Ælfgifu "Saint Elgiva" of Shaftesbury ¹

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Saint Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, also known as Saint Elgiva (died 944)[1] was the first wife of Edmund I (r. 939\endash 946), by whom she bore two future kings, Eadwig (r. 955\endash 959) and Edgar (r. 959\endash 975). Like her mother Wynflaed, she had a close and special if unknown connection with the royal nunnery of Shaftesbury (Dorset), founded by King Alfred,[2] where she was buried and soon revered as a saint. According to a pre-Conquest tradition from Winchester, her feast day is 18 May.[3][4]

Ælfgifu married Edmund I, King of England, son of King Edward "the Elder" King of England and Eadgifu of Kent. (Edmund I, King of England was born in 921 in Wessex, England, died on 26 May 946 in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England and was buried in Glastonbury Abbey.)