Ælfflæd
- Marriage (1): Edward "The Elder" OF WESSEX , King of the Anglo-Saxons about 899
General Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lffl%C3%A6d_(wife_of_Edward_the_Elder)
Ælfflæd was the daughter of an ealdorman Æthelhelm, probably ealdorman Æthelhelm of Wiltshire who died in 897. Genealogist David H. Kelley and historian Pauline Stafford have identified him as Æthelhelm, a son of Edward's uncle, King Æthelred of Wessex. Other historians have rejected the idea, arguing that it does not appear to have been the practice for Æthelings (princes of the royal dynasty who were eligible to be king) to become ealdormen, that in a grant from King Alfred to Ealdorman Æthelhelm there is no reference to kinship between them, and that the hostile reception to King Eadwig's marriage to Ælfgifu, his third cousin once removed, shows that a marriage between Edward and his first cousin once removed would have been forbidden as incestuous.
Ælfflæd married Edward "The Elder" OF WESSEX , King of the Anglo-Saxons, son of Alfred "The Great" OF WESSEX and Ealhswith of Mercia, about 899. (Edward "The Elder" OF WESSEX , King of the Anglo-Saxons was born about 874 and died on 17 Jul 924 in Farndon, Cheshire, England.)
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