Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
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Who was Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury?
Saint Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury was the first wife of Edmund I, by whom she bore two future kings, Eadwig and Edgar. Like her mother Wynflæd, she had a close and special if unknown connection with the royal nunnery of Shaftesbury, founded by King Alfred, where she was buried and soon revered as a saint. According to a pre-Conquest tradition from Winchester, her feast day is 18 May.
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