Event: Burial, Church/monastery/minster foundation/dedication/restoration
Ælfgifu 3
.founding nunnery
Asserted in:
WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum
ii.86.1-2
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Scholarly Info
Description
Ælfgifu 3
, wife of the
Edmund 14
who was great-grandson of
Alfred 8
, founded a nunnery [in Shaftsbury], and here her bodily remains lay after her death. She was a woman ever devoted to good works, pious and sweet-natured.
Primary Source Info
Persons associated with this Event:
Agent
:
Ælfgifu 3
(
Queen and wife of King
Edmund 14
; mother of King
Edgar 11
, d. 944
)
Locations associated with this Event:
: (
Nunnery
), now
Shaftesbury, Dorset