Wynflaed

File:S 1539 Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950 (11th-century copy, BL Cotton Charters viii. 38).jpg Cotton Charters viii. 38)Charter [http://www.esawyer.org.uk/charter/1539.html S 1539] at the Electronic Sawyer]]

Wynflæd or Ƿynflæd (died {{circa|950 or 960}}) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and a major landowner in the areas of Hampshire, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire.PASE: {{PASE|16498|Wynnflæd 1|nm=1}}; Charter S1539 Wynflæd is likely a widow vowess primarily connected to royal foundation at Shaftesbury Abbey,{{Cite journal|last=Owen|first=Gale R.|date=December 1979|title=Wynflæd's wardrobe |journal=Anglo-Saxon England|language=en|volume=8|pages=195–222|doi=10.1017/S0263675100003082|issn=1474-0532}},{{Cite book|last=Foot|first=Sarah|title=Veiled Women, Volume 1: The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England|publisher=Routledge|location=London|year=2000|chapter="Widows and Vowesses"}} with further connections to royal nunnery at Wilton Abbey. There is ongoing debate if she was the mother of Aelfgifu of Shaftesbury and thus the grandmother of Kings Eadwig and Edgar the Peaceful.PASE: {{PASE|12721|Wynnflæd 4|nm=1}}; Charter S744, {{Cite book|last=Yorke|first=Barbara, A. E.|title=Edgar, King of the English 959-975: New Interpretations|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|year=2008|editor-last=Scragg|editor-first=Donald G.|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk|chapter="The Women in Edgar's Life"}}

Wynflæd's Will

Wynflæd's will has provided scholars with ample materials to better understand tenth-century England and Wessex in particular, including social conditions, material goods, familial strategies, religious women and legal processes.{{Cite journal|last=Owen|first=Gale R.|date=December 1979|title=Wynflæd's wardrobe |journal=Anglo-Saxon England|language=en|volume=8|pages=195–222|doi=10.1017/S0263675100003082|issn=1474-0532}},{{Cite book|last=Tollerton|first=Linda|date=2011|title=Wills and Will-Making in Anglo-Saxon England|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9781903153376|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk}},{{Cite journal|last=Crick|first=Julia|date=October 1999|title=Women, Posthumous Benefaction, and Family Strategy in Pre-Conquest England|journal=Journal of British Studies|language=en|volume=38|issue=4|pages=399–422|doi=10.1086/386201 }},{{Cite book|last=Weikert|first=Katherine|title=The Middle Ages Revisited: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Medieval Southern England Presented to Professor David A. Hinton|publisher=Archaeopress|year=2018|isbn=9781789690354|editor-last=Jervis|editor-first=Ben|location=Oxford|chapter=Of Pots and Pins: The Households of Late Anglo-Saxon Faccombe Netherton}} Her will lists holdings and estates including Faccombe Netherton (modern Netherton, Hampshire) and Charlton Horethorne along with further manors and lands, and moveable goods such as tents, chests, cups, and clothing.

In 2018–19, Wynflæd's will was displayed in the British Library exhibition Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War{{cite web|url=https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/10/anglo-saxon-kingdoms-a-once-in-a-generation-exhibition.html|title=Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: a once-in-a-generation exhibition|magazine=British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog|date=18 October 2018|access-date=23 December 2023}} and included in the exhibition catalogue edited by Claire Breay and Joanna Story.{{cite web|url=https://shop.bl.uk/products/anglo-saxon-kingdoms-paperback|title=Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Paperback)|magazine=British Library Shop|access-date=23 December 2023}}

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{{PASE|16498|Wynnflæd 1|nm=1}}, {{PASE|10200|Wynnflæd 2|nm=1}}, {{PASE|12721|Wynnflæd 4|nm=1}}, and {{PASE|12720|Wynnflæd 3}} may all relate to her.
[http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/09/wynflaed-and-the-price-of-fashion.html British Library blog]
[https://forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/wealthy-wynflaeds-wonderful-will/ Wealthy Wynflæd’s wonderful will]

Category:10th-century deaths

Category:10th-century English landowners

Category:10th-century English women

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