Ældgyth Princess of Northumberland
- Born: Abt 1034, Mercia, England
- Marriage (1): Gruffydd ap Llywelyn King of all Wales 1013,1092
- Marriage (2): Harold of Wessex King of England 160
- Died: After 1086
Noted events in her life were:
• Background Information. 160 Gruffdd ap Llwelyn, prince of North Wales, king of Gwynedd & Powys, 1039, and of Dehubarth, 1055, slain 5 Aug 1063, married as her first husband Edith or Ældgyth, daughter of Elgar (Ælfgar), Earl of Mercia 1057 son of Leofric, son of Leofwin (d. before 1032), Earl of Mercia.
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 176:2
Harold II married as her second husband, Edith (Ældgyth), widow of Gruffydd I ap Llywelyn, Prince of North Wales.
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 1b:24
Ældgyth, seen in "Doomsday" 1086, death date unknow was the daughter Ælfgar Earl of East Anglia and his wife Ælfgifu, married, 1stly Gruffydd I ap Llywelyn who was killed by her second husband Harold II, King of England.
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 176A:4
Ældgyth married Gruffydd ap Llywelyn King of all Wales, son of Llywelyn ap Seisyll King of Gwynedd and Deheubarth and Angharad verch Maredydd Queen of Powys 1013.,1092 (Gruffydd ap Llywelyn King of all Wales was born about 1011 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales and died on 5 Aug 1063 in Snowdona 160.)
Ældgyth next married Harold of Wessex King of England, son of Godwin Ealdorman of Wessex and Gytha Thorkeldóttir.160 (Harold of Wessex King of England was born about 1022 in Wessex, England 160 and died on 14 Oct 1066 in Battle of Hastings, England 160.)
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