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- Princess Edith the Younger was daughter of Edward the Elder, King of
England, by his second wife, Elflaed. She became the first wife of
Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor & King of Germany. His father,
Henry I the Fowler sent to ask King Athelstan for one of his sisters
as a wife for his eldest son. Athelstan sent two, Edith, who married
Otto, and Elgith, who was married to Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia.
Edith was a pious and exemplary woman. She had a son Liudolf and a
daughter Liutgard. Otto's second wife was St. Adelaide.
Edith does not seem to be called Saint by any reliable authority. She
appears in a list of sainted English queens preserved in Analecta
Juris Pontificii (1823). She is called Blessed by Arturus du Monstier,
on the alleged authority of Baronius, who, however, does not so style
her. She is not in the Manipulus, where every possible English
princess is inserted.
(Edited from Agnes Dunbar's "A Dictionary of Saintly Women")
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, d. 17 Jul 924, Farndon-on-Dee