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Ealdorman Sigehelm of Kent

Male Est 850 - 902  (~ 52 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Ealdorman Sigehelm of Kent was born est 850; died in 902.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Eadgifu of Kent  Descendancy chart to this point was born est 875; died after 966.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Eadgifu of Kent Descendancy chart to this point (1.Sigehelm1) was born est 875; died after 966.

    Notes:

    Eadgifu was the daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent, who died at the Battle of the Holme in 902.[1] She married Edward in about 919 and became the mother of two sons, Edmund I of England, later King Edmund I, and Eadred of England, later King Eadred, and two daughters, Saint Eadburh of Winchester and Eadgifu.[2] She survived Edward by many years, dying in the reign of her grandson Edgar.

    According to a narrative written in the early 960s, her father had given Cooling in Kent to a man called Goda as security for a loan. She claimed that her father had repaid the loan and left the land to her, but Goda denied receiving payment and refused to surrender the land. She got possession of Cooling six years after her father's death, when her friends persuaded King Edward to threaten to dispossess Goda of his property unless he gave up the estate. Edward later declared Goda's lands forfeit and gave the charters to Eadgifu, but she returned most of the estates to Goda, although retained the charters. Some time after this her marriage to Edward took place. After his death King Æthelstan required Eadgifu to return the charters to Goda, perhaps because the king was on bad terms with his stepmother.[3]

    She disappeared from court during the reign of her step-son, King Æthelstan, but she was prominent and influential during the reign of her two sons.[2] As queen dowager, her position seem to have been higher than that of her daughter-in-law; In a Kentish charter datable between 942 and 944, her daughter-in-law Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury subscribes herself as the king's concubine (concubina regis), with a place assigned to her between the bishops and ealdormen. By comparison, Eadgifu subscribes higher up in the witness list as mater regis, after her sons Edmund and Eadred but before the archbishops and bishops.[4]

    Following the death of her younger son Eadred in 955, she was deprived of her lands by her eldest grandson, King Eadwig, perhaps because she took the side of his younger brother, Edgar, in the struggle between them. When Edgar succeeded on Eadwig's death in 959 she recovered some lands and received generous gifts from her grandson, but she never returned to her prominent position at court. She is last recorded as a witness to a charter in 966.[2]

    She was known as a supporter of saintly churchmen and a benefactor of churches.

    Family/Spouse: King Edward of the Anglo-Saxons. Edward (son of King Alfred of Wessex and Ealhswith of Mercia) was born in ca 874; died on 17 Jul 924 in Farndon, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. King Edmond of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 920; died in 946.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  King Edmond of England Descendancy chart to this point (2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born in 920; died in 946.

    Family/Spouse: Saint Alfgifu of England. Alfgifu was born est 920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. King Edgar of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 943; died in 975.


Generation: 4

  1. 4.  King Edgar of England Descendancy chart to this point (3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born in 943; died in 975.

    Family/Spouse: Elfrida of England. Elfrida (daughter of Earl Ordgar of England) was born in 945; died in 1000. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. King Aethelred II of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born est 968; died in 1016.


Generation: 5

  1. 5.  King Aethelred II of England Descendancy chart to this point (4.Edgar4, 3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born est 968; died in 1016.

    Family/Spouse: Alfflaid of England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Countess Alfgifu of Northumbria  Descendancy chart to this point was born est 980.
    2. 7. King Edmund II of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 989; died on 30 Nov 1016.


Generation: 6

  1. 6.  Countess Alfgifu of Northumbria Descendancy chart to this point (5.Aethelred5, 4.Edgar4, 3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born est 980.

    Family/Spouse: Earl Uchtred of Northumbria. Uchtred (son of Earl Waltheof of Northumbria) was born est 980; died in 1016. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Princess Ealdgyth of Northumbria  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1006.

  2. 7.  King Edmund II of England Descendancy chart to this point (5.Aethelred5, 4.Edgar4, 3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born in 989; died on 30 Nov 1016.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Prince Edward of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1016; died in 1057.


Generation: 7

  1. 8.  Princess Ealdgyth of Northumbria Descendancy chart to this point (6.Alfgifu6, 5.Aethelred5, 4.Edgar4, 3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born in 1006.

    Ealdgyth married King Maldred of Cumbria in 1024. Maldred (son of Governor Crinan of the Scots and Princess Bethoc of the Scots) was born in 1005 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland; died in 1045. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. Earl Gospatric I of Dunbar  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1040; died in 1074.
    2. 11. Maldred of the Winlaton Manor  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1045.

  2. 9.  Prince Edward of England Descendancy chart to this point (7.Edmund6, 5.Aethelred5, 4.Edgar4, 3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born in 1016; died in 1057.

    Family/Spouse: Agatha of Hungary. Agatha was born est 1020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Saint Margaret of Scotland  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1045; died on 16 Nov 1093.


Generation: 8

  1. 10.  Earl Gospatric I of Dunbar Descendancy chart to this point (8.Ealdgyth7, 6.Alfgifu6, 5.Aethelred5, 4.Edgar4, 3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born about 1040; died in 1074.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. Earl Gospatric II of Dunbar  Descendancy chart to this point was born est 1070; died on 23 Aug 1138.
    2. 14. Gunnilda of Dunbar  Descendancy chart to this point was born est 1070.

  2. 11.  Maldred of the Winlaton Manor Descendancy chart to this point (8.Ealdgyth7, 6.Alfgifu6, 5.Aethelred5, 4.Edgar4, 3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born about 1045.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 15. Lord Uchtred Fitz Maldred of Raby  Descendancy chart to this point was born est 1080; died in 1128.

  3. 12.  Saint Margaret of Scotland Descendancy chart to this point (9.Edward7, 7.Edmund6, 5.Aethelred5, 4.Edgar4, 3.Edmond3, 2.Eadgifu2, 1.Sigehelm1) was born in 1045; died on 16 Nov 1093.

    Family/Spouse: King Malcolm III of the Scots. Malcolm (son of King Duncan I of the Scots and Sibylla of Northumbria) was born in 1031; died on 13 Nov 1093. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 16. King David I of the Scots  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1080; died on 24 May 1154.
    2. 17. Princess Matilda of Scotland  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1080.


 

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