Roy Family Genealogy
Genealogy of the Roy family, including Boudreau, Burnett, Myers, Ward, Whelpley, and Woodman
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Ælfgifu

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Ælfgifu (daughter of Eadric, Ealdoman of Wessex and Æthelgifu).

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • History: birth to death

    Notes:

    History:
    Ælfgifu left a will between 966 and 975.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Eadric, Ealdoman of Wessex (son of Æthelfrith, Ealdoman of Wessex and Mercia); died about 949.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • History: birth to death

    Notes:

    History:
    He held Ogburn and Wrington.

    Eadric married Æthelgifu. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Æthelgifu
    Children:
    1. 1. Ælfgifu
    2. Ælfwaru
    3. Ælfweard
    4. Æthelwerd I "the Historian", Theign of Surrey


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Æthelfrith, Ealdoman of Wessex and Mercia (son of Æthelhelm, Ealdorman of Wiltshire and Æthelgyth of Mercia).

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • History: He held Risborough, Farnborough, and Wrington.

    Children:
    1. Æthelwold, Ealdorman of Wiltshire died about 947.
    2. 2. Eadric, Ealdoman of Wessex died about 949.
    3. Æthelstan "Half-King", Ealdorman of East Anglia
    4. Ealdorman Ælfstan died before 946 in England.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Æthelhelm, Ealdorman of Wiltshire was born about 859 in England (son of Æthelred I, King of England and Wulfthryth); died in 897 in Wiltshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • History: He held Compton and Crondool, probably receiving them from King Alfred. He also held Aldingbourn. In 887, he took the alms of the king and the West Saxons to Rome. He was one of the three military leaders who defeated the Danes at Buttington in 894.

    Æthelhelm married Æthelgyth of Mercia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Æthelgyth of Mercia (daughter of Æthelwulf, Ealdoman of Mercia).

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • History: She was the heiress of Risborough, which later was granted to Æthelfryth by King Edward in 903, as its charter was destroyed by fire.

    Children:
    1. 4. Æthelfrith, Ealdoman of Wessex and Mercia
    2. Eadric, Thegn
    3. Ælfflæd was born about 878 in Kingdom of Wessex, England; died in 920 in England; was buried in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England.