Æthelswith OF WESSEX Queen of Mercia ¹⁸⁴⁶

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  Noted events in her life were:

1. Title of Nobility: Queen of Mercia,,.

2. Marriage: in 853, in Chippenham, , Mercia, Anglo Saxon Britain. ¹⁸⁴⁸

3. Exiled: To Italy, in 874, in Rome, Rome Capital, Lazio, Italy. ¹⁸⁴⁸ Driven from their kingdom in 874 by Vikings; Æthelswith and Burgred fled to Rome. He died shortly after. Æthelswith lived on in Italy, to be buried at Pavia in 888.

Æthelswith married Burghred OF MERCIA King of Mercia, son of Beorhtwulf OF MERCIA King of Mercia and Sædryð OF ESSEX, in 853 in Chippenham, , Mercia, Anglo Saxon Britain. (Burghred OF MERCIA King of Mercia was born in 830,¹⁸⁴⁶ died in 874 in Rome, Rome Capital, Lazio, Italy ¹⁸⁴⁶ and was buried in 874 in Rome, Rome Capital, Lazio, Italy ¹⁸⁴⁶.)