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Birth:          ABT  993 Mercia

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealdgyth_(floruit_1015%E2%80%931016)
Ealdgyth (circa 992 - after 1016), modern English Edith, born c. 992, may have been 
the name of the wife of Sigeferth son of Earngrim, thegn of the Seven Burghs, and 
later of King Edmund Ironside. She was probably the mother of Edmund's sons Edward 
the Exile and Edmund Ætheling.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Sigeferth and his brother Morcar, described 
as "foremost thegns of the Seven Burghs" were killed at an assembly of the English 
nobility at Oxford. Ealdorman Eadric Streona is said to have killed them 
"dishonourably" after having invited them to his rooms. The Seven Burghs, otherwise 
unknown, are presumed to have been the Five Burghs and Torksey and York. 
Following the killings, King Æthelred the Unready had the property of Sigeferth and 
Morcar seized and ordered that Sigeferth's widow, whose name the Chronicle does not 
record, should be detained at Malmesbury Abbey. The chronicle of John of Worcester 
calls her Ealdgyth.[1]

In the late summer of 1015, at some time between 15 August and 8 September, 
Edmund Ironside raised a revolt against his father King Æthelred. Either then, or 
perhaps even earlier, he removed Sigeferth's widow from Malmesbury, against his 
father's wishes, and married her. Sigeferth and Morcar's friends and allies supported 
Edmund after this.[2] While two charters issued by Edmund which mention his wife 
survive from about this time, neither of them contain her name in the surviving texts.
[3]

It is generally, but not universally, supposed that Ealdgyth, if that was her name, was 
the mother of Edmund Ironside's sons.[4] These were Edmund, who died young in 
exile, and Edward the Exile, who returned to England late in the reign of his uncle 
King Edward the Confessor and died soon afterwards. Whether she went into exile 
with her children following Edmund's death in 1016 is unknown.

One reason advanced for supposing that John of Worcester may have been mistaken 
in naming this woman Ealdgyth is that Sigeferth's brother Morcar had also been 
married to a woman named Ealdgyth.[5] This Ealdgyth was the daughter of Ælfthryth, 
and niece of Ælfhelm, Ealdorman of York and Wulfric Spot. While Ealdgyth is a 
common female name in the period, this coincidence has raised the suspicion that the 
Worcester chronicler has confused Sigeferth's widow with his sister-in-law.[6]
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I01405

Parents
OF MERCIA Aelfthryth (ABT  947 - )
MORCARSDOTTIR Eadlgyth (ABT  968 - )

Siblings
OF MERCIA Ealgyth (Ealdgyth) (Algitha) (ABT  993 - )

Marriage To OF THE SEVEN BOROUGHS Sigeferth (Siferth) (ABT  985 - 1015)
    m.  

Notes


Children by OF THE SEVEN BOROUGHS Sigeferth (Siferth) ABT  985 - 1015
OF THE SEVEN BOROUGHS Aelfgifu (ABT 1014 - )

Marriage To ____ Edmund II "Ironside" (ABT  988 - 30 Nov 1016)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Aethelred (Ethelred) II "The Unready" (ABT  966 - 23 Apr 1016)
____ Elgiva (Alfgifu) (Aelgifu) (Aelflaed) (ABT  966 - 1002)

Children by ____ Edmund II "Ironside" ABT  988 - 30 Nov 1016
____ Edward "Atheling" (1016 - 1057)

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