Edward the Elder child Eadgifu
Marriages and children
Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages.Edward first married Ecgwynn around 893. Their children were:Ælfweard, died August 924, a month after his father; possibly King of Wessex for that month
Edwin, drowned at sea 933
Æthelhild, lay sister at Wilton Abbey
Eadgifu (died in or after 951), married Charles the Simple, King of the West Franks, c. 918
Eadflæd, nun at Wilton Abbey
Eadhild, married Hugh the Great, Duke of the Franks in 926
Eadgyth (died 946), in 929/30 married Otto I, future King of the East Franks, and (after Eadgyth's death) Holy Roman Emperor
Ælfgifu or Edgiva, married "a prince near the Alps", perhaps Louis, brother of King Rudolph II of BurgundyEdward married for a third time, around 919, Eadgifu, the daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent. Their children were:
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