Eadgifu of Wessex
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Eadgifu or Edgifu, also known as Edgiva or Ogive, was Queen of the West Franks as the wife of King Charles the Simple. She was a daughter of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex and England, and his secon
A 15th-century depiction of Eadgifu of Wessex, with her son Louis IV
Æthelstan
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Æthelstan or Athelstan was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern hi
Æthelstan presenting a book to St Cuthbert, an illustration in a manuscript of Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert, probably presented to the saint's shrine in Chester-le-Street in County Durham by Æthelstan when he visited the shrine on his journey to Scotland in 934. He wore a crown of a similar design on his crowned bust coins. It is the oldest surviving portrait of an English king, and the manuscript is the oldest surviving made for an English king.
Statue in Tamworth, Staffordshire of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, with her young nephew Æthelstan
Silver penny of King Æthelstan
A sixteenth-century painting in Beverley Minster in the East Riding of Yorkshire of King Æthelstan with Saint John of Beverley