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Edward the Elder
King of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924)
- Child of Ealhswith and Alfred the Great
- Married to Ecgwynn, Ælfflæd, wife of Edward the Elder, Eadgifu of Kent
- Dated c. June 874 CE – 17 July 924 CE
Monarch of England
king
monarch
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
3 offices on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- 26 October 899 CE – 17 July 924 CE Monarch of England Number 2 in the sequence Succeeded Alfred the Great · Succeeded by Æthelstan
- 26 October 899 CE – 17 July 924 CE king Succeeded Alfred the Great · Succeeded by Ælfweard of Wessex
Family
The family of Edward the Elder
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 27
Family 27
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Alfred the Great king of Wessex (r. 872–901) - child of (child) Ealhswith Anglo Saxon royal consort
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of the house House of Wessex family that initially ruled Wessex kingdom - parent of (child) Ælfgifu Peerage person ID=102452
- parent of (father) Ælfweard of Wessex West Saxon monarch
- parent of (child) Æthelhild daughter of Edward the Elder
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parent of (father) Æthelstan King of Wessex and first king of England (r. 924-939) - parent of (child) Alfred Peerage person ID=102087
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parent of (father) Eadburh of Winchester Anglo-Saxon nun - parent of (child) Eadflæd princess and nun
- parent of (child) Eadgifu Peerage person ID=102438
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parent of (father) Eadgifu of Wessex Queen consort of France -
parent of (father) Eadgyth Queen of Germany from 936 to 946 - parent of (child) Eadhild Anglo-Saxon noble
- parent of (child) Edith of Polesworth Anglo-Saxon abbess
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parent of (father) Edmund I King of England (r. 939–946) -
parent of (father) Edred of England King of England (r. 946–955) - parent of (child) Edwin, son of Edward the Elder Anglo-Saxon prince
- parent of (child) Elfleda (?) Peerage person ID=106623
- parent of (child) Ethelfleda Abbess of Romsey
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sibling of Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders Countess consort of Flanders (877-929) -
sibling of Æthelflæd Mercian monarch - sibling of Æthelgifu Anglo-Saxon abbess
- sibling of Æthelweard Anglo-Saxon nobleman, son of Alfred the Great
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Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
30 statements on this record
- 24 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
- 2 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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