Ælfgifu (alsoÆlfgyfu;Elfgifa, Elfgiva, Elgiva) is anAnglo-Saxon feminine personal name, fromælf "elf" andgifu "gift". WhenEmma of Normandy, the later mother ofEdward the Confessor, became queen of England in 1002, she was given the native Anglo-Saxon name ofÆlfgifu to be used in formal and official contexts.[1]
Latinized forms of the name include forms such asAelueua, Alueua, Alueue, Elgiva, Elueua, Aluiua, Aueue (etc.).
People called Ælfgifu:
- Ælfgifu of Exeter, Anglo-Saxon saint
- Ælfgifu of Northampton, first wife of King Cnut the Great. Her name became Álfífa in Old Norse.
- Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, wife of King Edmund I of England
- Ælfgifu of York, first wife ofÆthelred the Unready
- Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, king of England
- asElgiva, the female protagonist ofEdwy and Elgiva, a 1790 verse tragedy byFrances Burney
- Emma of Normandy adopted the name Ælfgifu upon her marriage to Æthelred the Unready
- Ælfgifu, wife ofÆlfgar, Earl of Mercia
- Ælfgifu, daughter ofGodwin, Earl of Wessex, and sister of King Harold II of England
- Ælfgifu, daughter ofÆthelred the Unready and wife ofUhtred, Earl of Northumbria
- Ælfgyva, a woman of unknown identity in theBayeux Tapestry
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