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According to this, Alfred the Great married a girl whose parents were half-sibs

https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Mercia-Family-Tree-181

WikiTree profile: Ealhswith of Wessex
in Genealogy Help by Living Horace G2G6 Pilot (642k points)
Just had a quick look and not at all happy with "Queen of England" - an England might have been the family ambition but it certainly didn't exist in Alfred & Ealhswith's time. Queen of "Wessex" please, it was "the last kingdom" to hold out against the Danes/Norse invaders.
by Valerie Willis G2G6 Pilot (117k points)

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It seems like all of Ealhswith's ancestry is shaky at best. Her mother Eadburh has no attested parentage. All we really know is that Asser says she was of royal Mercian descent without naming any parents ("de regali genere Merciorum regis").

by Jessica Key G2G6 Pilot (320k points)

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