Emma de Normandy

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 235:19, Emma married to Æthelred, King of England, as his second wife. She was the daughter of Richard I, the Fearless, Duke of Normandy and Gunnora of Denmark. Æthelred and Emma were parents of Godgifu who married Dreux, comté de Vexin. ¹⁶⁰

~The Normans, p. 22, Emma, the sister of Richard II, married King Æthelred of England, and established a link with the royal English family which William the Conqueror could later use to claim his right to the British throne. ¹⁶⁷

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Emma of Normandy.
Emma was born in Normandy and was the daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, and his second wife, Gunnora. Through her marriages to Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great, she became the Queen Consort of England, Denmark, and Norway. She was the mother of three sons, Edward the Confessor, Alfred, and Harthacnut, as well as two daughters, Goda of England, and Gunhilda of Denmark. Even after her husbands' deaths Emma remained in the public eye, and continued to participate actively in politics. Emma is the "first of the early medieval queens" portrayed visually and she is the central figure within the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a critical source for the history of early 11th-century English politics.

Emma married Æthelred II "The Unready" King of England, son of Edgar "The Peaceable" King of England and Ælfthryth of Devon Queen Of England, in 1002 ¹⁶⁰.^,851 (Æthelred II "The Unready" King of England was born about 979 in Wessex, England,¹⁶⁰ died on 23 Apr 1016 in London, Middlesex, England ^160,470 and was buried in 1017 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Middlesex, England ⁴⁷⁰.)