feminine Ethelfleda

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old english (anglo-saxon)
Name Root:
ÆTHEL flæd > Æðelflæd
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This name derives from the Anglo-Saxon “Æðelflæd,” composed of two elements: “æthel” (noble) plus “flæd” (beauty, purity). The meaning is “noble beauty.” Æthelflæd was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his queen, Ealhswith. Æthelflæd was born at the height of the Viking invasions of England. Her father married her to Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. After his death in 911, she ruled Mercia until she died in 918. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle referred to her as the Myrcna hlæfdige, “Lady of the Mercians.”

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