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Æthelgifu
Anglo-Saxon abbess · Lived c. 870 to 896
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.
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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'.
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Lived c. 870 to 896