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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Dunstan
		Eadwig, the elder son of Eadmund, who then came to the throne, was a dissolute and headstrong youth, wholly devoted to the reactionary party and entirely under the influence of two unprincipled women.
		These were Aethelgifu, a lady of high rank, who was perhaps the king's foster-mother, and her daughter Aelfgifu, whom she desired to marry to Eadwig.
		On the day of his coronation, in 956, the king abruptly quit the royal feast, in order to enjoy the company of these two women.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05199a.htm (3026 words)

	Chesstories - King Canute and the Murder of a Danish Earl
		Two years later, Canute started to lay claim to Norway, eventually capturing it and putting his son Svein and his mistress Aelfgifu to govern it.
		Scotland also submitted to Canute and, by the late 1020s, Canute was able to claim to be 'king of all England, and of Denmark, of the Norwegians, and part of the Swedes'.
		Aelfgifu's son, Harald, became king of England but died in 1040.
	www.goddesschess.com /chesstories/canute.html (1894 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia: Christian Names
		In the eighth century the two Englishmen Winfrith and Willibald going on different occasions to Rome received from the reigning pontiff, along with a new commission to preach, the names respectively of Boniface and Clement.
		So again Emma of Normandy when she married King Ethelred in 1002 took the name AElfgifu; while, of course, the reception of a new name upon entering a religious order is almost universal even in our day.
		It is not strange, then, that at confirmation, in which the interposition of a godfather emphasizes the resemblance with baptism, it should have become customary to take a new name, though usually no great use is made of it.
	www.catholicforum.com /saints/ce001006.htm (1739 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Aethelred later, in 1002, strengthened this alliance by marrying Emma, Richard's daughter.
		Emma, rather confusingly, was known to the English as Aelfgifu, which had been the name of Aethelred's first wife.
		Despite his diplomatic coup in 991, things started getting worse for Aethelred soon after.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/muhlberger/aethelred.html (1693 words)

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