Eadgifu of Wessex (b. 902/5 - bur. Saint-Médard de Soissons).[6][1]
Eadgifu is a half-sister of Aethelstan of Wessex.[7][8][9] Between 917 and 919, (Foot, 2011, p. 46)[10] She was married off to Charles le Simple, king of west Francia and Lotharingia. This act made her the first of at least four of Aethelstan's sisters who married foreigners, (Maclean, 2008).[11]
Charles' unsuccessful reign forced Eadgifu back to England (Cawley, 2006), but she and her only child, Louis the Outremer (b. 10 Sep 920 or 21 - d. 10 Sep 954 Reims),[12][13] returned to France in 936, (MacLean, 2017, p. 35). She was the Abbess of Notre Dame de Laon from that time until 951, when Heribert III "le Viex" de Vermandois, Comte le Viex abducted and married her. They had no children, (Cawley, 2006).
According to Cawley (2006), Eadgifu fled to England in 923.[14] But apparently, this is not based on hard proof.
What is certain is that Charles was captured in 923, (Hartley, 2013, p. 147).[2]
More specifically, it was her son Louis who immediately left Francia to be raised at the court of Athelstan, (Foot, 2011, p. 46; MacLean, 2017, p. 35).
A year after his capture, Charles was transferred and permanently incarcerated at Peronne castle in Somme, (Cawley, 2006).[15][3] Some scholars have entertained the idea that Eadgifu may have remained in Francia until Charles died in 929, (Foot, 2011, p. 46-47).[4]
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Categories: Medieval Project, England, pre-1066 profiles in need of work
My suggestion: Merge out the Ogive-1 (wrong LNAB) duplicate, then disconnect or merge out the weird Transmarinus line. Somebody needs to fix that line, so we do not promote bad GEDCOMS that come back to haunt the web.
PS: The Ogive/Ogivas are most likely duplicates. Someone should merge Ogive-1 so we can sort of prune the tree.
See: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20AngloSaxon%20&%20Danish%20Kings.htm#Edwarddied924B