AETHELFLAED von Mercien

0869 - 0919  (~ 49 years)

• Name	AETHELFLAED von Mercien
  Birth	0869	Wessex, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	12 Jun 0919	St. Peters, Gloucestershire, England
  Origins
  Patriarch & Matriarch	König CERDIC von Wessex           b. Abt 0467, Ancient Saxony (Northern Germany), Deutschland           d. 0543, Wessex, England  (Age 76 years)  (13 x Great Grandfather)  EDBURGA  (Grandmother)
  Person ID	I1340	Datenbank der Familien Brixel, Bechtold, Boangiu etc.
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2005

  
  

  Father	König ALFRED 'der Große' von Wessex           b. 0849, Wantage, Berkshire County, England           d. 26 Oct 0901, Winchester, England (Age ~ 52 years)
  Mother	EALSWITH von Gains           b. Abt 0850, Mercia, England           d. 0904, St. Mary's Abbey, Winchester, Dorset, England (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	0869
  Family ID	F536	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 0869 - Wessex, England Death - 12 Jun 0919 - St. Peters, Gloucestershire, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Lady Aethelflaed of Mercia was born 869 in Wessex, England. She died 12 Jun 919 in St. Peters, Gloucestershire, England. 'To judge from the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', the most dynamic royal matron of the tenth century was Alfred's daughter Aethelflaed, who took up the English campaign against the Danes after her father's death, in alliance with her brother Edward, earning herself the title 'Lady of the Mercians'. Aethelflaed was married to the monarch of the Midland kingdom of Mercia, but she ran the country herself for seven years after his death, pursuing her father's policy of building fortified burhs against the Danes - and leading her soldiers in a personal capacity, according to the Chronicle entry from 913: In this year, by the grace of God, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, went with all the Mercians to Tamworth, and built the fortress there in early summer and before the beginning of August, the one at Stafford. In 916 Aethelflaed sent a punitive expedition against some Welsh invaders, then turned her attention to the Vikings, from whom she won back the burhs of Derby and Leicester. Starting her program of fortress building in 910 AD, Aethelflaed got ten burhs completed in less than five years, and led her Mercians to victories that made her one of the most powerful figures in early tenth-century England. By 918 the Vikings in York had volunteered their allegiance to Aethelflaed without a fight. Alongside her father, Alfred, the Lady of the Mercians was one of England's folk heroes in the year 1000, remembered and respected as a tough woman in tough times, and her reputation was to grow with the retelling.' This quote was taken from page 167 and 168 of 'The Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium' by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Encyclopaedia Britannica 2003 Premium Service.