Æthelfrith of Wessex and Mercia, Earl of Mercia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelfrith_of_Mercia

http://finnholbek.dk/getperson.php?personID=I28295&tree=2

father:

• Æthelhelm Earldorman of Wiltshire

born about 0859

died about 0898

mother:

• Æthelgyth of Mercia

siblings:

Ælfleda Queen of England

born about 0878 Wessex, England

spouse:

unknown

children:

• Eadric Earldorman of Wessex

died about 0949

biographical and/or anecdotal:

notes or source:

LDS

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Æthelfrith (c. 870 – 927), was an Ealdorman southern Mercia, occurring in documents in the first part of the 10th century. Having married Æthelgyth, daughter of Æthelwulf, he was father to four Ealdormen: Æthelstan Half-King (East Anglia), Ælfstan (Mercia), Æthelwald (Kent), and Eadric (Wessex), and apparently grandfather of Ealdorman Æthelweard 'the Historian'. That the latter called himself 'grandson's grandson' of Æthelred I, as well as documented patterns of land inheritance, have led to the hypothesis that Æthelfrith was son of Aethelhelm, Ealdorman of Wiltshire, one of Æthelred's sons. A further genealogical reconstruction would make Aethelweard, and hence Æthelfrith, an ancestor of King Harold II.

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Leo: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef. 1700, Baltimore, 1995, Weis, Frederick Lewis; Sheppard, Walter, Reference: 5.