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Ælfgifu of Northampton ( c. 990 – after 1040 ) was the first wife of King Cnut of England and Denmark, and mother of King Harold I of England ( 1035 – 40 ).
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This was seen as a move against Harold Harefoot, Cnut's son by Ælfgifu of Northampton, who put himself forward as Harold I with the support of many of the English nobility.
Cnut had put aside his first wife Ælfgifu of Northampton in order to marry Emma, and according to the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a book she inspired many years later, Cnut agreed that any sons of their marriage should take precedence over the sons of his first marriage.
He was the younger son of Cnut the Great, king of England, Denmark, and Norway by his first wife, Ælfgifu of Northampton.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Harold said that he was a son of Cnut the Great and Ælfgifu of Northampton, " although it was not true ".
There is evidence that Ælfgifu of Northampton was attempting to secure her son's position through bribes to the nobles.
* Rognoni, L., " Presenza e azione di Ælfgifu di Northampton, regina madre e reggente nell ' Impero del Nord di Canuto il Grande ( 1013 – 1040 )" ( in Italian )
Cnut already had a wife known as Ælfgifu of Northampton who bore him two sons, Svein and Harold Harefoot.
As well as the two sons he had with Ælfgifu of Northampton, he had a further son with Emma, who was named Harthacnut.
Two years later, Cnut brought Norway under his control and he gave Ælfgifu of Northampton and their son Svein the job of governing it.
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She was given an English name, Ælfgifu, which was used instead of her Norman name on formal occasions or on charters.
Cnut had left Norway under the rule of Håkon Eiriksson but he was drowned in 1029, and Cnut appointed his son Svein to rule Norway with the assistance of Ælfgifu, Cnut's first wife and Svein's mother.
The tale is probably fictional in origin, though consistent with the villainous depiction of Ælfgifu in this work.
Claiming that Ælfgifu wanted to have a son by the king but was unable to, she secretly adopted the newborn children of strangers and pretended to have given birth to them.
She suspects that the tale started out as a popular myth, or intentional defamation presumably tailored by Emma of Normandy, the other wife of Cnut and rival to Ælfgifu.
It included information on the situation in England, with messengers from there reporting that Ælfgifu was gaining the support of the leading aristocrats through pleas and bribery, binding them to herself and Harold by oaths of loyalty.
Harold himself is somewhat obscure ; the historian Frank Stenton considered it probable that his mother Ælfgifu was " the real ruler of England " for part or all of his reign.
Harold may have had a wife, Ælfgifu and a son, Ælfwine, who became a monk on the continent when he was older.
He was the third of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu, who was probably the daughter of Earl Thored of Northumbria.
The eldest son of King Edmund and Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, Eadwig was chosen by the nobility to succeed his uncle Eadred as King.
The " cavorting " in question consisted of Eadwig ( then only 16 ) being away from the feast with Ælfgifu and her mother Æthelgifu.
Æthelweard describes himself as the " grandson's grandson " of King Æthelred I. Eadwig was the son of King Edmund the Magnificent, grandson of King Edward the Elder, great-grandson of King Alfred the Great, and therefore great-great-nephew of King Æthelred I. Eadwig and Ælfgifu were therefore third cousins once removed.
The annulment of the marriage of Eadwig and Ælfgifu is unusual in that it took place against their will, clearly politically motivated by the supporters of Dunstan.
The body was taken to the Shaftesbury Abbey, a nunnery with royal connections which had been endowed by King Alfred the Great and where Edward and Æthelred's grandmother Ælfgifu had spent her latter years.
No one knows the meaning of the caption above this scene ubi unus clericus et Ælgyva, " where in which / during which a certain cleric and Ælfgyua ", a Latinised version of Ælfgifu, a popular Anglo-Saxon woman's name.
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Ælfgifu was the consort of King Eadwig of England ( r. 955 – 59 ) for a brief period of time until 957 or 958.
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