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Æthelflæd
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (d. 12 June 918), ruled Mercia from 911 to her death in 918. She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his queen, Ealhswith. Æthelflæd was born at the height of the Viking invasions of England. Her father married her to Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. After his death in 911, she ruled; the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' referred to her as the ''Myrcna hlæfdige'', "Lady of the Mercians".
==Early life==
Æthelflæd was, according to Asser, the first-born child of Alfred the Great and his Mercian queen Ealhswith,〔Cook, ''Asser's Life of Alfred'', pp. 37–38.〕 who was a descendant of king Coenwulf of Mercia through her own mother Eadburh. Æthelflæd's date of birth is not known but it was probably sometime between the marriage of her parents in 868 and birth of her brother Edward the Elder, whose own date of birth is not known but presumably took place before 878.
Alfred was the fifth son of king Ethelwulf and was never expected to become king. However, by 865 three of his brothers had died and Ethelred, the only other one still alive, was King of Wessex. Soon afterwards in the same year a great Viking army arrived and wreaked havoc in much of England. It would be the start of a long period of war between the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons which lasted many battles until after the Battle of Edington in 878 in which Alfred was king and commander.
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