Born about in Wessex, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Eadweard (Wessex) of England
and Æflaeda (Wiltshire) of Wiltshire
Sister of
Æthelstan (Wessex) of England [half], Edith Wessex [half], Ælfweard (Wessex) of Wessex, Eadgifu (Wessex) de France, Ædwin (Wessex) of Wessex, Eadflæd (Wessex) of Wessex, Ædgitha (Wessex) Sachsen, Æthelhild (Wessex) of Wessex, Ælfgifu (Wessex) of Wessex, Edburga (Wessex) of Wessex [half], Edmund (Wessex) of England [half], Eadgifu (Wessex) of Wessex [half] and Eadred (Wessex) of England [half]
Wife of
Hugues (Robertian) de Paris
— married
0926 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 29
in France
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Eadhild (Wessex) Robertian is a member of the House of Wessex.
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Biography
Eadhild was the daughter of King Edward the Elder and Æflaeda.[1][2][3][4]
She married Hugues le Grand, duke of the Franks,[2] in 926.[3][4][5] Hugues took the initiative in seeking the marriage alliance, and sent a mission to Eadhild's half-brother Æthelstan with lavish gifts, including a supposed sword of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great with a supposed nail from Jesus's cross in the hilt.[6]
Research Notes
Death Date
Alison Weir postulates a death date of 26 January 947, with no source, while acknowledging that some sources give a date of a decade or so earlier, which she regards as improbable. She gives no further explanation.[1] Alison Weir would appear to be mistaken: Hugues le Grand remarried in 937[4] or 938.[7]
Possible Child
Charles Cawley mentions the possibility that Eadhild, rather than the third wife (Hedwige) of Hugues le Grand, may have been the mother of Beatrice, but gives no source.[8] The Henry Project gives Beatrice's mother as Hedwige.[9]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alison Weir. Britain's Royal Families, new edition, Pimlico, 2002, reissued by Vintage Books, 2008, pp. 13-14
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for Edward the Elder, print and online 2004, revised online 2011, available online via some libraries and on subscription
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Charles Cawley. Eadhild (-937), entry in "Medieval Lands" database, accessed 26 January 2021
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 The Henry Project, entry for Eadweard (Edward) "the Elder", accessed 26 January 2021
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Simon Maclean. Making a difference in tenth-century politics: King Athelstan's sisters and Frankish queenship, 2008, University of St Andrew's website, PDF, accessed 26 January 2021
- ↑ Frank Stenton. Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 345
- ↑ Flodoard of Reims. Chronique de Flodoard, P Regnier, Reims, 1855, p.69, Google Books
- ↑ Charles Cawley, "Medieval Lands", Hugues le Grand", child 1, Beatrix
- ↑ The Henry Project, entry for Hugues "le Grand", accessed 26 January 2021
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