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Edith of England, wife of OTTO. NB: DO NOT CHANGE NAME!

(Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

[edit] Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

1. Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red
2. Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)
[edit] Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The tests at Bristol will check, via isotope tests on tooth enamel, whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as history has suggested.

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and his second wife Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

NB: Keep name as Eadgyth (Otto's wife) Edith von Sachsen (West Seaxe) to avoid mix-ups with her sisters.

Married Otto von Sachsen.

Two children:

1. Liudolf

2. Liutgarde

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EADGYTH ([908/12][1680]-26 Jan 946, bur Magdeburg Cathedral). The Book of Hyde names "Edgitham et Elgimam" as fifth and sixth of the six daughters of King Eadweard by his first wife "Elfelmi comitis filia Elfleda", specifying that they were both sent to "Henrico Alemanorum imperatori" and that the former married "filio sui Othoni"[1681]. Thietmar names "Edith…daughter of King Edmund of England" when recording her marriage during the lifetime of Otto's father, in a later passage stating that she urged her husband to begin establishing the city of Magdeburg[1682]. The Annalista Saxo records the wife of Otto as "Ediht filiam Ehtmundi regis Anglorum"[1683]. Thietmar records her death 26 Jan "in the eleventh year" of the reign of her husband, after 19 years of marriage, and her place of burial[1684].

m (Sep 929) as his first wife, OTTO of Germany, son of HEINRICH I "der Vogelsteller/the Fowler" King of Germany & his second wife Mathilde --- (23 Nov 912-Memleben 7 May 973, bur Magdeburg cathedral). Associate King of Germany, with his father, 930. He was elected OTTO I "der Große" King of Germany 7 Aug 936. Crowned Emperor at Rome 2 Feb 962.

OTTO, son of HEINRICH I "der Vogelsteller/the Fowler" King of Germany & his second wife Mathilde --- (23 Nov 912-Memleben 7 May 973, bur Magdeburg Cathedral). Widukind names (in order) "Oddonem, Heinricum, Brunonem" as sons of King Heinrich & his second wife[201]. Associate King of Germany, with his father, in 930. He was elected OTTO I "der Große" King of Germany 7 Aug 936, crowned at Aachen. After his accession, the Bohemians and the Abotrites withheld payment of tribute. A revolt in Bavaria was led by Duke Eberhard, whom King Otto deposed and banished. Otto's half-brother Thankmar rebelled in Saxony with other magnates dissatisfied with the king's distribution of offices. His brother Heinrich rebelled in 939, was joined by Louis IV King of the West Franks and Giselbert Duke of Lotharingia, but was defeated at Birten and Andernach[202]. He founded the monastery of Magdeburg (later Magdeburg Cathedral), encouraged by his first wife, to which the relics of St Innocent were brought[203]. He sent armed forces which were unsuccessful in taking reprisals against Rouen in 945, after members of the local nobility had arranged the escape of Richard I Comte [de Normandie] from his captivity by Louis IV King of the Franks, his brother-in-law, a nepos (unidentified) of King Otto being killed in the battle[204]. He invaded Italy in 951, using the ill-treatment of his future second wife as an excuse, entered Pavia 23 Sep 951 and proclaimed himself king of Italy. His predecessor Berengario di Ivrea proposed himself as Otto's viceroy in Italy, which was accepted by the Council of Augsburg in Aug 952. King Otto's son Liudolf rebelled in 953, but was pardoned in 954. King Otto defeated the Magyars in battle at Lechfeld near Augsburg in 955[205], which marked the end of their marauding in Europe. Berengario King of Italy abused his position, and Otto sent Liudolf to Italy to restore order. After several further years of Berengario's tyrannical rule in Italy, Otto invaded in Aug 961 in response to requests for intervention from Pope John XII and Hubert [de Provence] Duke of Spoleto, one of Berengario's main vassals. King Otto forced Berengario's retreat to the fortress of San Leo near Montefeltro 962, finally capturing him in 963. He was crowned Emperor at Rome 2 Feb 962 by Pope John XII[206]. The necrology of Fulda records the death "973 Non Mai" of "Otto imp"[207]. Thietmar records his death at Memleben on 7 May in the thirty-eighth year after his consecration and his burial at Magdeburg[208]. The necrology of Merseburg records the death "7 May" of "Otto maior magnus imperator"[209].

m firstly (Sep 929) EADGYTH of Wessex, daughter of EDWARD "the Elder" King of Wessex & his second wife Ælfleda --- (-26 Jan 946[210], bur Magdeburg Cathedral). The Book of Hyde names "Edgitham et Elgimam" as fifth and sixth of the six daughters of King Eadweard by his first wife "Elfelmi comitis filia Elfleda", specifying that they were both sent to "Henrico Alemanorum imperatori" and that the former married "filio sui Othoni"[211]. Thietmar names "Edith…daughter of King Edmund of England" when recording her marriage during the lifetime of Otto's father, in a later passage stating that she urged her husband to begin establishing the city of Magdeburg[212]. The Annalista Saxo records the wife of Otto as "Ediht filiam Ehtmundi regis Anglorum"[213]. Thietmar records her death 26 Jan "in the eleventh year" of the reign of her husband, after 19 years of marriage, and her place of burial[214].

m secondly (Pavia [Oct/Nov] 951) as her second husband, ADELAIS of Burgundy, widow of LOTHAR King of Italy, daughter of RUDOLF II King of Burgundy [Welf] & his wife Bertha of Swabia ([928/33]-Kloster Selz, Alsace 16 Dec 999, bur Kloster Selz). Luitprand names "Adelegidam" daughter of Rudolf & Berta, when recording her marriage to "regi Lothario"[215]. Her birth date range is estimated from having given birth to one child by her first marriage before the death of her husband in 950. She claimed the kingdom of Italy on the death of her husband, as the daughter of one of the rival claimants for the throne earlier in the century. Willa, wife of Berengario di Ivrea who had been proclaimed king at Pavia 15 Dec 950, ordered Adelais's imprisonment at Como 20 Apr 951 and "afflicted her with imprisonment and hunger" according to Flodoard[216]. Otto I King of Germany used her ill-treatment as an excuse to invade Italy in Sep 951, although Adelais had succeeded in escaping 20 Aug 951 to Reggio[217]. King Otto entered Pavia 23 Sep 951, proclaimed himself King of Italy, and married Adelais as her second husband. The Annalista Saxo records "Adelheidam reginam" as "coniuge rege Lothario" when she married Otto[218]. Flodoard refers to "uxorem quoque Lotharii regis defuncti, filii Hugonis, sororem Chonradi regis" when recording her second marriage[219]. She was crowned empress at Rome with her husband 2 Feb 962[220]. "Aleidis sororis" is named in the charter of "Chuonradus rex" dated 8 Apr 962[221]. "Adelheidis imperatrix cum filia Athelheidhe abbatissa in Italiam profecta est propter quasdam discordias inter se et filium factas", although it is unclear to whom "filia Athelheidhe" refers unless this is an error for Mathilde[222]. She replaced her daughter-in-law as regent for her grandson King Otto III in 991[223]. The necrology of Fulda records the death "999 17 Kal Ian" of "Adalheid imperatrix"[224].

Mistress (1): (before 929) --- [of the Hevelli], daughter of [BA%C3%87LABI%C4%8C [Václav] Fürst der Stodoranen & his wife ---]. According to Europäische Stammtafeln[225], she was the daughter of Baçlabić. The primary source which confirms her parentage has not yet been identified. She was a "captured Slavic noblewoman" according to Thietmar, who gives neither her name nor her parentage[226].

King Otto I & his first wife had two children:

1. LIUDOLF ([930]-Piomba 6 Sep 957, bur St Alban, near Mainz[227]). The Annales Quedlingburgenes name "Liudolfo et Liutgarde" as the two children of King Otto I and Eadgyth[228]. His birth date is estimate from Widukind stating that he "was still a tender youth no more than seventeen years of age" when his mother died[229]. His father installed him as Duke of Swabia in 950, in succession to Liudolf's father-in-law[230]. "Otto…rex" donated property "in pago Brisehguue in comitatu filii nostri Liutolfi" to Kloster Einsiedeln by charter dated 9 Aug 952[231]. He rebelled against his father, together with his brother-in-law Konrad Duke of Lotharingia, was besieged at Mainz, but escaped to capture Regensburg and expel his uncle Heinrich Duke of Bavaria[232]. His father deposed him in 954 as Duke of Swabia, but ultimately forgave his rebellion[233]. His father sent him to Italy to control Berengario di Ivrea, Viceroy in Italy, who was attempting to reassert his independence, but Liudolf died there of a fever. Thietmar places a different slant on the event, stating that Liudolf had once more rebelled against his father and left for Italy[234]. Thietmar records the death of Liudolf in Italy 6 Sep, "after scarcely a year" following his departure from his homeland, but does not specify the year[235]. The Annales Necrologici Fuldenses record the death "957 VIII Id Sep" of "Liutolf filius regis"[236]. The necrology of Lüneburg records the death "6 Sep" of "Liuidolfus regis filius"[237]. Regino specifies that he died in Italy and was buried in Mainz St Alban[238]. m ([27 Oct 947/7 Apr 948][239]%29 IDA of Swabia, daughter of HERMANN I Duke of Swabia [Konradiner] & his wife Regelinda of Swabia (-17 May 986). Widukind names "ducis Herimanni filiam Idam" as wife of Liudolf[240]. Regino records the marriage of "filiam Herimanni ducis" and "Liutolfus filius regis" in 947[241]. "Otto…rex" granted property "in comitatu Herimanni ducis Rehzia" to "abbati nostro Hartberto" at the request of "filie nostre Ite…et Hermanni comitis" by charter dated 7 Apr 948[242]. "Otto…rex" confirmed a donation by "Liutolfo nostro filio eiusque…coniuge Ita" to Kloster Reichenau for the soul of "ducis nostri beate memorie Herimanni" by charter dated 1 Jan 950[243]. The Liber Anniversariorum of Einsiedeln records in May the donation of "Siernza" by "domina Ita…uxor Luitolfi ducis"[244]. Liudolf & his wife had [three] children:

a) MATHILDE (end 949-6 Nov 1011, bur Rellinghausen). Regino records the birth of "Mathildis filia Liutolfo" at the end of 949[245]. Abbess of Essen [965]. The Liber Anniversariorum of Einsiedeln records in May the donation of "Gruonowa" by "domina Mechthilt ducissa, Liutolfi ducis et Itæ ducisse filia"[246].

b) OTTO (954-Lucca 31 Oct 982, bur Aschaffenburg St Peter and Alexander). Regino records the birth of "Liutolfo filius Otto" in 954[247]. He was appointed OTTO Duke of Swabia in 973 by his uncle King Otto II in succession to Duke Burkhard III. "Otto…imperator augustus" confirmed donations of property "de locis Ozenheim, Tetingen…in pago Moiinegouwe in comitatu Eberhardi comitis" by "nobis nepos et equivocus noster Otto dux Sweuorum" to "sancti Petri Ascaffaburg" by charter dated 29 Aug 975[248]. King Otto installed him as OTTO Duke of Bavaria in [976], after confiscating it from his cousin Heinrich II "der Zänker" Duke of Bavaria[249], although Carinthia and the Italian marches were taken from the duchy and made into the new duchy of Carinthia. "Otto…imperator augustus" donated property in Regensburg to Friedrich Archbishop of Salzburg by charter dated 21 Jul 976 after consulting "Ottonis Bauariorum ducis, nostri…fratris filii"[250]. He campaigned in Italy with his uncle King Otto II. He took part in the capture of Tarento, and in the battle 13 Jul 982 at which the German army was defeated by a Byzantine/Muslim alliance near Stilo in Calabria[251]. The death of "Otto dux egregius, filius Liudolfi, fratruelis Ottonis secundi", soon after this defeat, is recorded in the Annalista Saxo[252]. The necrology of St Gall records the death "II Kal Nov" of "Ottonis ducis Alamannie"[253]. He is presumably the "Otto dux Sueuorum" whose death is recorded "1 Nov" in The necrology of Merseburg[254].

2. LIUTGARD ([931]-18 Nov 953, bur St Alban, near Mainz). The Annales Quedlingburgenes name "Liudolfo et Liutgarde" as the two children of King Otto I and Eadgyth[255]. Widukind records her marriage to "Conrado"[256]. According to Thietmar of Merseburg, Liutgard was accused by "a certain Cono" of adultery but her name was cleared after Graf Burkhard fought her accuser in combat in her name[257]. "Otto…rex" granted property confiscated from "Hatto Aladramque fratres…in villis Bechi et Auici situm in pago Ganipi in comitatu Arnulfi" to the church of St Florin, Koblenz at the request of "ducis nostri Cuonradi eius coniugis filiæ nostræ Liutgartæ" by charter dated 22 Nov 949[258]. Regino records the death of "Liutgarda filia regis" in 953[259]. The necrology of Merseburg records the death "18 Nov" of "Liudgard filia imperatoris Ottonis"[260]. Thietmar records her burial in "the church of…Alban at Mainz"[261].

m ([947]%29 KONRAD "der Rote" Graf in Franconia Duke of Lotharingia [Salian], son of WERNER Graf im Nahe-, Speyer- und Wormsgau & his wife --- [Konradiner] (-killed in battle Lechfeld 10 Aug 955, bur Worms Cathedral[262]). "Conradus dux" is named husband of Liutgard when recording their marriage in 949[263]. He rebelled against his father-in-law, together with his brother-in-law Liudolf Duke of Swabia, but was ultimately forgiven although deposed as Duke of Lotharingia. Thietmar records that Duke Konrad, son-in-law of Emperor Otto I, was killed fighting the Magyars near Augsburg and that he was buried at Worms[264].

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Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

1. Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red
2. Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)
Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The tests at Bristol will check, via isotope tests on tooth enamel, whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as history has suggested.

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Rather inconclusive piece about finding her remains (maybe) in Magdeburg Cathedral.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8467870.stm

Eadgyth (?) (1)

F, #102451, d. 26 January 946

Last Edited=3 Dec 2005

Eadgyth (?) was the daughter of Eadweard I, King of Wessex and Ælflæd (?). (2) She married Otto I von Sachsen, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Heinrich I von Sachsen, Holy Roman Emperor and Matilda of Ringelheim, between 925 and 930. (3)
She died on 26 January 946 at Germany. (4), (1) She was buried at Cathedral of St. Maurice, Magdeburg, Germany. (3)

Eadgyth (?) was also known as Edith (?). (3)
Children of Eadgyth (?) and Otto I von Sachsen, Holy Roman Emperor

-1. Richilde von Sachsen+

-2. Liudolf, Duke of Swabia+ (3) d. 957

-3. Liutgarde von Sachsen+ (3)

-4. Otto II von Sachsen, Holy Roman Emperor+ (5) d. 983

Forrás / Source:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p10246.htm#i102451

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

King Athelstan of England sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history. (According to the entry for Boleslaus II of Bohemia, Adiva was his wife.)

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald, and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Eadgyth

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Ædgyth or Edith of England (910 - 26 January 946) was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd.

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

King Athelstan of England sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history. (According to the entry for Boleslaus II of Bohemia, Adiva was his wife.)

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald, and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6, 957)

Her tomb is located at the Cathedral of Magdeburg.

Edith of England (910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd.

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

King Athelstan of England sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history. (According to the entry for Boleslaus II of Bohemia, Adiva was his wife.)

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald, and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6, 957)

Her tomb is located at the Cathedral of Magdeburg.

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)

Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The tests at Bristol will check, via isotope tests on tooth enamel, whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as history has suggested

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A statue in the Cathedral of Magdeburg that is often assumed to represent Otto and Edith

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Contents

[show]

• 1 Life
• 2 Children
• 3 Tomb
• 4 Ancestry
• 5 References
• 6 Sources
• 7 External links

[edit] Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

In 936 King Henry I of Germany died and his eldest son, Eadgyth's husband, was crowned at Aachen as King Otto I. There is a surviving report of the ceremony by Widukind of Corvey which makes no mention of his wife having been crowned at this point, but according to Thietmar of Merseburg's chronicle Eadgyth was nevertheless anointed as queen, albeit in a separate ceremony. As queen, Eadgyth undertook the usual state duties of "First lady": when she turns up in the records it is generally in connection with gifts to the state's favoured monasteries or memorials to female holy women and saints. In this respect she seems to have been more diligent than her now widowed and subsequently sainted mother-in-law Queen Matilda whose own charitable activities only achieve a single recorded mention from the period of Eadgyth's time as queen. There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.

Eadgyth accompanied her husband on his travels, though not during battles. She spent the hostilities of 939 at Lorsch Abbey

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

Eadgyth's death at a relatively young age was unexpected.

[edit] Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

1. Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red
2. Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)
[edit] Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The investigations at Bristol, applying isotope tests on tooth enamel, checked whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as written history has indicated.[1][2] Testing on the bones revealed that they are the remains of Eadgyth, from study made of the enamel of the teeth in her upper jaw.[3] Testing of the enamel revealed that the individual entombed at Magdeburg had spent time as a youth in the chalky uplands of Wessex.[4]

"Tests on these isotopes can give a precise record of where the person lived up to the age of 14," noted The Times of London in its story on the testing. "In this case they showed that the woman in the casket had spent the first years of her life drinking water that came from springs on the chalk hills of southern England. This matched exactly the historical records of Eadgyth’s early life."[5]

The bones "are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial," Bristol University announced in a press release.[6]

References

1. ^ a b Kennedy, Maev (20 January 2010). "Remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter returned / Coming home: the Saxon queen lost for 1,000 years". The Guardian (London): pp. 5. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/20/alfred-great-granddau.... Retrieved 20 January 2010.
2. ^ Satter, Raphael G. (20 Jan 2010). "Discovery News". Bones of early English princess found in Germany. http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/english-princess-bones.html. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
3. ^ German cathedral bones 'are Saxon queen Eadgyth, BBC News, 16 June 2010
4. ^ Remains of first king of England's sister found in German cathedral, The Guardian, 17 June 2010
5. ^ The Times, Simon de Bruxelles, 17 June 2010
6. ^ Bones confirmed as those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth, University of Bristol, 17 June 2010
[edit] Sources

• Freytag von Loringhoven, Baron. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, 1965.
• Klaniczay, Gábor. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses, 2002.

[edit] External links

Familypedia.jpg Eadgyth of Wessex (910-946) on Familypedia

• The life of an Anglo-Saxon princess, Michael Wood, The Guardian, 17 June 2010
• How the study of teeth is revealing our history, Mike Pitts, The Guardian, 17 June 2010

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Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Contents [hide]

1 Life

2 Children

3 Tomb

4 References

5 Sources

[edit]Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

[edit]Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)

[edit]Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The tests at Bristol will check, via isotope tests on tooth enamel, whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as history has suggested.[1][2]

[edit]References

^ a b Kennedy, Maev (20 January 2010). "Guardian.co.uk" (in English). Remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter returned / Coming home: the Saxon queen lost for 1,000 years (Guardian): pp. 5. Retrieved 20 January 2010.

^ Satter, Raphael G. (20 Jan 2010). "Discovery News" (in English). Bones of early English princess found in Germany. Retrieved 21 January 2010.

[edit]Sources

Freytag von Loringhoven, Baron. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, 1965.

Klaniczay, Gábor. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses, 2002.

Preceded by

Matilda of Ringelheim Queen consort of Germany

936 – 946 Succeeded by

Adelaide of Italy

Preceded by

Matilda of Ringelheim Duchess consort of Saxony

2 July 936 – 26 January 946 Succeeded by

Adelaide of Italy

Edith of England (910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd.

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

King Athelstan of England sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history. (According to the entry for Boleslaus II of Bohemia, Adiva was his wife.)

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald, and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6, 957)

Her tomb is located at the Cathedral of Magdeburg.

EadgythFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people named Eadgyth, see Eadgyth (disambiguation). A statue in the Cathedral of Magdeburg that is often assumed to represent Otto and Edith Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð) (910 – 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Contents [hide]
1 Life

2 Children
3 Tomb
4 Ancestry
5 References
6 Sources
7 External links
[edit] Life Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.
In 936 King Henry I of Germany died and his eldest son, Eadgyth's husband, was crowned at Aachen as King Otto I. There is a surviving report of the ceremony by Widukind of Corvey which makes no mention of his wife having been crowned at this point, but according to Thietmar of Merseburg's chronicle Eadgyth was nevertheless anointed as queen, albeit in a separate ceremony. As queen, Eadgyth undertook the usual state duties of "First lady": when she turns up in the records it is generally in connection with gifts to the state's favoured monasteries or memorials to female holy women and saints. In this respect she seems to have been more diligent than her now widowed and subsequently sainted mother-in-law Queen Matilda whose own charitable activities only achieve a single recorded mention from the period of Eadgyth's time as queen. There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.
Eadgyth accompanied her husband on his travels, though not during battles. She spent the hostilities of 939 at Lorsch Abbey
Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]
Eadgyth's death at a relatively young age was unexpected.
[edit] Children Edith and Otto's children were:
1.Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red
2.Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)
[edit] Tomb Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The investigations at Bristol, applying isotope tests on tooth enamel, checked whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as written history has indicated.[1][2] Testing on the bones revealed that they are the remains of Eadgyth, from study made of the enamel of the teeth in her upper jaw.[3] Testing of the enamel revealed that the individual entombed at Magdeburg had spent time as a youth in the chalky uplands of Wessex.[4]
"Tests on these isotopes can give a precise record of where the person lived up to the age of 14," noted The Times of London in its story on the testing. "In this case they showed that the woman in the casket had spent the first years of her life drinking water that came from springs on the chalk hills of southern England. This matched exactly the historical records of Eadgyth’s early life."[5]
The bones "are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial," Bristol University announced in a press release.[6]
Following the tests the bones shall be re-interred in Magdeburg Cathedral on 22 October 2010.
[edit] References 1.^ a b Kennedy, Maev (20 January 2010). "Remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter returned / Coming home: the Saxon queen lost for 1,000 years". The Guardian (London): pp. 5. Retrieved 20 January 2010.

2.^ Satter, Raphael G. (20 January 2010). "Discovery News". Bones of early English princess found in Germany. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
3.^ German cathedral bones 'are Saxon queen Eadgyth, BBC News, 16 June 2010
4.^ Remains of first king of England's sister found in German cathedral, The Guardian, 17 June 2010
5.^ The Times, Simon de Bruxelles, 17 June 2010
6.^ Bones confirmed as those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth, University of Bristol, 17 June 2010
[edit] Sources Freytag von Loringhoven, Baron. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, 1965.
Klaniczay, Gábor. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses, 2002.
[edit] External links Eadgyth of Wessex (910-946) on Familypedia
The life of an Anglo-Saxon princess, Michael Wood, The Guardian, 17 June 2010

How the study of teeth is revealing our history, Mike Pitts, The Guardian, 17 June 2010
Preceded by
Matilda of Ringelheim Queen consort of Germany
936–946 Succeeded by
Adelaide of Italy
Preceded by

Matilda of Ringelheim Duchess consort of Saxony
2 July 936 – 26 January 946 Succeeded by
Adelaide of Italy
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Prinsesse av England.

Kilder:

Dictionary of National Biography. Mogens Bugge: Våre forfedre, nr. 215. Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre, side 67, 103.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadgyth

Born in 910, died in 946.
Her Grandfather was Alfred of England and her ftaher was Edward, king of England. After the divorce of her parents 919 she moved into a convent in Salisbury.

Married in 929AC at age 19 to Otto of Germany, who gave her the City of Magdeburg in morning gift. Otto was crowned kejser by the Pope in 946 just after her death. Buried in the Dom of Magdeburg, Germany. To be reburied in a coffin of Titanium and Silver, designed by Kornelia Thümmel. Source: ritzau/dpa

Edith of England, wife of OTTO. NB: DO NOT CHANGE NAME!

(Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

[edit] Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

1. Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red
2. Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)
[edit] Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The tests at Bristol will check, via isotope tests on tooth enamel, whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as history has suggested.

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and his second wife Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

NB: Keep name as Eadgyth (Otto's wife) Edith von Sachsen (West Seaxe) to avoid mix-ups with her sisters.

Married Otto von Sachsen.

Two children:

1. Liudolf

2. Liutgarde

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadgyth

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20AngloSaxon%20&%20Danish%...

EADGYTH ([908/12][1680]-26 Jan 946, bur Magdeburg Cathedral). The Book of Hyde names "Edgitham et Elgimam" as fifth and sixth of the six daughters of King Eadweard by his first wife "Elfelmi comitis filia Elfleda", specifying that they were both sent to "Henrico Alemanorum imperatori" and that the former married "filio sui Othoni"[1681]. Thietmar names "Edith…daughter of King Edmund of England" when recording her marriage during the lifetime of Otto's father, in a later passage stating that she urged her husband to begin establishing the city of Magdeburg[1682]. The Annalista Saxo records the wife of Otto as "Ediht filiam Ehtmundi regis Anglorum"[1683]. Thietmar records her death 26 Jan "in the eleventh year" of the reign of her husband, after 19 years of marriage, and her place of burial[1684].

m (Sep 929) as his first wife, OTTO of Germany, son of HEINRICH I "der Vogelsteller/the Fowler" King of Germany & his second wife Mathilde --- (23 Nov 912-Memleben 7 May 973, bur Magdeburg cathedral). Associate King of Germany, with his father, 930. He was elected OTTO I "der Große" King of Germany 7 Aug 936. Crowned Emperor at Rome 2 Feb 962.

OTTO, son of HEINRICH I "der Vogelsteller/the Fowler" King of Germany & his second wife Mathilde --- (23 Nov 912-Memleben 7 May 973, bur Magdeburg Cathedral). Widukind names (in order) "Oddonem, Heinricum, Brunonem" as sons of King Heinrich & his second wife[201]. Associate King of Germany, with his father, in 930. He was elected OTTO I "der Große" King of Germany 7 Aug 936, crowned at Aachen. After his accession, the Bohemians and the Abotrites withheld payment of tribute. A revolt in Bavaria was led by Duke Eberhard, whom King Otto deposed and banished. Otto's half-brother Thankmar rebelled in Saxony with other magnates dissatisfied with the king's distribution of offices. His brother Heinrich rebelled in 939, was joined by Louis IV King of the West Franks and Giselbert Duke of Lotharingia, but was defeated at Birten and Andernach[202]. He founded the monastery of Magdeburg (later Magdeburg Cathedral), encouraged by his first wife, to which the relics of St Innocent were brought[203]. He sent armed forces which were unsuccessful in taking reprisals against Rouen in 945, after members of the local nobility had arranged the escape of Richard I Comte [de Normandie] from his captivity by Louis IV King of the Franks, his brother-in-law, a nepos (unidentified) of King Otto being killed in the battle[204]. He invaded Italy in 951, using the ill-treatment of his future second wife as an excuse, entered Pavia 23 Sep 951 and proclaimed himself king of Italy. His predecessor Berengario di Ivrea proposed himself as Otto's viceroy in Italy, which was accepted by the Council of Augsburg in Aug 952. King Otto's son Liudolf rebelled in 953, but was pardoned in 954. King Otto defeated the Magyars in battle at Lechfeld near Augsburg in 955[205], which marked the end of their marauding in Europe. Berengario King of Italy abused his position, and Otto sent Liudolf to Italy to restore order. After several further years of Berengario's tyrannical rule in Italy, Otto invaded in Aug 961 in response to requests for intervention from Pope John XII and Hubert [de Provence] Duke of Spoleto, one of Berengario's main vassals. King Otto forced Berengario's retreat to the fortress of San Leo near Montefeltro 962, finally capturing him in 963. He was crowned Emperor at Rome 2 Feb 962 by Pope John XII[206]. The necrology of Fulda records the death "973 Non Mai" of "Otto imp"[207]. Thietmar records his death at Memleben on 7 May in the thirty-eighth year after his consecration and his burial at Magdeburg[208]. The necrology of Merseburg records the death "7 May" of "Otto maior magnus imperator"[209].

m firstly (Sep 929) EADGYTH of Wessex, daughter of EDWARD "the Elder" King of Wessex & his second wife Ælfleda --- (-26 Jan 946[210], bur Magdeburg Cathedral). The Book of Hyde names "Edgitham et Elgimam" as fifth and sixth of the six daughters of King Eadweard by his first wife "Elfelmi comitis filia Elfleda", specifying that they were both sent to "Henrico Alemanorum imperatori" and that the former married "filio sui Othoni"[211]. Thietmar names "Edith…daughter of King Edmund of England" when recording her marriage during the lifetime of Otto's father, in a later passage stating that she urged her husband to begin establishing the city of Magdeburg[212]. The Annalista Saxo records the wife of Otto as "Ediht filiam Ehtmundi regis Anglorum"[213]. Thietmar records her death 26 Jan "in the eleventh year" of the reign of her husband, after 19 years of marriage, and her place of burial[214].

m secondly (Pavia [Oct/Nov] 951) as her second husband, ADELAIS of Burgundy, widow of LOTHAR King of Italy, daughter of RUDOLF II King of Burgundy [Welf] & his wife Bertha of Swabia ([928/33]-Kloster Selz, Alsace 16 Dec 999, bur Kloster Selz). Luitprand names "Adelegidam" daughter of Rudolf & Berta, when recording her marriage to "regi Lothario"[215]. Her birth date range is estimated from having given birth to one child by her first marriage before the death of her husband in 950. She claimed the kingdom of Italy on the death of her husband, as the daughter of one of the rival claimants for the throne earlier in the century. Willa, wife of Berengario di Ivrea who had been proclaimed king at Pavia 15 Dec 950, ordered Adelais's imprisonment at Como 20 Apr 951 and "afflicted her with imprisonment and hunger" according to Flodoard[216]. Otto I King of Germany used her ill-treatment as an excuse to invade Italy in Sep 951, although Adelais had succeeded in escaping 20 Aug 951 to Reggio[217]. King Otto entered Pavia 23 Sep 951, proclaimed himself King of Italy, and married Adelais as her second husband. The Annalista Saxo records "Adelheidam reginam" as "coniuge rege Lothario" when she married Otto[218]. Flodoard refers to "uxorem quoque Lotharii regis defuncti, filii Hugonis, sororem Chonradi regis" when recording her second marriage[219]. She was crowned empress at Rome with her husband 2 Feb 962[220]. "Aleidis sororis" is named in the charter of "Chuonradus rex" dated 8 Apr 962[221]. "Adelheidis imperatrix cum filia Athelheidhe abbatissa in Italiam profecta est propter quasdam discordias inter se et filium factas", although it is unclear to whom "filia Athelheidhe" refers unless this is an error for Mathilde[222]. She replaced her daughter-in-law as regent for her grandson King Otto III in 991[223]. The necrology of Fulda records the death "999 17 Kal Ian" of "Adalheid imperatrix"[224].

Mistress (1): (before 929) --- [of the Hevelli], daughter of [BA%C3%87LABI%C4%8C [Václav] Fürst der Stodoranen & his wife ---]. According to Europäische Stammtafeln[225], she was the daughter of Baçlabić. The primary source which confirms her parentage has not yet been identified. She was a "captured Slavic noblewoman" according to Thietmar, who gives neither her name nor her parentage[226].

King Otto I & his first wife had two children:

1. LIUDOLF ([930]-Piomba 6 Sep 957, bur St Alban, near Mainz[227]). The Annales Quedlingburgenes name "Liudolfo et Liutgarde" as the two children of King Otto I and Eadgyth[228]. His birth date is estimate from Widukind stating that he "was still a tender youth no more than seventeen years of age" when his mother died[229]. His father installed him as Duke of Swabia in 950, in succession to Liudolf's father-in-law[230]. "Otto…rex" donated property "in pago Brisehguue in comitatu filii nostri Liutolfi" to Kloster Einsiedeln by charter dated 9 Aug 952[231]. He rebelled against his father, together with his brother-in-law Konrad Duke of Lotharingia, was besieged at Mainz, but escaped to capture Regensburg and expel his uncle Heinrich Duke of Bavaria[232]. His father deposed him in 954 as Duke of Swabia, but ultimately forgave his rebellion[233]. His father sent him to Italy to control Berengario di Ivrea, Viceroy in Italy, who was attempting to reassert his independence, but Liudolf died there of a fever. Thietmar places a different slant on the event, stating that Liudolf had once more rebelled against his father and left for Italy[234]. Thietmar records the death of Liudolf in Italy 6 Sep, "after scarcely a year" following his departure from his homeland, but does not specify the year[235]. The Annales Necrologici Fuldenses record the death "957 VIII Id Sep" of "Liutolf filius regis"[236]. The necrology of Lüneburg records the death "6 Sep" of "Liuidolfus regis filius"[237]. Regino specifies that he died in Italy and was buried in Mainz St Alban[238]. m ([27 Oct 947/7 Apr 948][239]%29 IDA of Swabia, daughter of HERMANN I Duke of Swabia [Konradiner] & his wife Regelinda of Swabia (-17 May 986). Widukind names "ducis Herimanni filiam Idam" as wife of Liudolf[240]. Regino records the marriage of "filiam Herimanni ducis" and "Liutolfus filius regis" in 947[241]. "Otto…rex" granted property "in comitatu Herimanni ducis Rehzia" to "abbati nostro Hartberto" at the request of "filie nostre Ite…et Hermanni comitis" by charter dated 7 Apr 948[242]. "Otto…rex" confirmed a donation by "Liutolfo nostro filio eiusque…coniuge Ita" to Kloster Reichenau for the soul of "ducis nostri beate memorie Herimanni" by charter dated 1 Jan 950[243]. The Liber Anniversariorum of Einsiedeln records in May the donation of "Siernza" by "domina Ita…uxor Luitolfi ducis"[244]. Liudolf & his wife had [three] children:

a) MATHILDE (end 949-6 Nov 1011, bur Rellinghausen). Regino records the birth of "Mathildis filia Liutolfo" at the end of 949[245]. Abbess of Essen [965]. The Liber Anniversariorum of Einsiedeln records in May the donation of "Gruonowa" by "domina Mechthilt ducissa, Liutolfi ducis et Itæ ducisse filia"[246].

b) OTTO (954-Lucca 31 Oct 982, bur Aschaffenburg St Peter and Alexander). Regino records the birth of "Liutolfo filius Otto" in 954[247]. He was appointed OTTO Duke of Swabia in 973 by his uncle King Otto II in succession to Duke Burkhard III. "Otto…imperator augustus" confirmed donations of property "de locis Ozenheim, Tetingen…in pago Moiinegouwe in comitatu Eberhardi comitis" by "nobis nepos et equivocus noster Otto dux Sweuorum" to "sancti Petri Ascaffaburg" by charter dated 29 Aug 975[248]. King Otto installed him as OTTO Duke of Bavaria in [976], after confiscating it from his cousin Heinrich II "der Zänker" Duke of Bavaria[249], although Carinthia and the Italian marches were taken from the duchy and made into the new duchy of Carinthia. "Otto…imperator augustus" donated property in Regensburg to Friedrich Archbishop of Salzburg by charter dated 21 Jul 976 after consulting "Ottonis Bauariorum ducis, nostri…fratris filii"[250]. He campaigned in Italy with his uncle King Otto II. He took part in the capture of Tarento, and in the battle 13 Jul 982 at which the German army was defeated by a Byzantine/Muslim alliance near Stilo in Calabria[251]. The death of "Otto dux egregius, filius Liudolfi, fratruelis Ottonis secundi", soon after this defeat, is recorded in the Annalista Saxo[252]. The necrology of St Gall records the death "II Kal Nov" of "Ottonis ducis Alamannie"[253]. He is presumably the "Otto dux Sueuorum" whose death is recorded "1 Nov" in The necrology of Merseburg[254].

2. LIUTGARD ([931]-18 Nov 953, bur St Alban, near Mainz). The Annales Quedlingburgenes name "Liudolfo et Liutgarde" as the two children of King Otto I and Eadgyth[255]. Widukind records her marriage to "Conrado"[256]. According to Thietmar of Merseburg, Liutgard was accused by "a certain Cono" of adultery but her name was cleared after Graf Burkhard fought her accuser in combat in her name[257]. "Otto…rex" granted property confiscated from "Hatto Aladramque fratres…in villis Bechi et Auici situm in pago Ganipi in comitatu Arnulfi" to the church of St Florin, Koblenz at the request of "ducis nostri Cuonradi eius coniugis filiæ nostræ Liutgartæ" by charter dated 22 Nov 949[258]. Regino records the death of "Liutgarda filia regis" in 953[259]. The necrology of Merseburg records the death "18 Nov" of "Liudgard filia imperatoris Ottonis"[260]. Thietmar records her burial in "the church of…Alban at Mainz"[261].

m ([947]%29 KONRAD "der Rote" Graf in Franconia Duke of Lotharingia [Salian], son of WERNER Graf im Nahe-, Speyer- und Wormsgau & his wife --- [Konradiner] (-killed in battle Lechfeld 10 Aug 955, bur Worms Cathedral[262]). "Conradus dux" is named husband of Liutgard when recording their marriage in 949[263]. He rebelled against his father-in-law, together with his brother-in-law Liudolf Duke of Swabia, but was ultimately forgiven although deposed as Duke of Lotharingia. Thietmar records that Duke Konrad, son-in-law of Emperor Otto I, was killed fighting the Magyars near Augsburg and that he was buried at Worms[264].

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Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

1. Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red
2. Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)
Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The tests at Bristol will check, via isotope tests on tooth enamel, whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as history has suggested.

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Rather inconclusive piece about finding her remains (maybe) in Magdeburg Cathedral.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8467870.stm

Eadgyth (?) (1)

F, #102451, d. 26 January 946

Last Edited=3 Dec 2005

Eadgyth (?) was the daughter of Eadweard I, King of Wessex and Ælflæd (?). (2) She married Otto I von Sachsen, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Heinrich I von Sachsen, Holy Roman Emperor and Matilda of Ringelheim, between 925 and 930. (3)
She died on 26 January 946 at Germany. (4), (1) She was buried at Cathedral of St. Maurice, Magdeburg, Germany. (3)

Eadgyth (?) was also known as Edith (?). (3)
Children of Eadgyth (?) and Otto I von Sachsen, Holy Roman Emperor

-1. Richilde von Sachsen+

-2. Liudolf, Duke of Swabia+ (3) d. 957

-3. Liutgarde von Sachsen+ (3)

-4. Otto II von Sachsen, Holy Roman Emperor+ (5) d. 983

Forrás / Source:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p10246.htm#i102451

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

King Athelstan of England sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history. (According to the entry for Boleslaus II of Bohemia, Adiva was his wife.)

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald, and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Eadgyth

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ædgyth or Edith of England (910 - 26 January 946) was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd.

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

King Athelstan of England sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history. (According to the entry for Boleslaus II of Bohemia, Adiva was his wife.)

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald, and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6, 957)

Her tomb is located at the Cathedral of Magdeburg.

Edith of England (910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd.

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

King Athelstan of England sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history. (According to the entry for Boleslaus II of Bohemia, Adiva was his wife.)

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald, and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6, 957)

Her tomb is located at the Cathedral of Magdeburg.

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)

Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The tests at Bristol will check, via isotope tests on tooth enamel, whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as history has suggested

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Eadgyth

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A statue in the Cathedral of Magdeburg that is often assumed to represent Otto and Edith

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Contents

[show]

• 1 Life
• 2 Children
• 3 Tomb
• 4 Ancestry
• 5 References
• 6 Sources
• 7 External links

[edit] Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

In 936 King Henry I of Germany died and his eldest son, Eadgyth's husband, was crowned at Aachen as King Otto I. There is a surviving report of the ceremony by Widukind of Corvey which makes no mention of his wife having been crowned at this point, but according to Thietmar of Merseburg's chronicle Eadgyth was nevertheless anointed as queen, albeit in a separate ceremony. As queen, Eadgyth undertook the usual state duties of "First lady": when she turns up in the records it is generally in connection with gifts to the state's favoured monasteries or memorials to female holy women and saints. In this respect she seems to have been more diligent than her now widowed and subsequently sainted mother-in-law Queen Matilda whose own charitable activities only achieve a single recorded mention from the period of Eadgyth's time as queen. There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.

Eadgyth accompanied her husband on his travels, though not during battles. She spent the hostilities of 939 at Lorsch Abbey

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

Eadgyth's death at a relatively young age was unexpected.

[edit] Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

1. Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red
2. Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)
[edit] Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The investigations at Bristol, applying isotope tests on tooth enamel, checked whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as written history has indicated.[1][2] Testing on the bones revealed that they are the remains of Eadgyth, from study made of the enamel of the teeth in her upper jaw.[3] Testing of the enamel revealed that the individual entombed at Magdeburg had spent time as a youth in the chalky uplands of Wessex.[4]

"Tests on these isotopes can give a precise record of where the person lived up to the age of 14," noted The Times of London in its story on the testing. "In this case they showed that the woman in the casket had spent the first years of her life drinking water that came from springs on the chalk hills of southern England. This matched exactly the historical records of Eadgyth’s early life."[5]

The bones "are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial," Bristol University announced in a press release.[6]

References

1. ^ a b Kennedy, Maev (20 January 2010). "Remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter returned / Coming home: the Saxon queen lost for 1,000 years". The Guardian (London): pp. 5. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/20/alfred-great-granddau.... Retrieved 20 January 2010.
2. ^ Satter, Raphael G. (20 Jan 2010). "Discovery News". Bones of early English princess found in Germany. http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/english-princess-bones.html. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
3. ^ German cathedral bones 'are Saxon queen Eadgyth, BBC News, 16 June 2010
4. ^ Remains of first king of England's sister found in German cathedral, The Guardian, 17 June 2010
5. ^ The Times, Simon de Bruxelles, 17 June 2010
6. ^ Bones confirmed as those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth, University of Bristol, 17 June 2010
[edit] Sources

• Freytag von Loringhoven, Baron. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, 1965.
• Klaniczay, Gábor. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses, 2002.

[edit] External links

Familypedia.jpg Eadgyth of Wessex (910-946) on Familypedia

• The life of an Anglo-Saxon princess, Michael Wood, The Guardian, 17 June 2010
• How the study of teeth is revealing our history, Mike Pitts, The Guardian, 17 June 2010

This page was last modified on 26 July 2010 at 18:28.

Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð; 910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Contents [hide]

1 Life

2 Children

3 Tomb

4 References

5 Sources

[edit]Life

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]

[edit]Children

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)

[edit]Tomb

Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The tests at Bristol will check, via isotope tests on tooth enamel, whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as history has suggested.[1][2]

[edit]References

^ a b Kennedy, Maev (20 January 2010). "Guardian.co.uk" (in English). Remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter returned / Coming home: the Saxon queen lost for 1,000 years (Guardian): pp. 5. Retrieved 20 January 2010.

^ Satter, Raphael G. (20 Jan 2010). "Discovery News" (in English). Bones of early English princess found in Germany. Retrieved 21 January 2010.

[edit]Sources

Freytag von Loringhoven, Baron. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, 1965.

Klaniczay, Gábor. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses, 2002.

Preceded by

Matilda of Ringelheim Queen consort of Germany

936 – 946 Succeeded by

Adelaide of Italy

Preceded by

Matilda of Ringelheim Duchess consort of Saxony

2 July 936 – 26 January 946 Succeeded by

Adelaide of Italy

Edith of England (910 - 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd.

Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith.

King Athelstan of England sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history. (According to the entry for Boleslaus II of Bohemia, Adiva was his wife.)

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald, and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Edith and Otto's children were:

Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6, 957)

Her tomb is located at the Cathedral of Magdeburg.

EadgythFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people named Eadgyth, see Eadgyth (disambiguation). A statue in the Cathedral of Magdeburg that is often assumed to represent Otto and Edith Edith of England (Old English: Ēadgȳð) (910 – 26 January 946), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Ælfflæd, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Contents [hide]
1 Life

2 Children
3 Tomb
4 Ancestry
5 References
6 Sources
7 External links
[edit] Life Her paternal grandparents were Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

In order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony (later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) to choose whichever one pleased him best. Otto chose Edith and married her in 929. The remaining sister Algiva or Adiva was married to a "king near the Jupiter mountains" (the Alps). The precise identity of this sister is debated. She may have been Eadgifu of England, who married King Charles III of France, or another sister otherwise unknown to history.
In 936 King Henry I of Germany died and his eldest son, Eadgyth's husband, was crowned at Aachen as King Otto I. There is a surviving report of the ceremony by Widukind of Corvey which makes no mention of his wife having been crowned at this point, but according to Thietmar of Merseburg's chronicle Eadgyth was nevertheless anointed as queen, albeit in a separate ceremony. As queen, Eadgyth undertook the usual state duties of "First lady": when she turns up in the records it is generally in connection with gifts to the state's favoured monasteries or memorials to female holy women and saints. In this respect she seems to have been more diligent than her now widowed and subsequently sainted mother-in-law Queen Matilda whose own charitable activities only achieve a single recorded mention from the period of Eadgyth's time as queen. There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.
Eadgyth accompanied her husband on his travels, though not during battles. She spent the hostilities of 939 at Lorsch Abbey
Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor. Her lasting influence may have caused certain monasteries and churches in Saxony to be dedicated to this saint.[1]
Eadgyth's death at a relatively young age was unexpected.
[edit] Children Edith and Otto's children were:
1.Liutgarde, married Conrad the Red
2.Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930-September 6 957)
[edit] Tomb Her tomb is located in the Cathedral of Magdeburg. A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510. It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that "this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal." The investigations at Bristol, applying isotope tests on tooth enamel, checked whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as written history has indicated.[1][2] Testing on the bones revealed that they are the remains of Eadgyth, from study made of the enamel of the teeth in her upper jaw.[3] Testing of the enamel revealed that the individual entombed at Magdeburg had spent time as a youth in the chalky uplands of Wessex.[4]
"Tests on these isotopes can give a precise record of where the person lived up to the age of 14," noted The Times of London in its story on the testing. "In this case they showed that the woman in the casket had spent the first years of her life drinking water that came from springs on the chalk hills of southern England. This matched exactly the historical records of Eadgyth’s early life."[5]
The bones "are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial," Bristol University announced in a press release.[6]
Following the tests the bones shall be re-interred in Magdeburg Cathedral on 22 October 2010.
[edit] References 1.^ a b Kennedy, Maev (20 January 2010). "Remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter returned / Coming home: the Saxon queen lost for 1,000 years". The Guardian (London): pp. 5. Retrieved 20 January 2010.

2.^ Satter, Raphael G. (20 January 2010). "Discovery News". Bones of early English princess found in Germany. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
3.^ German cathedral bones 'are Saxon queen Eadgyth, BBC News, 16 June 2010
4.^ Remains of first king of England's sister found in German cathedral, The Guardian, 17 June 2010
5.^ The Times, Simon de Bruxelles, 17 June 2010
6.^ Bones confirmed as those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth, University of Bristol, 17 June 2010
[edit] Sources Freytag von Loringhoven, Baron. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, 1965.
Klaniczay, Gábor. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses, 2002.
[edit] External links Eadgyth of Wessex (910-946) on Familypedia
The life of an Anglo-Saxon princess, Michael Wood, The Guardian, 17 June 2010

How the study of teeth is revealing our history, Mike Pitts, The Guardian, 17 June 2010
Preceded by
Matilda of Ringelheim Queen consort of Germany
936–946 Succeeded by
Adelaide of Italy
Preceded by

Matilda of Ringelheim Duchess consort of Saxony
2 July 936 – 26 January 946 Succeeded by
Adelaide of Italy
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Prinsesse av England.

Kilder:

Dictionary of National Biography. Mogens Bugge: Våre forfedre, nr. 215. Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre, side 67, 103.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadgyth

Born in 910, died in 946.
Her Grandfather was Alfred of England and her ftaher was Edward, king of England. After the divorce of her parents 919 she moved into a convent in Salisbury.

Married in 929AC at age 19 to Otto of Germany, who gave her the City of Magdeburg in morning gift. Otto was crowned kejser by the Pope in 946 just after her death. Buried in the Dom of Magdeburg, Germany. To be reburied in a coffin of Titanium and Silver, designed by Kornelia Thümmel. Source: ritzau/dpa

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Anglosaský kníže Cerdik připlul do Británie roku 494 a zválcoval to tam tak, jak je pěkným zvykem dobyvatelů (navíc to bylo v době, kdy ještě jako správný dobyvatel v tehdejší Evropě, byl nekřesťanským barbarem) a poté, roku 519 založil království Wessex. Když v roce 530 připojil ostrov Wight, mohl s klidným svědomím dobře vykonané práce o čtyři roky později zemřít.
Jeho potomci, tedy Cerdikovci, to neměli vždycky snadné, nicméně svoji říši stále rozšiřovali, a odsuzovali tak okolní královské panovnické rody k postupnému vymření, v zapomenutí. Byla to anglická (a dřívější) obdoba, jako u našich Přemyslovců (versus Slavníkovci), nicméně Cerdikovci museli těch vedlejších království spolknout sedm, než se mohli nazývat králi anglosaskými, tedy potažmo anglickými. Cerdikovci se samozřejmě hned stali, po (a pro) upevnění své moci, křesťany.
Jenže potom je začali, po zhruba třista letech, napadat jejich, vlastně mladší, příbuzní Dánové, ve stejně drsné podobě, jako to dělali dříve sami Anglosasové. To už byli Cerdikovci kulturně tak na výši, že nejvýznamnější z nich, král Alfréd Veliký nejenom, že se dobře bránil dánským nájezdníkům, ale stal se také významným anglosaským dějepiscem, překladatelem a spisovatelem.
Poté Cerdikovci usoudili, že by se potřebovali dostat z ostrovní izolace, tedy spíše hledali na pevnině spojence proti normanským (v tomto případě již zmiňovaným dánským) nájezdníkům.
Syn Alfréda Velikého, – král Edward I. Starší, měl dcer na rozdávání, a tak začalo vdávání. Princezna Eadgiva byla provdána za krále Karla Prosťáčka, kterého někteří méně ohleduplní historici nazývají Karlem Pitomým. Další princezna Eadhilda za francouzského vévodu Huga.
Poněvadž král Edward zemřel, pokračoval ve vdavkách jeho syn, král Athelstan. Ten byl požádán králem německým Jindřichem I. Ptáčníkem, aby mu poslal nějakou dceru (tedy vlastně v případě Athelstana sestru) pro jeho syna, pozdějšího císaře Otu I. Velikého. Athelstan, snad aby neměl tolik práce, a také protože věděl, že král Jindřich má v Evropě velké slovo, poslal mu hned dvě své sestry princezny a dal mu je tak k dispozici. Ta starší se jmenovala Eadgifa. Vzhledem k odstrašujícímu jménu (stejně na tom ovšem byly i její ostatní sestry), které ani germánským Sasům nebylo po chuti, přejmenovali ji na Editu, a pod tímto jménem byla za následníka trůnu Otu provdána.
To co bylo doposud řečeno, je v kostce historie, která je celkem známá. Problém je, a to je vlastní příběh této kapitoly, se zmiňovanou druhou, mladší dcerou krále Edwarda I. Staršího, která byla poslána do Saska spolu se svou sestrou Editou.
Časově to bylo tak: Roku 928 bylo Ptáčníkovo poselstvo se žádostí o nevěstu v Anglii, a už v příštím roce, tedy 929 byla svatba Oty a Edity v Sasku. Kam ovšem zmizela ta nejmladší cerdikovská princezna?
V pohádkách většinou je to tak, že nejmladší slízne smetanu. Hrdinný princ vysvobodí sice i její starší sestry – tedy dohromady zpravidla tři -, ale vezme si vždycky tu nejmladší, poněvadž je samozřejmě nejkrásnější a má ze všech nejlepší povahu. Abychom nezapomněli, je také ještě nutně skromná.
Tato princezna se prý jmenovala Aelfgifu a z velké historie nám mizí. I když ne tak docela, jenom ty zprávy o ní jsou nejasné. V podstatě se ví jenom to, že byla také provdána, jako její sestry. Ovšem za koho, to je ta otázka. Dodejme, že je ta otázka pro nás Čechy dost důležitá, neboť je docela slušná pravděpodobnost, že byla provdána právě za českého knížete.
Pokud by to tak bylo, znamená to, že Přemyslovci by byli už v té době spojeni s jedním z nejstarších panovnických rodů Evropy. Cerdikovci jsou, mimo jiné, starší rod než třeba Karlovci (správněji by mělo být Arnulfovci), tedy rod z něhož pocházel císař Karel Veliký. Bylo by to z tohoto pohledu vlastně s podivem, neboť v době příchodu obou sester do Saska byly české země (lépe řečeno samotné Čechy) na periferii vyspělejšího západního světa. Nejednalo by se ale o messalianci, nebo-li takzvaný morganatický sňatek, protože oba manželé pocházeli z panovnických rodů, ale bylo by to rozhodně v té době nezvyklé. Anglická princezna si bere českého knížete, přičemž bych si vsadil, že na ostrově, v té době, skoro nikdo neví co, a kde Čechy jsou, ale zároveň naopak, že je nějaká Anglie, nemají v Čechách také ani ponětí. Nicméně, má to svoji logiku.
Češi, byť byli tehdy na periferii, začali se právě zapojovat do evropského politického kolotoče, a prvním prostředníkem nám nebyl nikdo jiný, než jako mnohokrát později německý soused, což v té době znamenalo, saský královský dvůr. Bylo to v době českého knížete Václava (později Svatého), ve které anglické princezny dorazily do Saska.
Jsou poměrně dobře známy Václavovi blízké kontakty se saským králem Jindřichem Ptáčníkem. Ať už se jedná o tolikrát diskutovaných a kritizovaných, odevzdávaných pěti stech volech (vtipálci to nekritizovali ale říkali, že jich česká země za rok urodila více, a tedy ten poplatek, že mohl být klidně větší), ale také o dobrých vztazích a zejména, jakémsi zvláštním obdivu krále Jindřicha k osobě českého knížete. To říkají ovšem legendy.
Vraťme se však k té ztracené princezně. Podobně, jako její sestra, byla Aelfgifu v Německu přejmenována, dle jednoho pramene prý na Adivu. Každý soudný člověk musí uznat, že jak je to původní jméno hrůzostrašné, tak je Adiva jméno krásné, a přitom se říká, že Němci nemají vkus. Pod jménem Adiva si ani nelze představit nějakou ošklivou princeznu, a tak se zdá, že se naplňuje pohádka o nejmladší a nejkrásnější.
Vraťme se však ještě k jejímu původu. Její matkou byla druhá manželka (ze tří) krále Edwarda I. Staršího a jmenovala se Ealfleda. Pro zajímavost, král Edward měl snad sedmnáct legitimních dětí a z toho deset dcer. Je jasné, že provdat je všechny bylo nemožné, protože rodem rovných manželů nebylo. Navíc by se také jednalo o věna pro jednotlivé princezny a tak není divu, že asi polovina z nich skončila v klášterech. Není také divu, že jeho syn Athelstan na žádost o jednu princeznu poslal hned dvě. Adiva, tedy ještě pro upřesnění, nebyla úplně ta nejmladší, nicméně, protože se vůbec provdala, tak měla vlastně obrovské štěstí. Vypadá to, že ji rodina dala králi Jindřichovi k dispozici s tím, ať se o ní postará. Dala mu ji s největší pravděpodobností bez věna, tedy aspoň takovém, o kterém vůbec mohla být řeč. Jenže, dobrá krev, to tehdy a ještě dlouho potom, velmi platilo.
Nyní se ve zkratce podíváme do skromných pramenů, které vyprávějí o naší princezně. V době, kdy žila Adiva, ještě žádný kronikář v Čechách nebyl, tak jsou to tedy prameny pouze cizí:
Časově nejbližší k událostem o nichž píšeme je oslavná báseň na císaře Otu Velikého zvaná Gesta Oddonis, od abatyše Hrotsuithy (narozené roku 935) někdy z druhé poloviny desátého století, kde se říká, že princezna Aelfgyfu je známa v Německu, jako Adiva. .
Dle anglosaské kroniky z konce desátého století autora Ethelwerda (z téže královské dynastie jako Adiva), který se v ní vyptává abatyše Matyldy (vnučky Oty I. Velikého), jak to bylo s dcerami krále Edwarda, tak ta vyjmenovává ty sestry, které jsme již "provdávali" výše v tomto textu. Všechny je přitom pojmenovává, ovšem u Adivy se zdrží pouze na tom, že tato sestra (beze jména) byla provdána za krále nedaleko Jupiterových hor (míněny jsou Alpy).
Další je kronika Ingulfova. Uvádí se sice o ní, že je padělkem, nicméně některé údaje jsou použitelné. No tedy, -neví se bohužel, které to zrovna jsou. Přesto, píše se v ní, že manželem Adivy byl veliký kníže Jindřichova dvora.
Nakonec ještě informace z kroniky Wiliama Malmesburského. Je ze dvanáctého století a tvrdí se v ní, že Adiva byla provdána za vévodu nedaleko Alp. Přitom se ví, že autor vycházel určitě z jiného pramene než Ethelwerd.
Nuže shrňme si to: Určitě víme, že Adiva byla provdána za nějakého panovníka. Nevíme, jestli byl král, vévoda nebo kníže, ale to není tak podstatné, protože tyto pojmy se mohly snadno zaměňovat. Dále víme, že ten panovník sídlil nedaleko Alp. Nedaleko Alp je sice půlka Evropy, ale pokud tím šťastným manželem byl některý z "Jindřichova dvora" tak by to měl být patrně někdo ze sousedství Saska, ovšem směrem k Alpám, tedy generelně na jih. Přímo na jih od Saska jsou části Německa, tehdy zejména Švábsko a Bavorsko. Čechy jsou na jihovýchod.
Pro okolnost, že Adiva byla provdána do Čech, mluví především tyto okolnosti. Je pravděpodobné, že byla provdána za nějakého panovníka z blízkého sousedství, protože ti byli díky častým stykům hned na ráně, a nebylo nutné dlouhé vyjednávání, které se asi králi Jindřichovi, pro tak trochu nadbytečnou princeznu, nechtělo podstupovat. To znamená, že byla pravděpodobně provdána buď, blízko-jižnímu německému sousedovi, nebo do Čech. Podle mého, největší nepřímý důkaz, že byla skutečně dána za manželku českému knížeti spočívá právě v tom, že se to o ní neví. Protože, kdyby byla provdána někde v Německu a dokonce za panovníka, tak v tamní již poměrně vyspělé kronikářsko-historické obci by musela být nějaká konkrétní zpráva, který z těch vládců to opravdu byl. Tam totiž v té době (na rozdíl od tehdejší situace v Čechách) bylo po různých klášterech vzdělaných psavců poměrně dost. Právě proto, že se o ní zmiňují tak neurčitě, je zřejmé, že je to příliš nezajímalo. A není možno se divit, – nějaká svatba v Čechách pro ně nic neznamenala, pokud se jich přímo nějak nedotýkala.
U nás je pohled na Adivu nejednotný, jak ani nemůže být jinak, když je o ní tak málo informací. Historici, kteří její existenci připouštějí, ji většinou přisuzují za manželku českému knížeti Boleslavu II. zvanému také Pobožný. Usuzuje se tak především z toho, že se našel typ stříbrného denáru (první české platidlo, které se vyrábělo během času v mnoha verzích), na kterém se dá číst jméno ADIVA, přičemž je známo, že na jiných denárech jsou také jména zase jiných manželek přemyslovských knížat. Předpokládá se, že tyto denáry se vyráběli právě v době vlády Boleslava II.. Další důvod, proč bývá přisuzována k Boleslavu II. je ten, že byli oba přibližně stejně staří. Ten důvod ovšem ve světle nejnovějších dohadů o skutečných datech narození prvních Přemyslovců je, mírně řečeno, zcela na vodě.
Je tu ještě jedna trochu nepovšimnutá nesrovnalost. Boleslav II. Pobožný, byl oblíbencem našeho kronikáře Kosmase, na rozdíl od svého otce Boleslava Ukrutného. Bylo to samozřejmě kvůli Václavově vraždě. Oni oba dva byli ve skutečnosti podobnými "dobráky", jinak by se totiž nemohli stát velmi úspěšnými panovníky. Nicméně, ačkoliv Kosmas věděl o svatbě následníka Oty s její sestrou Editou, Adivu nepřipsal svému oblíbenci. Z toho vyplývá, že o ní, jako manželce Boleslava II. nic nevěděl, jinak by nám to řekl!
Já osobně si myslím, že pokud Adiva byla provdána do Čech, tak to dost dobře nemohlo být za knížete Boleslava II., protože i když o ní máme málo znalostí, tak i z těch skrovných pramenů celkem jednoznačně vyplývá, že byla provdána za panovníka. V Čechách tedy přicházejí z časových důvodů v úvahu pouze kníže Václav (Svatý) nebo jeho bratr Boleslav I. Kruťas.
Podle časové linky je to jasné. Adiva přišla se sestrou do Saska v roce 928. Asi nebyla provdána dříve než její sestra Edita, tedy počítejme, že v roce 929. V roce 928 jí mělo být třináct až čtrnáct let. To znamená, že už byla věkem vhodná k vdavkám v blízké budoucnosti, dokonce klidně bychom můžeme říci, že se mohla vdávat vlastně okamžitě.
O datech narozeních prvních Přemyslovců toho víme málo a teorie si odporují, ovšem v tomto případě nás to nezajímá. Podstatná je doba panování. Jak víme, svatý Václav byl zavražděn roku 935, i když se občas ještě objevuje datum 929. Pokud tedy platí rok 935, je docela velká pravděpodobnost, že mohl tím ženichem být právě on. Proč by se čekalo se svatbou déle? Konec konců přes rok 935 by to ještě šlo, to Adivě mělo být dvacet až dvacet jedna let, tedy pro Boleslava I. rozhodně nebyla stará, byť u něj nevíme, kdy se narodil. Můžeme však s velkou tolerancí říci, že Boleslavův věk v roce 935 se musel pohybovat v rozmezí dvacet jedna až třicet jedna let. To tedy sedí pěkně. Je tedy jasné, že pokud by Adiva byla provdána za Boleslava II. Mohlo by se to stát až po roce 972 (dříve se uvádělo 967), kdy Boleslav II. nastoupil na trůn. V tom případě by Adivě v době svatby bylo už padesát šest až padesát sedm let, což si při nejlepší vůli nemůžeme, ze všech možných důvodů, ani představit. Samozřejmě vycházíme z předpokladu, který ovšem byl vícekrát kronikáři zmíněn (nezávisle na sobě), že Adiva si vzala panovníka, vládce, velikého knížete, vévodu, krále, – a ne nějakého potencionálního následníka!
Jak tak spekulujeme, a my si to můžeme dovolit o trochu více než vědecká historická obec, pokusme se vypátrat, nebo snad spíše se přiklonit k pravděpodobnějšímu jménu možného manžela Adivy.
Jak jsem řekl, časově vycházejí pouze dva možní čeští panovníci. Svatý Václav a jeho mladší bratr Boleslav I.. Ovšem, že by Svatý Václav měl manželku, o tom jistě většina čtenářů nic neví. Je to ovšem pochopitelné. Informace o něm jsou čerpány především ze svatováclavských legend, a v nich osobnost manželky, tedy pokud by byla, nebyla důležitá. V pozdějších dobách (ono to vlastně bylo brzy po Václavově smrti), kdy se Václavova adorace měnila na státně-náboženský kult, by její přítomnost působila možná dokonce až rušivě.
Přesto, v některých svatováclavských legendách se dočteme o přítomnosti ženy v jeho životě. Není sice vždy jasné, zda se jedná o manželku či konkubínu, nicméně nějakou ženu asi měl, dokonce v jedné legendě se i píše, že s ní měl syna jménem Zbraslav. Nemusel být tedy (a také rozhodně nebyl!) ve skutečnosti Václav až tak přehnaně "svatý", jak žije v běžných představách.
Pro Václava, jako manžela Adivy především hovoří to, že z hlediska časové logiky by měla být Editina sestra provdána v přibližně stejném čase, popřípadě s menším zpožděním, jako Edita sama, tedy v roce 929 nebo o chvíli později. Václav zemřel roku 935 (pokud vyloučíme zmiňovanou tradici roku 929). Protože jeho smrt nebyla očekávána, myslím tím, že nebyl stařec, samo se nabízí, komu by asi Jindřich Ptáčník princeznu, která je volná a navíc trochu přebytečná, nabídl, a přitom se zbavil starostí s odpovědností za ni.
Proti sňatku s Václavem nejvíce mluví to, že denár s nápisem ADIVA, jediný hmatatelný doklad její existence v Čechách (tedy pokud ten nápis čteme správně, což někteří, chce se říci z hlediska tohoto tématu škarohlídi, také zpochybňují), nemohl vzniknout, podle shody numismatické obce, v době vlády knížete Václava. Adiva mohla samozřejmě žít déle než její hypotetický manžel Václav, ale není zatím dost dobře možno najít důvod, proč by za pozdější vlády knížete Boleslava I., respektive i Boleslava II. mělo být na mincích jméno jeho švagrové a v druhém případě tety. I když, jeden důvod by tu možná byl, necháme jej však zatím na potom.
Ještě k těm českým denárům. Nechtěl bych unavovat dychtivého, neusínajícího čtenáře přílišnou numismatickou odborností, ale opominout se to nedá. Ačkoliv denáry, co by první české peníze, byly velmi podrobně vědecky zkoumány, je to jako s celou dobou desátého století. Příliš málo informací, a tedy i výsledky v této oblasti bývají sice dokumentačně bohaté, ale s časovým určením vzniku určitého typu denáru (kterých bylo hodně) je to velmi složité. Mince s nápisem ADIVA, je mincí takzvaného byzantinizujícího typu, a její datování se odhaduje převážně do třetí čtvrtiny desátého století. Ale teď. Mince je charakteristická hlavou ženy, a je velmi blízká anglické minci typu sceata, která se ovšem razila v Anglii pouze v devátém století, a to jako mince arcibiskupská. A odkud Adiva pochází?
Právě největší potíž je v tom, odkdy přesně se u nás denárové mince začaly vyrábět a používat. Jedno je jisté, pozdější denáry, hned po denáru s nápisem Adiva, se začaly vyrábět podle anglosaského vzoru (tzv. ethelredského typu). Že to tak je, je velmi zvláštní v Čechách, a ještě podivnější proto, že ani nikde jinde v Evropě se tyto anglosaské vzory nepoužívaly. Výjimku tvořilo pouze Dánsko, které ovšem mělo v těch dobách čilé a živé (jak jsme na začátku popsali) styky právě s Anglií. No, něco to může vypovídat. Třeba o tom, že nápis Adiva mohl vzniknout v době, kdy už Adiva byla vdovou, nicméně zasloužila se nějakým způsobem o novou minci. Mimochodem mincmistři byli na mincích běžně označováni.
Je tady ale ještě jeden poměrně nový poznatek. V roce 1998 byla v Kazani na území kazaňského kremlu (Tatarstán v Rusku)) během výkopových prací nalezena česká mince (denár). Po delších peripetiích se dostala k nám do Národního muzea. Naši numismatici ustrnuli, neboť se jedná o olověnou minci (proto spíše o ozdobu nebo pečeť) z doby panování knížete Václava, která měla být ražena někdy okolo roku 930. Tedy posouvá se vznik prvních mincí v Čechách k roku 930, což je o 25 let dříve, než bylo dosud tvrzeno. Datování mince s nápisem Adiva je tedy snad možno přehodnotit. Rozhodně se zvýšila pravděpodobnost, že tento denár (s nápisem Adiva) mohl být časově shodný s dobou po sňatku Adivy s českým knížetem, třeba i dlouho po Václavově smrti.
Zanechejme starostí s penězi, těch má každý dost sám, a věnujme se té druhé možnosti, že manželem Adivy byl Boleslav Kruťas.
O něm se sice ví, že byl ženatý, a možná i vícekrát. Měl dva syny a dvě dcery. Jeho manželka bývá uváděna (až v posledních desetiletích) jménem Biagota, která se dá číst také Blagota, což je kněžna stejně záhadná, jako je Adiva, protože dokladem její existence je také pouze denárová mince s jejím jménem a slovem manželka (samozřejmě latinsky). Dalo by se říci, že o Biagotě víme podstatně méně než o Adivě, neboť o té se aspoň něco v kronikách dočteme, ovšem o Biagotě nic. Jenom Kosmas má ve své kronice zmínku o manželce Boleslava I., kde o ní hovoří v tom smyslu, že byla výborná, či znamenitá, jenom, jak se jmenovala, tam nic není. Také si musíme uvědomit, že Kosmas psal svou kroniku přibližně sto devadesát let po předpokládaném sňatku Adivy. Mohl tedy myslet buď výbornou Adivu, nebo také znamenitou Biagotu. Otázkou je, jestli nebyly obě znamenité, ba dokonce se nabízí i myšlenka, zda se nemohlo jednat o jednu a tu samou osobu. Význam jména Biagota zatím nikdo nedovedl jasně a přesvědčivě vysvětlit.
Povšimněme si ještě dvou věcí. U jména Adiva (na denáru) není nic o tom, jakou měla hodnost, na rozdíl od pozdějšího denáru královny Emmy, ani že to byla manželka, na rozdíl od Biagoty. To může hovořit pro Svatého Václava, jako v té době již bývalého manžela.
S Boleslavem I. je tu ještě jeden problém. Bezprostředně po vraždě svatého Václava, tedy v době, kdy byl nejvyšší čas provdat za Boleslava Adivu (čekala by už v Sasku osm let), byly česko-saské vztahy, mírně řečeno, napjaté! Boleslav Kruťas odepřel Jindřichovi poslušnost, a začala válka. Král Jindřich Ptáčník sice hned v roce 936 zemřel, nicméně odbojného knížete chtěl přivézt k poslušnosti jeho syn, pozdější císař Ota I. Veliký (jak víme manžel Edity). Ze začátku byli Němci poráženi, ale nakonec, ovšem až po čtrnácti letech, zvítězila větší moc, a Boleslav byl přinucen podrobit se. Poté už s Říší problémy nebyly.
Kdy si tedy Boleslav mohl Adivu vzít? Je těžko představitelné, že by mu ji v Sasku během těch čtrnácti let dali. A potom? Jako na usmířenou? To by už ale Adivě bylo asi třicet pět let! Vyloučit se to ovšem nedá. Třeba byla už Biagota pochována, a on sháněl k dětem maminku.
Nebo je tu další možnost. Adiva byla do Čech dovezena jako nevěsta pro Václava nebo Boleslava, to už je jedno. Pochopitelně to bylo před Václavovou smrtí. A když už v Čechách byla, a Boleslav nebyl právě v tu chvíli ženatý, bylo jen přirozené, že by si Adivu, po Václavově smrti, vzal za ženu. Tím by se stal švagrem svému nepříteli (Otovi I.). Vrátit ji mohl těžko. Strčit ji do kláštera by třeba Kruťas rád udělal, ale to nebylo možné, v té době totiž žádný v Čechách nebyl. A provdat královskou dceru za někoho jiného než za knížete, to už vůbec nešlo!
Pokud by Boleslavovi ten možný sňatek okamžitě neprospěl ( mohl s tím do budoucnosti možná počítat), tak mu to rozhodně nemohlo uškodit, a budoucnost, ta je vždy ve hvězdách. A nezapomínejme, podle pohádky měla být Adiva i pěkná.
Aby bylo učiněno spravedlnosti zadost, musíme zmínit ještě jednu verzi osudu anglické princezny, kterou nazýváme Adivou. Podle jednoho pramene (dle W. Hahna) byla pod jménem Adelana provdána (jako první manželka) za burgundského krále Konráda z rodu Welfů. S ním měla mít, mimo možné jiné, dvě dcery. Jednou byla Gisela, manželka bavorského vévody Jindřicha II. a tou druhou dcerou měla být naše další záhadná manželka označovaná jako "královna" Emma, a která byla s jistotou skutečnou ženou Boleslava II. Pobožného (samozřejmě ona ano, jenom ten její původ je nejistý). Pro tuto verzi hovoří bezesporu ta blízkost Alp. Jsou tu ovšem jistá ale: Ve vyspělém burgundském prostředí by se snad o tom zachovaly nějaké konkrétní zprávy, a burgundský král Konrád by určitě slyšel nerad, že je sice velikým, ale jenom knížetem a navíc u Jindřichova královského dvora. Welfové byli starší rod, tedy hodnotnější, než Liudolfovci (pozdější Otonovci), ze kterého pocházel král Jindřich Ptáčník. Konec konců, mince s nápisem Adiva je česká, a ne burgundská!
Sami britští historikové o Adivě sice vědí, ale říkají na rovinu, většinou i bez spekulací, že koho si ve skutečnosti vzala, nelze zjistit.
Z toho co bylo zde popsáno si sice neuděláme jednoznačný závěr pro dvě základní otázky, ale přesto:
1) Byla Adiva provdána skutečně do Čech? Odpověď je podle mého, – s velkou pravděpodobností ano.
2) Kdo byl její manžel? To už je ošemetnější, ovšem dá se formuloval takto: Vypadá to spíše na Boleslava I., hlavně kvůli těm mincím. Ovšem, pokud by to byl sám svatý Václav, muselo by se jednat o velkolepý, a pravděpodobně promyšlený podvod na potomky tehdejších Čechů, korunovaný praktickým vymazáním kněžny Adivy z historie, ve které sice reálně figuruje, ale přesto je, jako Václavova manželka, úplně ztracená.

Bylo řečeno, že jediný hmatatelný doklad po kněžně Adivě je denárová mince s jejím jménem. To ale možná není pravda, jenom se tak autorovi hodilo, aby mohlo nakonec přijít překvapení:
Při archeologickém průzkumu pozůstatků nejstarších Přemyslovců uložených v kostele sv. Jiří na Pražském Hradě v sedmdesátých letech byla objevena kostra mladé ženy (hrob číslo 102), která byla pochována společně se dvěma malými dětmi (103 a 104) které byly staré, první jeden a půl roku a druhé byl několikaměsíční kojenec. Pracovně byla tato kostra odborníky archeology a antropology nazvána kněžnou Adivou. Všichni tři (tedy žena a dvě děti) měly shodnou krevní skupinu O. Je to skutečně Adiva?
Mohlo by být a kupodivu, mohlo by se to i snadno(?) vědecky ověřit. V sedmdesátých letech, kdy probíhal antropologický průzkum, si mohli odborníci o genetických testech nechat jenom zdát. Dnes ovšem, pokud by mladá žena, údajně ve věku šestnáct až sedmnáct let, měla shodné znaky s někým ze cerdikovské rodiny z té doby, nebylo by poté co řešit! Adiva by po více než tisíciletí byla znovu na světě. Pokud ne, otázka Adivy v Čechách by zůstala i nadále otevřená.
Samozřejmě, když už by bylo při tom testování, tak máme ve svatém Jiřím ještě jednu kněžnu, která je podle polohy nálezu určena přímo, jako manželka Boleslava I. (sám Kruťas ale ještě nalezen nebyl), ta ležela v hrobě s číslem 92 a dostala pracovní název, jak jinak, Biagota. Ta prý se dožila věku šedesát až sedmdesát let.
A aby tomu nebyl konec, v chrámu sv. Víta, přímo v bývalé rotundě, kde byl pohřben Sv. Václav jsou ještě další dva hroby. K1 s mužskou kostrou, který je přisuzován Bořivojovi I. (historicky nejstaršímu českému knížeti) ale také je zmiňována možnost, že se jedná Boleslava I. Ukrutného. Vedle tohoto hrobu je další s označením K2. Tam jsou ostatky zničeny a zachována je v podstatě jenom stehenní kost. Je pravděpodobné, že se jedná o kost ženskou. Komu patří (?), a že by měla tato kost být podrobena také testování, v tomto případě je samozřejmé.
Řekněme si, co by v případě pozitivních výsledků genetických z toho vyplývalo. Pokud by mladá žena z hrobu 102 byla Cerdikovna, tedy v tom případě bezpochyby Adiva, měla by být (z důvodu věku v době své smrti) manželkou knížete Václava a dvě malé děti by byly jejich společné, tedy děti svatého Václava (z nichž jedno by mohl být již zmiňovaný Zbraslav). Ostatně to by se také dalo ověřit, genetický materiál svatého Václava je k dispozici.
Pokud by, pro změnu, ta starší kněžna (pracovně Biagota) byla po testech shledána, jako Cerdikovna, byla by to opět bezpochyby Adiva, a dle dožitého věku a místa nálezu by z toho vyplývalo, že z velké pravděpodobností byla manželkou Boleslava I.
Kde ale vezmeme na genetické testy materiál? To je špatně položená otázka. Protože není problém, kde vzít biologické vzorky nějakého Cerdikovce nebo Cerdikovny, ale jak je odebrat.
Cerdikovců v té době byla celá řada, dcery byly roztroušeny po Evropě. Sestra Edita je pochována vedle svého manžela Oty I. Velikého v magdeburské katedrále. V Anglii také mají své panovníky z tohoto období pochovány. Králové Edward Starší (otec Adivy) a jeho syn Elward (její nevlastní bratr) jsou pohřbeni ve Winchesteru! Král Athelstan (bratr Adivy) zemřel 941 v Glocesteru a je pochován v opatství v Malmesbury.
Problém je spíše v tom, aby se tím někdo zabýval, získal povolení k těmto zkouškám respektive k odběru biologického materiálu z pozůstatků, což je problematika etická, administrativní a nakonec by byla i politická.
Na příkladu Adivy jsou vidět spojitosti Evropy na svou dobu až nečekané. Spojitosti v tomto případě především politické. V případě jejího znovuobjevení by to byla, ať chceme nebo ne, také politická událost, protože možné by to bylo pouze za spolupráce Čechů a Britů, popřípadě Němců. O těchto věcech ale přece také má být dnes tak frekventovaný pojem a skutečnost se jménem, – Evropská unie.

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