Queen Ealdgyth ENGLAND

   Other names for Ealdgyth were ENGLAND Queen, DENMARK Lady, Algitha and Eldyth.

   Ancestral File Number: 8HS0-G6. User ID: 605111837.

   General Notes:

Lady of DENMARK, Queen of ENGLAND

BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p81: "373U Edmund II, King of England, `Ironsides', (S of 364, F of 385); married Lady Algitha of Denmark."

Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990:"Edmund II Ironside King of England Apr-Nov 1016 Son of Aethelred II King of England and Aelfgifu, Mar = (2) Ealdgyth widow of Sigeferth Died Nov 1016."

The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes, Elizabeth Longford, 1991, Oxford Univ Press, pxviii:"Saxons and Danes Genealogy: Edmund II Ironside mar Algitha."

The New Columbia Encyclopedia, 1975, p833, Edmund Ironside: "Died 1016, King of the English (1016), son of Aethelred the Unready. Contrary to the wishes of his father, he married (1015) the widow of Siferth, a Danish thane, and was accepted as ruler of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol III, p792, Edmund I: "Edmund defied his father's orders by marrying (1015) the widowof one of the Danish lords then occupying English territory."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8HS0-G6 and 91QS-S3 Ealdgyth or Algitha, 9160-M8 and 9HMF-FB Eldgyth Born Abt 995, and B19R-2T Eldgyth Born Abt 986, OBRA Elgitha.

   Marriage Information:

Ealdgyth married Thane Siferth DENMARK. (Thane Siferth DENMARK was born in , , Denmark and died about 1015 in , , England.)

   Marriage Information:

Ealdgyth also married King Edmund ENGLAND, II, son of King Ethelred ENGLAND, II and Queen Alfgifu Gunnarsson ENGLAND, about Aug 1015 in London, Middlesex, England. (King Edmund ENGLAND, II was born about 984-993 in , Wessex, England, died on 30 Nov 1016 in London, Middlesex, England and was buried in Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England.)