{"id":43943,"count":1,"description":"\u00c6lfthryth (c. 945 to c. 1000, also Alfrida, Elfrida or Elfthryth) was the second or third wife of King Edgar of England. \u00c6lfthryth was the first king's wife known to have been crowned and anointed as Queen of the Kingdom of England. Mother of King \u00c6thelred the Unready, she was a powerful political figure. She was linked to the murder of her stepson King Edward the Martyr and appeared as a stereotypical bad queen and evil stepmother in many medieval histories.\n\u00c6lfthryth was the daughter of Ealdorman Ordgar. Her mother was a member of the royal family of Wessex. The family's power lay in the west of Wessex. Ordgar was buried in Exeter and his son Ordwulf founded, or refounded, Tavistock Abbey.\n\u00c6lfthryth was first married to \u00c6thelwald, son of \u00c6thelstan Half-King as recorded by Byrhtferth of Ramsey in his Life of Saint Oswald of Worcester. Later accounts, such as that preserved by William of Malmesbury, add vivid detail of unknown reliability.\nAccording to William, the beauty of Ordgar's...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/elfrida\/","name":"Elfrida","slug":"elfrida","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/43943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=43943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}