| 词条 | Ealhswith |
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| name = Ealhswith | image =Queen Ealhswith.png | succession = | caption = | reign = 23 April 871 – 26 October 899 | spouse = Alfred, King of Wessex | issue = Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians Edward, King of England Æthelgifu Æthelweard of Wessex Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders | house = | father = Æthelred Mucel | mother = Eadburh | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 902 | place of burial = New Minster, Winchester | occupation = |}}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, and according to the historian Cyril Hart she was a descendant of King Coenwulf of Mercia.[1] She is commemorated as a saint in the Christian East and the West on 20 July.[2] LifeShe was married to Alfred in 868 at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. His elder brother Æthelred was then king, and Alfred was regarded as heir apparent.[3][4] The Danes occupied the Mercian town of Nottingham in that year, and the marriage was probably connected with an alliance between Wessex and Mercia.[5] Alfred became king on his brother's death in 871. Ealhswith is very obscure in contemporary sources. She did not witness any known charters, and Asser did not even mention her name in his life of King Alfred. In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen. According to King Alfred, this was because of the infamous conduct of a former queen of Wessex called Eadburh, who had accidentally poisoned her husband.[6] Alfred left his wife three important symbolic estates in his will, Edington in Wiltshire, the site of one important victory over the Vikings, Lambourn in Berkshire, which was near another, and Wantage, his birthplace. These were all part of his bookland, and they stayed in royal possession after her death.[4] It was probably after Alfred's death in 899 that Ealhswith founded the convent of St Mary's Abbey, Winchester, known as the Nunnaminster. She died on 5 December 902, and was buried in her son Edward's new Benedictine abbey, the New Minster, Winchester. She is commemorated in two early tenth century manuscripts as "the true and dear lady of the English".[4] Ealhswith had a brother called Æthelwulf,[4] who was ealdorman of western and possibly central Mercia under his niece's husband, Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, in the 890s.[7] He died in 901.[8] ChildrenAlfred and Ealhswith had five children who survived to adulthood.[4]
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References1. ^Keynes & Lapidge, Asser, pp. 77; 240–41; Hart, Æthelstan, p. 116 n. 2. ^http://catholicsaints.info/saint-elswith, http://www.antiochian.org/node/19095 3. ^Keynes & Lapidge, Asser, p. 77 4. ^1 2 3 4 Costambeys, Ealhswith 5. ^Williams, Ealhswith 6. ^Keynes & Lapidge Asser, pp. 71–72, 235–236 7. ^Hart, Æthelstan, p. 116 8. ^{{PASE|8246|Æthelwulf 21}} Sources
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