Edmund I
Edmund I (pronounced ; 92126 May 946) was King of the English from 939 until his death.
His epithets include "the Elderthe Deed-doerthe
Just", and "the Magnificent".
Edmund was the son of Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu of Kent, and a grandson of Alfred the Great.
His father died when he was young, and was succeeded by his oldest son Æthelstan.
Edmund came to the throne upon the death of his half-brother in 939, apparently with little opposition.
His reign was marked by almost constant warfare, including conquests or reconquests of the Midlands, Northumbria, and Strathclyde (the last of which was ceded to Malcolm I of Scotland).
Edmund was assassinated after six-and-a-half years as king, while attending Mass in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire.
He was initially succeeded by his brother Eadred, but his two sonsEadwig and Edgar the Peacefulboth later came to the throne.
Priscilla Pointer
Priscilla Marie Pointer( born May 18, 1924) is an American stage, film and television character actress.
She began her career in the theater, including productions on Broadway.
Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood to act in films and on television.
She is the mother of Amy Irving, therefore making her the former mother- in- law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto and the mother- in- law of documentary filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, Jr.
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
Saint Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, also known as Saint Elgiva (died 944) was the first wife of
Edmund I (r. 939–946), by whom she bore two future kings, Eadwig (r. 955–959) and Edgar (r. 959–975).
Like her mother Wynflaed, she had a close and special if unknown connection with the royal nunnery of Shaftesbury (Dorset), founded by King Alfred, where she was buried and soon revered as a saint.
According to a pre-Conquest tradition from Winchester, her feast day is 18 May.
Ælfgifu of Exeter
Ælfgifu of Exeter was an Anglo- Saxon saint, of unknown date or origin, whose relics were held by Exeter Cathedral.
She is mentioned in the Old English Exeter relic- list as" the holy servant of Christ ... who would daily perform her confession before she went into church".
It is possible that she is the 10th- century royal abbess, Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury wife of Edmund I( as one 12th- century writer believed), but it is" more likely" according to historian John Blair that she was not.
Maria Thins
Maria Thins( c. 1593 – 27 December 1680) was the mother- in- law of Johannes Vermeer and a member of the Gouda Thins family.
Eldon Howard
Eldon Howard was a British screenwriter.
She was the mother- in- law of Edward J. Danziger and wrote a number of the screenplays for films by his company Danziger Productions.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt( 22 May 1938 – c. 5 November 2004), styled Lord Ashley between 1947 and 1961, and Earl of Shaftesbury from 1961 until his death, was a British peer from Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, England.
He was the son of Major Anthony Ashley- Cooper, Lord Ashley, and Françoise Soulier.
Ashley- Cooper was the grandson of Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury.
Ashley- Cooper's father was the heir apparent to the earldom and its subsidiary titles, but he predeceased his father.
His death made his son next in the line of succession.
When his grandfather died in 1961, Ashley- Cooper became the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles and Baron Cooper of Pawlett.
The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury was a wealthy landowner of over in East Dorset, and received honours and awards for his philanthropic and conservationist work, which included planting over a million trees in South West England.
He served as president of the Shaftesbury Society, pursuing the same goals of his second great grandfather, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, who had founded the organization as Ragged Schools in 1840.
He also served as the vice president of Sir David Attenborough's British Butterfly Conservation Society.
In November 2004, the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury went missing while in France, prompting an international police investigation.
His remains were found at the bottom of a remote ravine in the foothills of the French Alps five months after his death.
Investigations revealed that he was murdered by his brother- in- law during an argument regarding a divorce from his wife, Jamila M' Barek, both of whom were convicted of his murder.
Thomas Haselmere
Thomas Haselmere( fl. 1414) of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament.
He was a Member( MP) of the Parliament of England for Shaftesbury in April 1414.
He was Mayor of Shaftesbury 1414 – 15.
He was a descendant of John Haselmere, mayor of Shaftesbury 1331- 2 and 1351- 2.
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Lois Robinson( née Shields; born July 29, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, and Craig Robinson, a basketball executive, and the mother- in- law of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury
Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury,( born 3 June 1979) also known as Nick Ashley- Cooper, is an English peer, landowner and philanthropist.
He succeeded his brother as Earl of Shaftesbury in 2005.
The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury is the godson of Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, and Simon Elliot, brother- in- law of Charles, Prince of Wales.
Shaftesbury's father, Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, had been murdered in November 2004 by the brother of his third wife, Jamila M'Barek.
Six months later, on 15 May 2005, the 12th earl's brother, Anthony, the 11th Earl, died of a heart attack and the peerage devolved upon Nicholas.
Following his brother's death, Shaftesbury relocated to his family home from New York City and assumed the responsibilities of the earldom.
He also holds the subsidiary titles Baron Ashley and Baron Cooper.
On 11 September 2010, Lord Shaftesbury married Dinah Streifeneder.
Professionally, the Countess of Shaftesbury is a veterinary surgeon.
Since inheriting the titles and estate, they have pursued the restoration of St Giles House.

Question: Who is Ælfgifu Of Shaftesbury's mother-in-law?
Answer: Eadgifu of Kent