
Ælfgifu
Ælfgifu(alsoÆlfgyfu;Elfgifa, Elfgiva, Elgiva) is an Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name, fromælf“elf” andgifu“gift”.
When Emma of Normandy, the later mother of Edward the Confessor, became queen of England in 1002, she was given the native Anglo-Saxon name ofÆlfgifuto 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:
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Ælfgifu of Exeter, Anglo-Saxon saint
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Ælfgifu of Northampton, first wife of King Cnut the Great. Her name became Álfífa in Old Norse.
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Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, wife of King Edmund I of England
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Ælfgifu of York, first wife of Æthelred the Unready
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Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, king of England asElgiva, the female protagonist ofEdwy and Elgiva, a 1790 verse tragedy by Frances Burney
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Emma of Normandy adopted the name Ælfgifu upon her marriage to Æthelred the Unready
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Ælfgifu, wife of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia
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Ælfgifu, daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and sister of King Harold II of England
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Ælfgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready and wife of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria
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Ælfgyva, a woman of unknown identity in the Bayeux Tapestry
Elgivamay also refer to:
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Elgiva, a marsh fly genus