In the second version, Ælfthryth was implicated, either beforehand by plotting the killing, or afterwards in allowing the killers to go free and unpunished.

Ælfthryth (-1000 or 1001, also Alfrida, Elfrida or Elfthryth ) was the second or third wife of King Edgar of England.

Edmund died young, circa 970, but in 968 Ælfthryth had given birth to a second son who was called Æthelred.

Edward was known to be King Edgar's son, but was not the son of Queen Ælfthryth, the third wife of Edgar.

Ælfthryth was the widow of Æthelwald, Ealdorman of East Anglia and perhaps Edgar's third wife.

A charter of 966 describes Ælfthryth, whom Edgar had married in 964, as the king's " lawful wife ", and their eldest son Edmund as the legitimate son of the king.

Edgar was crowned at Bath and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth, setting a precedent for a coronation of a queen in England itself.

He left two sons, the elder named Edward, who was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd ( not to be confused with the Lady of the Mercians ), and Æthelred, the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth.

Ælfthryth is more reliably established as Coenwulf's wife, again from charter evidence ; she is recorded on charters dated between 804 and 817.

Ælfthryth was the first king's wife known to have been crowned and anointed as Queen of the Kingdom of England.

In 979, Queen Ælfthryth, wife of King Edgar of England, founded a royal nunnery on the site as an act of repentance for the murder of her stepson, King Edward the Martyr.

Sometime before Edgar's death ( 975 ), she left a will in which she bequeathed extensive estates in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire, considerable sums of money and various objects of value to ( 1 ) ecclesiastical houses ( Old and New Minster, Abingdon Abbey, Romsey Abbey and Bath Abbey ), ( 2 ) Bishop Æthelwold ( in person ), ( 3 ) members of the royal family ( Edgar, Queen Ælfthryth and Edward the Martyr ), and ( 4 ) her closest relatives ( her two brothers, her sister and her brother's wife ).

He had the strong support of Edgar and his wife, Ælfthryth, and his works emphasise the role of Edgar, who he saw as Christ's representative, in restoring the monasteries.

When the succession became an issue late in Edgar's reign, Æthelwold supported the claim of Æthelred, the son of his major patron, Ælfthryth, whereas Dunstan and Oswald appear to have supported Edgar's son by an earlier wife, Edward the Martyr, who succeeded to the throne.

He was son of King Edgar and Queen Ælfthryth.

In the 19th-century depiction by James William Edmund Doyle, Edward the Martyr is offered a cup of mead by Ælfthryth, widow of the late Edgar, unaware that her attendant is about to murder him.

According to William, the beauty of Ordgar's daughter Ælfthryth was reported to King Edgar.

Edgar, looking for a Queen, sent Æthewald to see Ælfthryth, ordering him " to offer her marriage Edgar if her beauty were really equal to report.

Edgar had two children before he married Ælfthryth, both of uncertain legitimacy.

Sound political reasons encouraged the match between Edgar, whose power base was centred in Mercia, and Ælfthryth, whose family were powerful in Wessex.

Edgar married Ælfthryth in either 964 or 965.

In 884 Baldwin married Ælfthryth ( Ælfthryth, Elftrude, Elfrida ), a daughter of King Alfred the Great of England.

He married Ælfthryth, a daughter of Alfred the Great, King of England.

Ælfthryth was a direct ancestor of Matilda of Flanders, who married William the Conqueror, first monarch from the House of Normandy, granting a descendant of the House of Wessex to be king of England, even after the Norman conquest of England.

In the second and third chapters of Revelation the new version retains, however, the old phrase `` angel of the church '' which Biblical scholars have previously interpreted as meaning bishop.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

A second edition is in preparation, and there are long range plans for a third.

And while the meaning of the words is not in this instance altered, the quality of communication in both the second and third examples is definitely impaired.

It would be made in three waves -- the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below.

Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.

Momentarily the Reds were back in the ball game, trailing only 6-3, but the drive fizzled when John Edwards fouled out with men on second and third and two out.

Col. Clifton Lisle, of Chester Springs, who headed the Troop Committee for much of its second and third decades, is now an honorary member.

Bill Davis quartet of Hillsboro was second and baton twirler Sue Ann Nuttall of Reedville third.

He did seem hasty on his second and third shots, but then there was an agonizing wait of several minutes while Coe graciously putted out, giving Palmer a chance to recover his composure, which he had quite visibly lost.

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The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

Three elements have been important in holding the Communion together: First, the shared ecclesial structure of the component churches, manifested in an episcopal polity maintained through the apostolic succession of bishops and synodical government ; second, the principle of belief expressed in worship, investing importance in approved prayer books and their rubrics ; and third, the historical documents and standard divines that have influenced the ethos of the Communion.

The team achieved good results and in 1960 the club presented a team that won the third division of the Buenos Aires league, reaching the second division.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

This is likely due to three scenes in the Chronicles: first, when Eric paralyzes Corwin with an attack across the Trump and refuses to desist because one or the other would be dominated ; second, when Corwin faces the demon Strygalldwir, it is able to wrestle mentally with him when their gazes meet ; and third, when Fiona is able to keep Brand immobile in the final battle at the Courts of Chaos.

Constantius wavered in his support between the first and the second party, while harshly persecuting the third.

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* The concatenation of the three strings,, can be computed by concatenating the first two strings ( giving ) and appending the third string (), or by joining the second and third string ( giving ) and concatenating the first string () with the result.

He became a member with the Club's second meeting and hosted their third.

She was only the third Roman woman ( Livia Drusilla and Antonia Minor received this title ) and only the second living Roman woman ( the first being Antonia ) to receive this title.

The Senate took three votes: on May 16, it voted on the 11th article of impeachment, which included many of the charges contained in the other articles, and on May 26 voted on the second and third articles, after which the trial adjourned.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.