Eadhild
{{Short description|English princess, the second wife of Hugh, duke of the Franks}}
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{{Infobox royalty|name=Eadhild|birth_date=Unknown|death_date={{circa| 937}}|spouse=Hugh the Great|father=Edward the Elder|mother=Ælfflæd}}
Eadhild (died 937) was an English princess, the second wife of Hugh, duke of the Franks. She was a daughter of Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons and his second wife Ælfflæd.Foot, 2011, p. xv
In 926 Edward's son, king Æthelstan, received an embassy from his cousin, Adelolf, Count of Boulogne, on behalf of Hugh, and Æthelstan agreed to give his half-sister, Eadhild, in marriage in return for an enormous quantity of gifts and relics. According to William of Malmesbury, these included spices, jewels, many swift horses, an elaborate onyx vase, a crown of solid gold, the sword of Constantine the Great, Charlemagne's lance and a piece of the Crown of Thorns.Foot, 2011, p. 18, 47-48, 192-193 Eadhild's full sister, Eadgifu, was the wife of the deposed king of the West Franks, Charles the Simple. Hugh was a potential rival for the Frankish throne, and Eadgifu may have promoted the marriage in order to sever a dangerous link between Hugh and Count Herbert of Vermandois.Foot, 2010, p. 246
Eadhild died childless in 937.Ortenberg, p. 228; Freeman, p. 234
Citations
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Sources
- {{cite book | last = Foot | first = Sarah | authorlink= Sarah Foot | title=Æthelstan: the first king of England|publisher=Yale University Press| year = 2011 |ISBN= 978-0-300-12535-1}}
- {{cite book|title=England and the Continent in the Tenth Century:Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947)|publisher=Brepols|year=2010|editor-first=David|editor-last=Rollason|editor2-first=Conrad|editor2-last=Leyser|editor3-first=Hannah|editor3-last=Williams|first=Sarah|last=Foot|chapter=Dynastic Strategies: The West Saxon Royal Family in Europe|isbn=9782503532080}}
- {{cite book|title=The History of the Norman Conquest of England|first=Edward Augustus|last= Freeman|authorlink=Edward Augustus Freeman|url=https://archive.org/details/historynormanco01unkngoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/historynormanco01unkngoog/page/n270 234]|quote=eadhild childless.|year=1867|publisher=Clarendon Press}}
- {{cite book|title=England and the Continent in the Tenth Century:Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947)|publisher=Brepols|year=2010|editor-first=David|editor-last=Rollason|editor2-first=Conrad|editor2-last=Leyser|editor3-first=Hannah|editor3-last=Williams|first=Veronica|last=Ortenberg|chapter='The King from Overseas: Why did Æthelstan Matter in Tenth-Century Continental Affairs?|isbn=9782503532080}}
External links
- {{PASE|13340|Eadhild 1}}
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Category:10th-century English people
Category:10th-century English women
Category:Year of birth unknown
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