Queen and mother of Kings Edwy of the Saxons and Edgar, King of England, and wife of Edmund the First. She gave up public life and became a Benedictine nun at Shaftesbury.
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury (died c. 944), also known as Elgiva and canonised as Saint Ælfgifu, was Queen of the English from 939 until her death c. 944 as the first wife of King Edmund I (r. 939–946). Ælfgifu and Edmund were the parents of two future English kings, Eadwig (r. 955–959) and Edgar the Peaceful (r. 959–975). Like her mother Wynflaed, Ælfgifu had a close and special if unknown connection with the royal nunnery of Shaftesbury (Dorset), founded by King Alfred,[2] where she was buried and soon revered as a saint. According to a pre-Conquest tradition from Winchester, her feast day is 18 May.
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