# Æthelgifu

> Æthelgifu was a daughter of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. She was the third surviving child of the marriage between Alfred and Ealhswith in 868. 
Alfred's biographer, Asser, wrote that "Æthelgifu, devoted to God through her holy virginity, subject and consecrated to the rules of monastic life, entered the service of God'.

*Anglo-Saxon abbess*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/thelgifu

## Identity
- **Born:** 870
- **Died:** 896
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 46.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 4.2 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 25.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 25.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Æthelgifu, Abbess of Shaftesbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelgifu%2C_Abbess_of_Shaftesbury)
- [Æthelgifu](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelgifu)
- [Aethelgifu](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethelgifu)
- [Этельгифу](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%83)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20056428)

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