Category:Eadgifu of Kent

**Eadgifu of Kent**
	third wife of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex
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Date of birth	unknown value (before 904)
Date of death	unknown value (after 966)
Noble title	queen consort;
Family	House of Wessex;
Father	Sigehelm;
Child	Edmund I; Edred of England; Eadburh of Winchester; Eadgifu;
Spouse	Edward the Elder (920–);
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	Q3433685; Library of Congress authority ID: n2024008407; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 52307
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English: Eadgifu was the daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent (died 903). She became the mother of two sons, Edmund I of England, later King Edmund I, and Eadred of England, later King Eadred, and a daughter, Saint Eadburh of Winchester. Eadgifu survived Edward by many years, dying in the reign of her grandson Edgar. As queen dowager, her position seem to have been higher than that of her daughter-in-law; In a Kentish charter datable between 942 and 944, her daughter-in-law Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury subscribes herself as the king's concubine (concubina regis), with a place assigned to her between the bishops and ealdormen. By comparison, Eadgifu subscribes higher up in the witness list as mater regis, after her sons Edmund and Eadred but before the archbishops and bishops.