Æthelswith
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thumb|upright=1|Æthelswith in a thirteenth-century cartulary for [[Abingdon Abbey ]] Æthelswith (–888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. The couple had no known children.
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- human
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Burgred of Mercia
- Father
- Æthelwulf
- Mother
- Osburh
- Sibling
- Alfred the Great
- Occupation
- aristocrat
- Position held
- monarch
- Family
- House of Wessex
- Noble title
- queen
- Image
- Æthelswith, Queen of Mercia, in British Library Cotton MS Claudius B VI.png
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- date of death
- 0888-00-00
- place of burial
- Pavia
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thumb|upright=1|Æthelswith in a thirteenth-century cartulary for [[Abingdon Abbey ]] Æthelswith (–888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. The couple had no known children.
Her marriage probably signaled the subordination of Burgred to his father-in-law and the Saxon kingdom at a time when both Wessex and Mercia were suffering Danish (Viking) raids. Burgred also had ongoing problems with the Kingdom of Powys on his western border and in 853 Æthelwulf subjugated the Welsh state on Burgred's behalf.
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