Ealdgyth De Taillebois Queen Of ENGLAND

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• Name: Ealdgyth Queen Of ENGLAND
• _UID: AB48CF5DBC084B8E997360C00A9C7B737C59

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Ealdgyth married Gruffydd Ap LLEWELYN, Prince Of Wales about 1058. Gruffydd (son of Llywelyn Ap SEISYLL, Prince Of North Wales and Angharad Verch MAREDUDD) was born in 1011 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales; died on 5 Aug 1063 in Slain; was buried in King Of Gwynedd & Powys (1039), And Deheubarth (1055). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Maredudd Ap GRUFFUDD was born about 1055 in Of, Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales; died in 1069.
2. Idwal Ap GRUFFUDD was born about 1057 in Of, Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales; died in 1069.
3. Ann Verch GRUFFUDD was born about 1058 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales; and died.
4. Nesta Verch GRUFFUDD was born about 1061 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales; died in 1153.

Ealdgyth married Harold II Godwinson "The Saxon" King Of ENGLAND about 1064 in 2ND Husband, 2ND Wife. Harold was born about 1022 in Sussex, England; died on 14 Oct 1066 in Battle Of Hastings, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GJNH-M3W
• Name: Alfgar III Earl Of MERCIA
• Name: The Saxon
• _UID: 0A7144EA242B4F9C92F0CE712B7DB2BBB95F
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1002; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: Bef 1030; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1059; Alt. Death

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Aelfgar, of age 1051, d. shortly after 1062, Earl of East Anglia 1053, Earl of Mercia 1057, banished 1058; m. Aelfgifu, by whom 3 known sons: Eadwine, Morkere, and Burchard, whose issue are unknown, and a daughter Aldgyth [as well as Edith or Aldgyth]. [Ancestral Roots, Line 176a-3]

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The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 22 Jun 1999, by Leo van de Pas:

The son of Leofric and Godiva :

Alfgar "the Saxon", Earl of Mercia, died circa 1059/1062 was married to Elfgifu, daughter of Sigeferth and Ealdgyth. In 1055, he was forced to seek the protection of Gruffyd in Wales, in that year Gruffyd and Alfgar burned down St.Aethelbert's minster and all the town of Hereford.

In 1058 Alfgar, without having given reason, was outlawed, and went to Ireland and Wales where he got himself a great band and then travelled to Hereford. After a violent battle Alfgar was reinstated and given back all that had earlier been taken from him.

Alfgar and Elfgifu are the parents of :

1.Edwin

2.Morcar

3.Ealdgyth of Mercia married (1) circa 1056 Gruffyd ap Llywelyn, King of Deheubarth 1044-1063, son of Llywelyn ap Seiswill, King of Deheubarth and Gwynedd, and Angharad of Wales

Alt. Birth:
Chester, Cheshire, England (Mercia)

Alt. Birth:
Mercia, England

Alt. Death:
Mercia, England

Alfgar married Elfgifu Princess Of ENGLAND. Elfgifu (daughter of Ethelred II "The Unready" King Of ENGLAND and Alfgifu (Aelflaed) Queen Of ENGLAND) was born about 997 in Wessex, England; died after 1040. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 8XQ8-94
• Name: Aelfgifu Of WESSEX
• Name: Elgiva ENGLAND
• _UID: F6E6AE616FDB48998CD3A7F017DFC721EA80
• Alt. Birth: Abt 989; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: Abt 997; Alt. Birth

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Source: lorenfamily.com

Relationship (J,M&L):
31st Great-grandparent

Alt. Birth:
Wessex, England

Alt. Birth:
, Wessex, England

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• AFN: 8XQ9-37
• FamilySearch ID: GJMM-DGX
• Name: Leofric III Of MERCIA
• _UID: 8129C8BDED8C43428113EB2DE2AFF7C7284A
• Alt. Birth: 14 May 968; Alt. Birth

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Bef 1032 - became Earl of Mercia. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Alt. Birth:
Chester, Cheshire, England (Mercia)

Leofric married Godiva Of COVENTRY, Lady Godiva before 1030. Godiva (daughter of Thorold Of COVENTRY) was born about 1010 in Buckinghamshire, England; died after 1086 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (Mercia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GJNH-MJT
• Name: Godiva Of BUCKINGHAM
• Name: Godiva Of MERCIA
• _UID: 3CC65A28070E400C8698538FA5FA108D216C
• Alt. Birth: Abt 980; Alt. Birth

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This is the famous Lady Godiva. She complained constantly to her husband that the taxes were too high on the townspeople of Coventry. He finally said that he would reduce the taxes if she would ride nude through the marketplace on market day. She arranged for all of the men to remain inside and covered her entire body, except her legs, with her hair. Supposedly one person named Tom did not remain inside during her ride and became known as "Peeping Tom". Leofric eliminated all taxes, except for one on horses. During Edward I's reign, a check was made and the only tax in Coventry was one on horses. Since 1678 the town of Coventry still celebrates the ride during its annual fair.

Concerning her dates of birth and death. I originally had 980-1067, but this was not in agreement with Ancestral Roots line 176a-2, which has her birth at c1010 and her marriage at c1030. Nor was it consistant with the Encyclopedia Britannica which had Godiva fl. 1040-1080. However the 980 birth date was consistant with her gr grandaughter Nesta b. c1055/7, dau of Edith, dau of Aelfgar, son of Godiva. With some serious scrunching of dates I could conceive of:

Godiva b. 1010 (originally 980)
Aelfgar b. 1025 (originally 1002)
Edith b. 1041 (originally 1030)
Nesta b. 1057

with two other daughters of Leofric born to a "first wife or mistress". It is physically possible for 3 generations in a row born at the 15/16th year of their parents life (however unlikely), so that is what I have done.

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Curt Hofemann, [email protected], e-mailed:

Hi Jim,
You may want to adjust the date of death [of Godiva, which at the time was 10 Sep 1067]]
Warwickshire - the Domesday Book in 1086

Perhaps one of the most famous early personalities of the period was Lady Godiva (Godwa or Godgifu) who allegedly rode naked the streets of Coventry in Warwickshire as a protest against her husband's high taxes on the people of the city. This husband, Earl Leofric, a Saxon Earl of Mercia, died an old man in 1057, nine years before the Norman Conquest. They seemingly had issue, at least one daughter, who married into the Malet family. 29 years after her husband's death, Lady (Countess) Godiva held many estates in Warwickshire, including Coventry, as revealed by the Domesday Book in 1086. Chronologically, either Leofric had married a child bride, or Lady Godivawas a very old woman at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086. The former is the most likely. The lordships bestowed on Lady Godiva in Warwickshire by William the Conqueror in 1066 were considerable, probably the result of an alliance struck either with Leofric or Lady Godiva before the Conquest. Since, Lady Godiva was a wealthy woman in 1057, and still wealthy after the Conquest, it is not likely she displayed herself in protest after that date, since she would have been protesting her own taxation. She apparently inherited her lands and titles in 1057. Therefore, the event in question probably took place, if at all, several years before 1057, when, young and innocent, the impatient and passionate Lady Godiva, appalled by her aging husband's despotic ways, leapt on her nag and took to the streets of Coventry in all her naked glory, perhaps too young to realize that within a few short years she would be in full control of all the taxation of her husband's considerable holdings at the time of his death, holdings which she carried through to at least 1086. [Ref: ]

Also the Encyclop?dia Britannica lists "fl. c. 1040, -80"

Other refs:
aka: Gogdifu [Dict of Brit History p153-4, Ency Britannica]

Godiva's ancestry is uncertain, but she was evidently of an old, noble family. [Ref: Weis AR7 176A]

sister of Thorold of Buckingham, sheriff of Lincs [Ref: Weis AR7 176A, Watney 673] Turold the Sheriff [Ref: KeatsRohan Lucy]

Regards,
Curt

Alt. Birth:
Coventry, England

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• AFN: B19R-5C
• Name: Aethelred II "The Unready" Of WESSEX
• Name: The Unready
• _UID: 41EC8E7EDABD4F20A2C61747ACB386F3DDCA

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Ethelred, the younger son of Edgar, became king at the age of seven following the murder of his half-brother Edward II in 978 at Corfe Castle, Dorset, by Edward's own supporters.

For the rest of Ethelred's rule (reigned 978-1016), his brother became a posthumous rallying point for political unrest; a hostile Church transformed Edward into a royal martyr. Known as the Un-raed or 'Unready' (meaning 'no counsel', or that he was unwise), Ethelred failed to win or retain the allegiance of many of his subjects. In 1002, he ordered the massacre of all Danes in England to eliminate potential treachery.

Not being an able soldier, Ethelred defended the country against increasingly rapacious Viking raids from the 980s onwards by diplomatic alliance with the duke of Normandy in 991 (he later married the duke's daughter Emma) and by buying off renewed attacks by the Danes with money levied through a tax called the Danegeld. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1006 was dismissive: 'in spite of it all, the Danish army went about as it pleased'. By 1012, 48,000 pounds of silver was being paid in Danegeld to Danes camped in London.

In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy when the powerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. Ethelred returned to rule after Sweyn's death in 1014, but died himself in 1016.


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Relationship (J,M&L):
32nd Great-grandparent

Ethelred married Alfgifu (Aelflaed) Queen Of ENGLAND about 985 in Of, Wessex, England. Alfgifu (daughter of Thored Ealderman GUNNARSSON) was born about 968 in Of, Wessex, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: GS4H-MV
• _UID: 88A63A5A0EFF4B01992F60683773FA035211

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Relationship (J,M&L):
32nd Great-grandparent

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• FamilySearch ID: GJ6F-86Y
• Name: Earl Of Mercia LEOFWINE
• Name: Leofwine Of MERCIA
• _UID: D28CA44A4E0540E9BF51C91B6D5AEF8BFD35
• Alt. Birth: Abt 950; Alt. Birth

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Alt. Birth:
Mercia, England

Leofwine married Alwara ATHELSTANSDOTTIR. Alwara was born in 955 in Mercia, England; died in 979 in Mercia, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GJ6F-ZYR
• Name: Alwara
• Name: Alwara MANNESSON
• Name: Countess Of Mercia ALWARA
• _UID: C8A367E1D2904AA887EC65F2005F34FF6338
• Alt. Birth: Abt 955; Alt. Birth

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• FamilySearch ID: GJNH-SWL
• _UID: 38AFF12CE53F4FAE9784E5E3687BD61FE0CD

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• AFN: GS4H-P7
• Name: Edgar "The PEACABLE"
• Name: The Peacable
• _UID: F5A624911EF14971A6590C8BB4138AB8B868

Notes:

Edgar, king in Mercia and the Danelaw from 957, succeeded his brother as king of the English on Edwy's death in 959 - a death which probably prevented civil war breaking out between the two brothers. Edgar was a firm and capable ruler whose power was acknowledged by other rulers in Britain, as well as by Welsh and Scottish kings. Edgar's late coronation in 973 at Bath was the first to be recorded in some detail; his queen Aelfthryth was the first consort to be crowned queen of England.

Edgar was the patron of a great monastic revival which owed much to his association with Archbishop Dunstan. New bishoprics were created, Benedictine monasteries were reformed and old monastic sites were re-endowed with royal grants, some of which were of land recovered from the Vikings.

In the 970s and in the absence of Viking attacks, Edgar - a stern judge - issued laws which for the first time dealt with Northumbria (parts of which were in the Danelaw) as well as Wessex and Mercia. Edgar's coinage was uniform throughout the kingdom. A more united kingdom based on royal justice and order was emerging; the Monastic Agreement (c.970) praised Edgar as 'the glorious, by the grace of Christ illustrious king of the English and of the other peoples dwelling within the bounds of the island of Britain'. After his death on 8 July 975, Edgar was buried at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.


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Edgar married Elfrida (Elfthryth) Queen Of ENGLAND in 964 in , Wessex, England. Elfrida was born about 947 in Of, Devonshire, England; died in 1000. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: GS4H-QD
• Name: Elfrida (ELFTHRYTH)
• _UID: 729AE9BCB7864E90A5AF0A286EBDA5042614

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• AFN: GS58-CM
• _UID: 2509DA4480EA44FC90DB85DF22A35E5B4347

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