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Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England 1025–1086 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1025

Birth Location: Wessex, England

Death Date: 1086

Death Location: Bishops Stortford, Herefordshire, England

Father: Alfgar Mercia

Mother: Elfgifu Wessex

Spouse(s): Harold England, Gruffydd of)

Children(s): Gytha Wessex, Nest Gruffydd, Maredudd Seisyll, Idwal Seisyll

The story of Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England began in 1025 in Wessex, England. Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England married Gruffydd Ap Llewelyn Prince Of Gwynedd Powys Wales Ap Son Of, Harold Ii Godwinson Last Anglo Saxon King Of England, and had children including Gytha Gyda Haraldsdatter House Of Godwin Of Wessex, Idwal Ap Seisyll, Maredudd Ap Seisyll, Nest Verch Gruffydd. Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England passed away in 1086 in Bishops Stortford, Herefordshire, England.

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Biography

  • The story of Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England began in 1025 in Wessex, England.
  • Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England married Gruffydd Ap Llewelyn Prince Of Gwynedd Powys Wales Ap Son Of, Harold Ii Godwinson Last Anglo Saxon King Of England, and had children including Gytha Gyda Haraldsdatter House Of Godwin Of Wessex, Idwal Ap Seisyll, Maredudd Ap Seisyll, Nest Verch Gruffydd.
  • Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England passed away in 1086 in Bishops Stortford, Herefordshire, England.

Immediate Family

Parents

Alfgar Mercia
1002–1059
Birth Location: Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, Mercia, England
AM
Elfgifu Wessex
–1054
Birth Location: Wessex, England
EW

Spouses(s)

Harold England
1001–1066
Birth Location: Anglo Saxon Wessex Kingdom, England
HE
Gruffydd of)
1011–1063
Birth Location: Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales (Cymru)
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Children(s)

Gytha Wessex
1053–1107
Birth Location: London, Middlesex, England
GW
Nest Gruffydd
1059–1153
Birth Location: Rhuddlan (Flintshire) Wales
NG
Maredudd Seisyll
–1069
Birth Location: –
MS
Idwal Seisyll
–1069
Birth Location: –
IS

Ealdgyth England's Ancestors

Self
Ealdgyth England
1025–1086
Birth Place: Wessex, England
Parents
Alfgar Ælfgar III, Gruffydd Malet, 7th Earl of Leicester, Earl of East Anglia, Duke of Mercia
1002–1059
Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, Mercia, England
Elfgifu (Aelgifu Princess of) Wessex
–1054
Wessex, England
Grandparents
Leofric (Leofwine III, The Great Earl of Mercia, Lord of) Coventry
–1057
Saxe, Mercia, Leicestershire, England
Godgifu ("Lady Godiva" de Lincoln de Mercia (Old English: Godgifu = god gift), rode naked thru streets of Coventry to gain a remission of oppressive) taxation
–1057
Coventry, Mercia, Anglo-Saxon England
Æthelred (II the Unready Mucel, King of England, ordered St. Brice's Day massacre of Danish settlers, following 991 Battle of Maldon, Æthelred paid) tribute
–1016
Wessex Kingdom, Anglo Saxon, England
Ælfgifu (AElfleda of York) Thoreddottir
–1002
Wessex, England
Great-Grandparents
Leofwine Devonshire
–1028
Alwara Mercia
–1030
Thorold Mercia
–1041
Lady Malet
–1000
Edgar England
Aelfthryth England
–1000
Thored England
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Edulph Devonshire
Aelfwyn Lady
–1000
Edmund England
Ælfgifu Shaftesbury

Ealdgyth England's Descendants

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Ealdgyth (Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of) England (1025–1086) m. Harold (II Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon King of) England (Abt. 1001–14 Oct 1066) m. Gruffydd (ap Llewelyn, Prince of Gwynedd & Powys, Wales, (ap = son) of) (1011–5 Aug 1063)
  1. 1. Gytha (Gyda Haraldsdatter House of Godwin, of) Wessex 1053–1107 m. Vladimir (II Monomakh Vsevolodovich Rurik dynasty, Grand Prince Of Kievan) Rus 1053–1125
    1. 1. Yuri ((Georg) I Dolgoruki "Long Arms" Vladimirovich Rurik Dynasty, Grand Duke of) Kiev 1091–1157 m. Helena (Elena Komnenos, Princess of) Byzantium 1095–1183 m. Anna (Acrovna) Kumans 1092–1124
      1. 1. Vsevolod (III "The Big Nest" Yuryevich, Rurik Dynasty, Grand Prince of) Vladimir 1154–1212 m. Mariya (Marfa Shvarnovna, Saint of) Ossetia 1156–1205
        1. 1. Yaroslav (II Fedor Vsevolodovich, Rurik House, Grand Prince of) Vladimir-Kiev 1191–1246 m. Theodosia (Fedosia) Igorevna 1194–1230
        2. 2. Konstanin (of) Rostov 1186–1218
        3. 3. Yurii (Lurii) Rostov 1189–1238
        4. 4. Yaroslav (II) Vladimir 1191–1246
      2. 2. Olga (Youriévna de) Rurikide –1181
    2. 2. Roman Vladimyrovich –1119
    3. 3. Mstislav (I, Vladimirovich Harald, Rurik Dynasty, 11th Grand Prince of) Kiev 1076–1132 m. Christina (Ingesdotter of Sweden, Swedish princess, Grand Duchess of) Kiev 1080–1122
      1. 1. Eupraxia (Rurik) Dynasty, 1130–1186 m. Geza (II Árpád dynasty, King of Hungary, King of Croatia, Dalmatia &) Rama 1130–1162
        1. 1. Bela (III Árpád dynasty, King of Hungary & Croatia, DNA match per) MyTrueAncestry.com 1148–1196 m. Marguerite ('Margaret of France' Capet ( Árpád), Queen of England and) Hungary 1157–1197 m. Agnes (de Châtillon, Queen Consort of Hungary, 2nd wife, Countess of Antioch, Holy) Land 1154–1184
        2. 2. Elisabeth (Arpad Dynasty, Duchess of Bohemia, Princess of) Hungary 1149–1189 m. Fredericke (Přemyslid dynasty de Bohemia, Duke of Bohemia &) Olomouc 1140–1189
        3. 3. Helena (Ilona of Hungary de Arpad, Duchess of) Austria 1158–1199 m. Leopold (V Von Babenberg, Duke of Austria, The Virtuous; 3rd Crusade: Siege of) Acre 1157–1194
        4. 4. Stephen (III Árpád dynasty, King of Hungary, Croatia, &) Dalmatia 1147–1172 m. Agnes (of) Austria 1154–1182
      2. 2. Ingeborg (Mstislavna, Rurik Dynasty, Ruthenian) princess 1100–1130 m. Knud ((Canute) Lavard Estriden, Danish prince, duke &) Saint 1096–1131
        1. 1. Valdemar (Waldemar I 'The Great' Estridsen, King of) Denmark 1131–1182 m. Sophia (Vladimirovna Rurikide of Novgorad & Minsk, Queen of) Denmark 1140–1198
      3. 3. Rostislaw (I Michael van) Nowgorod 1110–1168
      4. 4. Iziaslav (II of Kiev, Grand Prince of Kiev, Prince of Pereyaslav, Turov, Rostov, Volhynia & Pereyaslavi, progenitor of the Monomakhovychi Volhynian) br 1096–1154 m. Gertrude (Agnes von Hohenstaufen, Grand Princess of Kiev, Princess of Germany, Princess of Holy Roman) Empire 1110–1151
        1. 1. Yaroslav (II John Iziaslavich Rurik dynasty, Grand Prince of Kiev, Prince of Turov, Novgorod &) Lutsk 1132–1180 m. Richeza (Vladislava de Bohemia, Princess of Czech, Grand Princess of) Kiev 1135–
        2. 2. Eudoxia (Izlaslavna, Princess of Kiev; High Duchess Consort of Poland; Duchess of Greater) Poland 1131–1187 m. Mieszko (III 'The Old' de Piast, High Duke of Poland (1173-), Duke of Greater Poland) (1138-death) 1126–1202
      5. 5. Malmfred (Rurik Dynasty, Russian princess and a medieval Norwegian and Danish queen) consort 1095–1137 m. Eric (II 'the Memorable' Estridsen, king of Denmark, illegitimate) son 1090–1137 m. Sigurd (I 'The Crusader' Magnusson Hardrada house, King of Norway, expedition with King Magnus III to Orkney Islands, 1st Norwegian-led Crusade to Jerusalem) 1107 1090–1130
        1. 1. Kristin (Sigurdsdatter, Norwegian) princess 1125–1178
        2. 2. Magnus (IV 'the Blind' Sigurdsson, House of Hardrada, King of Norway (illegitimate), Uncle Harald Gille had him blinded, castrated, one leg cut off, imprisoned at Nidarholm) Abbey 1115–1139 m. Christina (of) Denmark 1119–1139
  2. 2. Nest (Verch) Gruffydd 1059–1153 m. Osbern (Scrope FitzRichard, Sheriff of) Hereford 1055–1110 m. Osborn (Fitz) Richard 1055–1100
    1. 1. Simon Scrope 1056–1079
      1. 1. Walter (le) Scrope 1080–1107
        1. 1. Hugh (le Scrope, (Scrope: old Anglo-Norman word for) crab) 1103–1149
    2. 2. Nesta Fitzrichard 1079–
  3. 3. Maredudd (ap) Seisyll –1069
  4. 4. Idwal (ap) Seisyll –1069

Ealdgyth England's Timeline

4 Records

1025
1025
Birth of Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England in Wessex, England
Wessex, England
1034
1034
Age 9
Birth of Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England in Anglo-Saxon Mercia, England
Anglo-Saxon Mercia, England
1080
1080
Age 55
Death of Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England in Cheshire, England
Cheshire, England
1086
1086
Age 61
Death of Ealdgyth Edith "Fair Swan Neck," Queen of England in Bishops Stortford, Herefordshire, England
Bishops Stortford, Herefordshire, England

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1034
    Event Place: Anglo-Saxon Mercia, England
    Record Source:
    [1] Millennium File
    [2] Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Place: Anglo Saxon Mercia, England

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1025
    Event Place: Wessex, England

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1080
    Event Place: Cheshire, England
    Record Source:
    [1] Millennium File
    [2] Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1086
    Event Place: Bishops Stortford, Herefordshire, England
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