Ælfthryth of Devon Queen Of England

   Other names for Ælfthryth were Elfrida, Queen of England and Elfthryth, Queen of England.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition,, 1:17, Edgar, "the Peaceful," King of England, 959-975, m. as his second wife, Ælfthryth, daughter of Ealdorman Ordgar of Devon. They were the parents of Æthelred II, "the Redeless," King of England. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Ælfthryth.
Ælfthryth was the second or third wife of Edgar, King of England, and mother of Æthelred "the Unready." She is given credit for killing her step son King Edward "the Martyr."

Ælfthryth was the daughter of Ealdorman Ordgar. Her mother was a member of the royal family of Wessex. The family's power lay in the west of Wessex. Ordgar was buried in Exeter and his son Ordwulf founded, or refounded, Tavistock Abbey.

Ælfthryth married Edgar "The Peaceable" King of England, son of Edmund I "The Magnificent," King of Wessex and Saint Ælfgifu Queen of England, in 964 in Wessex, England ¹⁶⁰.^,851 (Edgar "The Peaceable" King of England was born about 943/944 in Wessex, England,⁸⁵¹ died on 8 Jul 975 in Winchester, Hampshire, England ^470,851 and was buried in Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, Somerset, England ⁴⁷⁰.)