman named Ealdgyth.[5] This Ealdgyth was the daughter of Ælfthryth, and niece of Ælfhelm, Ealdorman of York and Wulfric Spot. While Ealdgyth is a common female name in the period, this coincidence has raised the suspicion that the Worcester chronicler has confused Sigeferth's widow with his sister-in-law.[6] Notes 1. Stafford, Unification and Conquest, pp. 67–68; Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, pp. 145–146, Ms. E, s.a. 1015, & p. 146, note 3; Williams, Æthelred, pp. 132–134 & p. 132, note 6. 2. Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 146, Ms. E, s.a. 1015; Higham, Death of Anglo-Saxon England, p. 62; Williams, Æthelred, p. 134. 3. These are charters S 947 and S 948; Williams, Æthelred, p. 134 & note 13. 4. For dissent from the common view, see Howard, Ian (2003), Swein Forkbeard's Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991–1017, Woodbridge: Boydell, p. 69, ISBN 0-85115-928-1. 5. “Ealdgyth 1". Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. 6. Williams, Æthelred, p. 132, note 6. Insley References Higham, Nick (1997), The Death of Anglo-Saxon England, Stroud: Sutton, ISBN 0-7509-2469-1 Insley, Charles (2000), "Politics, Conflict and Kinship in Early Eleventh-Century Mercia" (PDF), Midland History, XXV[dead link] Stafford, Pauline (1989), Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, London: Edward Arnold, ISBN 0-7131-6532-4 Stenton, Frank (1971), Anglo-Saxon England (3rd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280139-2 Swanton, Michael (1996), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-92129-5 Williams, Ann (2003), Æthelred the Unready: the ill-counselled king, London: Hambledon & London, ISBN 1-85285-382-4

  
  

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  [S985] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S983] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S984] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Morcar Of ENGLAND; Male; Spouse: Edgitha Of ENGLAND; Marriage: < 0994> ; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 25 Sep 2004