Ealhswith
Anglo Saxon royal consort
Feast: 20 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. She was the mother of King Edward the Elder who succeeded King Alfred to the Anglo-Saxon throne. Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucel, Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family and her lineage was one of the primary reasons for Alfred taking Ealhswith as his wife. She founded the nunnery of Nunnaminster.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Alfred the Great Saint Spouse“Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great.” — Wikipedia
- CatholicSaints.Info - Saint Elswith — 'Also known as Ealsitha, Ealhswith, Etheldwitha. Memorial 20 July' - exactly the feast on the page. Mercian princess, wife of Alfred the Great, widowed in 899, became a nun and abbess of the convent she founded at Winche
- Wikidata Q242670 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ealhswith (CC BY-SA)
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