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AEthelflaed

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{ath'-uhl-flad} AEthelflaed, d. 918, daughter of King Alfred of Wessex, ruled the semiautonomous Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, first with AEthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, whom she married c.880, and then on her own during the illness that preceded his death (911) and thereafter until her own death. Known as the Lady of the Mercians, she built fortresses and helped recover areas held by the Danes--victories that facilitated the ascendancy of her brother EDWARD THE ELDER. After AEthelflaed's death, Edward incorporated English Mercia into Wessex.

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