Queen Ethelswith MERCIA
- Born: Abt 846, Wantage, Wessex, Berkshire, England
- Married: 853
- Died: 889
 Other names for Ethelswith were Aethelswyth and MERCIA Queen.
Ancestral File Number: FLGQ-MF.
General Notes:
Queen of MERCIA.
BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Aethelswyth, Daughter of Aethelwulf, Mar Burghred King of Mercia, Died a nun 889."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Microapaedia, Vol I, p116, Aethelwulf: "...Aethelwulf married his daughter to the Mercian King Burgred (853)...thus allying his kingdom of Wessex with Mercia and thereby withstanding invasions of Danish Vikings..."
ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 FLGQ-MF Ethelswith Queen of MERCIA Born Abt 846 Of Wantage Berkshire England Died Abt ?846.
Marriage Information:
Ethelswith married King Burgred MERCIA in 853. (King Burgred MERCIA died in 874.)
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