house death_date succession mother burial_place consort spouse issue article_title reign
house of wessex -lrb- by marriage -rrb- 944 queen consort of england wynflaed shaftesbury abbey yes edmund i , king of england eadwig england , king of england edgar , king of Ælfgifu of shaftesbury
 939 - 944
Ælfgifu of shaftesbury

saint Ælfgifu of shaftesbury , also known as saint elgiva -lrb- died 944 -rrb- was the first wife of edmund i -lrb- r. 939 -- 946 -rrb- , by whom she bore two future kings , eadwig -lrb- r. 955 -- 959 -rrb- and edgar -lrb- r. 959 -- 975 -rrb- .
like her mother wynflaed , she had a close and special if unknown connection with the royal nunnery of shaftesbury -lrb- dorset -rrb- , 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 .
