Ethelfleda

Family: Mercians · Role: king Edward's sister · First appears: A.D. 921–935

Life events

• 916 · Ethelfleda sent an army into Wales, stormed Brecknock, and took the king's wife and others.(A.D. 910–920 · 📍 Brecknock)
  • “And within three nights sent Ethelfleda an army into Wales, and stormed Brecknock; and there took the king's wife, with some four and thirty others.”
• 918 · Ethelfleda died.(A.D. 910–920 · 📍 Tamworth)
  • “But very shortly after they had become so, she died at Tamworth, twelve days before midsummer,”
• 922 · Ethelfleda died.(A.D. 921–935 · 📍 Tamworth)
  • “Ethelfleda his sister died at Tamworth, twelve nights before midsummer.”

A.D. 921–935

• siblings with Edward son of Alfred “Ethelfleda his sister died at Tamworth, twelve nights before midsummer.”

Also listed in Mercians — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.