1188. Eadgifu (Edgiva)³⁶ (EDWARD I "The Elder"³⁶, ALFRED "The Great"³⁷, ETHELWULF ("Noble Wolf")³⁸, EGBERT³⁹, EAHLMUND⁴⁰, EAFA⁴¹, EOPPA⁴², INGILD⁴³, CENRED⁴⁴, CEOWALD⁴⁵, CUTHA⁴⁶, CUTHWINE⁴⁷, (Ceolin)⁴⁸ CAEELIN, CYNRIC⁴⁹ , CERDIC⁵⁰) birth date unknown. Eadgifu died 951.

She married three times. She married CHARLES III "The Simple" 918. CHARLES was born 17 SEP 879. CHARLES⁽⁹¹³⁾ was the son of LOUIS II "The Stammerer" and Adelaide. His body was interred 7 OCT 929 in Peronne. She married Herbert of VERMANDOIS. She married Louis of AQUITAINE.

Her son by CHARLES III "The Simple" was LOUIS IV (III?) "Outremer", who grew up in the English court of his West Saxon uncle, ATHELSTAN. Years after the imprisonment and death of his father, CHARLES III, LOUIS was brought back to France through the offices of another uncle related by marriage through the English, Hugh CAPET, duke of the Franks, who refused the throne for himself after the death of Rudolf, Duke of Burgundy, who had been made the Frankish king by political opponents of CHARLES.

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