Æthelflæd
Mercian monarch · Historical Figures · Lived 870 to 918 · aged 48
Æthelflæd ruled as Lady of the Mercians in the English Midlands from 911 until her death in 918. She was the eldest child of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.
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![Charter S 221, dated 901, of Æthelred and Ætheflæd, donating land and a golden chalice to Much Wenlock church.[29]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Charter_S_221%2C_dated_901%2C_of_%C3%86thelred_and_%C3%86thefl%C3%A6d%2C_rulers_of_the_Mercians.jpg/1280px-Charter_S_221%2C_dated_901%2C_of_%C3%86thelred_and_%C3%86thefl%C3%A6d%2C_rulers_of_the_Mercians.jpg)
Charter S 221, dated 901, of Æthelred and Ætheflæd, donating land and a golden chalice to Much Wenlock church.[29]![Statue in Tamworth of Æthelflæd with her nephew Æthelstan, erected in 1913 to commemorate the millennium of her fortification of the town.[50]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Aethelfleda_Monument%2C_Tamworth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1740828.jpg/330px-Aethelfleda_Monument%2C_Tamworth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1740828.jpg)
Statue in Tamworth of Æthelflæd with her nephew Æthelstan, erected in 1913 to commemorate the millennium of her fortification of the town.[50]
Twelfth and thirteenth century arches of St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester, where Æthelflæd and Æthelred were buried.
Æthelflæd in the thirteenth-century Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings, British Library Royal MS 14 B V
The new Æthelflaed statue outside Tamworth Railway Station, erected to commemorate 1,100 years since she died in Tamworth. Her spear points visitors towards the town centre and Tamworth Castle.About this person
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Lived 870 to 918 · aged 48
