Born about in Wessex, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Eadweard (Wessex) of England
and Æflaeda (Wiltshire) of Wiltshire
Sister of
Æthelstan (Wessex) of England [half], Edith Wessex [half], Ælfweard (Wessex) of Wessex, Eadgifu (Wessex) de France, Ædwin (Wessex) of Wessex, Eadflæd (Wessex) of Wessex, Eadhild (Wessex) Robertian, Æthelhild (Wessex) of Wessex, Ælfgifu (Wessex) of Wessex, Edburga (Wessex) of Wessex [half], Edmund (Wessex) of England [half], Eadgifu (Wessex) of Wessex [half] and Eadred (Wessex) of England [half]
Wife of
Otto (Ottonian) Liudolfinger
— married
about 0930 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Liudolf (Sachsen) Schwaben and Liutgard (Sachsen) de Lorraine
Died
at about age 36
[location unknown]
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Biography
Ædgitha (or Eadgyth, Edith, Editha etc) was a daughter of King Edward the Elder and Ælflaeda.[1][2][3] Her birth date is not known but may have been in the period 908-912.[1]
Ædgitha married Otto, Duke of Saxony, who subsequently became King of Germany, and then, after her death, Holy Roman Emperor.[1][2] They had two children:
Ædgitha is said to have encouraged her husband to found the city of Magdeburg.[1] They founded the monastery of St Maurice at Magdeburg.[5] She introduced the cult of St Oswald of Northumbria to Germany.[5]
Ædgitha died on 26 January 946[2][6] and was buried at the Monastery of St Maurice, Magdeburg,[5] later rebuilt as Magdeburg Cathedral.[1][7]
Research Notes
Marriage Date
Cawley in "Medlands" gives the date of her marriage as September 929.[1] The Worcester manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle appears to have the year as 925.[8] Ædgitha's Wikipedia entry gives the year as 930.[5] Alison Weir gives a date range of 925-930.[9] Frank Stenton states that the marriage was linked to a 928 treaty between Henry the Fowler and Æthelstan.[10] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives the marriage date as late 929 or early 930.[2] The Henry Project has the marriage date as 930 based on a Chronicon by Regino.[6]
Remains found at Magdeburg Cathedral in 2008
In 2008 remains in a tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral were found and examined, and were of someone of English extraction of the right approximate age to be Ædgitha. They have been identified as hers.[2][11][12]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Charles Cawley. Eadgyth, entry in "Medieval Lands" database, accessed 20 January 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Eadgyth (c. 911-946)', online 2011, available online via some libraries
- ↑ Donald Henson. A Guide to Late Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon Books, 2002, p. 69
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Charles Cawley, 'Medlands', Otto son of HEINRICH I, accessed 20 January 2021
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Wikipedia: Eadgyth
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Henry Project, entry for Eadweard (Edward) "the Elder", accessed 21 January 2021
- ↑ Wikipedia: Magdeburg Cathedral
- ↑ Michael Swanton (translator and editor). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Phoenix Press, 2000, p. 105
- ↑ Alison Weir. Britain's Royal Families, new Pimlico edition, Vintage Books, 2008, p. 14
- ↑ Frank Stenton. Anglo-Saxon England, third edition, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 346
- ↑ Susan Abernethy. 'Eadgyth, Queen Consort of Germany and Duchess of Saxony', Medievalists.net website, accessed 20 January 2021
- ↑ Patricia Grimshaw. 'The Dark Age Anglo-Saxon Princess Rediscovered Over 1000 Years Later', 20 Feb 2019 post on Vintage News website, accessed 20 January 2021
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Eadgyth (c. 911-946)', online 2011, available online via some libraries
- Thietmar of Merseburg
- Widukind of Corvey
- Wikipedia: Eadgyth
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There also seem to be a couple of different dates for when she died but most sources (Wikipedia, Stewart Baldwin, Cawley) are using 26 Jan 946 and I think I would use that date.