Elfthryth of Devonshire, Queen Consort Profile
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- Elfthryth of Devonshire, Queen Consort
- ID: I751
Female .jpg "Illustration - Elfthryth, Wife of Edgar (945-1000)
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Name Elfthryth of Devonshire Alias: ElfridaMarried Edgar I, King of England (943-975) Child + Ethelred II Unready, King of the English (~967-1016) Birth [S188] abt 945 Marriage Edgar I, King of England (943-975) [S188] 965 (2nd marriage)Occupation nun [S187] [S188] 1000 In about 986 she founded Wherwell Abbey as a Benedictine nunnery, and late in life she retired there.Death Wherwell, Hampshire, England [S187] [S188] Nov 17, 1000 55y
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- Elfthryth of Devonshire, Queen Consort
- ID: I751
Source References
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- Elfthryth of Devonshire, Queen Consort
- ID: I751
CommentElfthryth beat her son Ethelred (the Unready) with candles so hard and so often that he had a life-long phobia of them.
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Ethelred II Unready, King of the English (~967-1016)Elfthryth of Devonshire, Queen Consort (~945-1000)
- Last Modified: May 11, 2013
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