Queen Alfgifu Gunnarsson ENGLAND
- Born: Abt 968-970, , Wessex, England
- Married: Abt 980-985, , Wessex, England
- Died: 1002
 Other names for Alfgifu were Aelfgifu, Aelflaed, Elfgiva, Elfflaed, Elgifa, ENGLAND Queen, Elfleda and Elfreda.
Ancestral File Number: 9HMF-K1. User ID: 2420445257.
General Notes:
Queen of ENGLAND.
BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p85: "364U Etheldred (sic) II, King of England, (S of 352, F of 373); married Elgifa."
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Aethelred II The Unready (Unraed= without counsel) King of England978-Deposed 1013, 1014- Died 1016, Mar =1 Aelfgifu Died 1002 Daughter of Thored or Daughter of Ealdorman Aethelbert, =2 Emma Daughter of Richard I Duke of Normandy =ii Canute."
The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes, Elizabeth Longford, 1991, Oxford Univ Press, pxviii: "Saxons and Danes Genealogy: Aethelred II mar (1) Aelfgifu."
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, 1975, Alfred Knopf, p25: "Elfreda (Elgifu), mar (1) Ethelred II the Unready..."
A History of the English Speaking People Winston S Churchill Vol I The Birth of Britain Dodd Mead & Co 1956 p133 "House of Wessex...(1) Elfflaed mar Ethelred II the Unready mar (2) Emma of Normandy..."
ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.11 9HMF-K1, 8HS0-DT, B19R-6J.
Marriage Information:
Alfgifu married King Ethelred ENGLAND, II, son of King Edgar ENGLAND and Queen Elfthryth ENGLAND, about 980-985 in , Wessex, England. (King Ethelred ENGLAND, II was born about 965-968 in , Wessex, England, died on 23 Apr 1016 in London, Middlesex, England and was buried in St Pauls, London, Middlesex, England.)
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