Aelfgifu Of The Seven BOROUGHS

Bef 1016 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Aelfgifu Of The Seven BOROUGHS  [1, 2]
  Alt. Birth	Abt 997
  	Alt. Birth
  Born	Bef 1016	Wessex, England
  Gender	Female
  _UID	DF4F8A4080D247DEA771F2EC6099499D4408
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I11650	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Sigeferth (Siferth) Thegn Of The Seven BOROUGHS,   b. Abt 985, Wessex, England ,   d. 1015, (Killed)  (Age ~ 30 years)
  Mother	Ealgyth Of MERCIA,   b. Abt 990, Mercia, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	1st Husband   [2]
  Family ID	F5848	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  I have made a general shift in dates to accomodate Godiva's (mother of Aelfgar) birth date according to Ancestral Roots and Encyclopedia Britannica. -------------------------- The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 23 Jun 1999, by Leo van de Pas: From: Leo van de Pas ([email protected]) Subject: Re: Lady Godiva Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval Date: 1999/06/23 At 12:24 PM 6/23/99 -0400, you wrote: >Leo van de Pas wrote: >> >> 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. >What is the basis for this statement. Assuming I have these names >right, Ealdgyth would later become wife of Edmund Ironside, and mother >of the exiled princes. It has been speculated that she was daughter of >an earlier Ealdorman Morcar, and this would provide onomastic continuity >with the younger Ealdorman of that name. Still, I know of no source >that provides any clues either to the parents of Aelfgar's wife, nor >that Sigeferth had a daughter. >Oops [in a slightly later post]. I left out a generation. The hypothesis is that Ealdgyth was >daughter of Aelfthryth, and maternal granddaughter of Morcar. This is >given in Moriarty's Plantagenet Ancestry, based on an earlier hypothesis >(by Richardson?). However, it does not include her having a daughter by >Sigeferth, or the marriage of that daughter to Aelfgar >taf [Todd A. Farmerie] Last year I bought a wonderful book "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" translated and edited by Michael Swanton, there are a few family trees and in this is shown that Aelfgar, Earl of East Anglia 1051-1057, Earl of Mercia 1057 was married to Aelgifu, daughter of Siferth thegn of the Seven Boroughs (killed in 1015) and Ealdgyth (daughter of Aelfthryth) who secondly married Edmund Ironside, King of England. Aelfthryth (son of Wulfrun) is a brother of Aelfhelm, Ealdorman of Northumbria (killed 1006) who in turn was father of Aelgifu married to Cnut King of England. These genealogical pages are the last of the book before the bibliography. I hope you have a copy otherwise would you like me to photocopy and post? Best wishes Leo van de Pas

  
  

• Sources

  [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 176a-3 (Reliability: 3). [S44] Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Leo van de Pas, 22 & 23 Jun 1999 (Reliability: 3).