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Birth:          ABT 1014 Wessex, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I00632
I have made a general shift in dates to accomodate Godiva's (mother of Aelfgar) birth 
date according to Ancestral Roots and Encyclopedia Britannica.

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The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 23 Jun 1999, by Leo van de Pas:

From: Leo van de Pas (leovdpas AT iinet.net.au)
Subject: Re: Lady Godiva
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 1999/06/23

At 12:24 PM 6/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Leo van de Pas wrote:
>>
>> The son of Leofric and Godiva :
>>
>> Alfgar "the Saxon", Earl of Mercia,
>> died circa 1059/1062 was married to
>> Elfgifu, daughter of Sigeferth and
>> Ealdgyth.

>What is the basis for this statement. Assuming I have these names
>right, Ealdgyth would later become wife of Edmund Ironside, and mother
>of the exiled princes. It has been speculated that she was daughter of
>an earlier Ealdorman Morcar, and this would provide onomastic continuity
>with the younger Ealdorman of that name. Still, I know of no source
>that provides any clues either to the parents of Aelfgar's wife, nor
>that Sigeferth had a daughter.

>Oops [in a slightly later post]. I left out a generation. The hypothesis is that Ealdgyth 
was
>daughter of Aelfthryth, and maternal granddaughter of Morcar. This is
>given in Moriarty's Plantagenet Ancestry, based on an earlier hypothesis
>(by Richardson?). However, it does not include her having a daughter by
>Sigeferth, or the marriage of that daughter to Aelfgar

>taf [Todd A. Farmerie]

Last year I bought a wonderful book "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" translated and 
edited by Michael Swanton, there are a few family trees and in this is shown that 
Aelfgar, Earl of East Anglia 1051-1057, Earl of Mercia 1057 was married to Aelgifu, 
daughter of Siferth thegn of the Seven Boroughs (killed in 1015) and Ealdgyth 
(daughter of Aelfthryth) who secondly married Edmund Ironside, King of England. 
Aelfthryth (son of Wulfrun) is a brother of Aelfhelm, Ealdorman of Northumbria (killed 
1006) who in turn was father of Aelgifu married to Cnut King of England. These 
genealogical pages are the last of the book before the bibliography. I hope you have 
a copy otherwise would you like me to photocopy and post?

Best wishes

Leo van de Pas

Parents
OF THE SEVEN BOROUGHS Sigeferth (Siferth) (ABT  985 - 1015)
OF MERCIA Ealgyth (Ealdgyth) (Algitha) (ABT  993 - )

Siblings
OF THE SEVEN BOROUGHS Aelfgifu (ABT 1014 - )

Marriage To ____ Alfgar III (ABT 1025 - ABT 1060)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Leofric III (14 May  978 - 31 Aug 1057)
____ Godiva (Godgifu) (ABT 1010 - 10 Sep 1067)

Children by ____ Alfgar III ABT 1025 - ABT 1060
OF MERCIA Ealdgyth (Aldgyth) (Edith) (ABT 1041 - AFT 1086)

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