Ælfgifu
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Ælfgifu is an Old English feminine personal name. It may refer to:
- Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, wife of King Edmund I of England
- Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, king of England
- Ælfgifu of YorkÆlfgifu of YorkÆlfgifu of York was the first wife of King Æthelred , by whom she bore many offspring, including Edmund Ironside. It is most probable that she was a daughter of Thored, earl of southern Northumbria....
, first wife of Æthelred the Unready - Emma of NormandyEmma of NormandyEmma , was a daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, by his second wife Gunnora. She was Queen consort of England twice, by successive marriages: first as second wife to Æthelred the Unready of England ; and then second wife to Cnut the Great of Denmark...
, second wife of Æthelred the Unready and second wife of Cnut the Great, called Ælfgifu in Old English sources - Ælfgifu of Northampton, first wife of King Cnut the Great. Her name became Álfífa in Old Norse.
- Ælfgifu, wife of Ælfgar, Earl of MerciaÆlfgar, Earl of MerciaÆlfgar was son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia,by his well-known wife Godgifu . He succeeded to his father's title and responsibilities on the latter's death in 1057....
- Ælfgifu, daughter of Godwin, Earl of WessexGodwin, Earl of WessexGodwin of Wessex , was one of the most powerful lords in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors. Cnut made him the first Earl of Wessex...
, and sister of King Harold II of England - Ælfgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready and wife of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria
- Ælfgyva, a woman of unknown identity in the Bayeux TapestryBayeux TapestryThe Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth—not an actual tapestry—nearly long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings...
- Elgiva (Diptera), a marsh fly genus