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Queen Edith, the Confessor's widow, who was a large landholder, appears as Eddeve, Adeve, Adiva by anything but her true old English name of Eadgyth. But it was much that the subdued English folk appeared there at all. The most real grievance that the English had to complain of was the Forest Laws.
Freeman's words, Anselm "gave her his blessing and she went forth as we may say Lady-Elect of the English." On her marriage she laid aside her English name Eadgyth, and assumed that of Matilda or Maud. Robert of Gloucester calls her "Molde the gode quene." And Peter de Langtoft says of her
The next abbess worthy of notice was Mary, daughter of King Stephen, of whom a true and romantic story is told, and who, by breaking her vows and marrying caused a great scandal at the time. She was the youngest daughter of the king, and a granddaughter on her mother's side of Mary, whom Christine had brought up with her sister Eadgyth.
And seeing that the Danes were in the town I knew that all was lost, and that here I might stay no longer if Eadgyth was to be saved. I ran to where I had left my horse, and mounted and fled also, following the king, for that gate led to the road along the south bank of the river.
So the king had passed by before the procession set out, and I knew not what to think. "What bride?" said Ingvar. And the music answered him, coming nearer and nearer, and now they were crossing Hoxne bridge a bright little array of wedding guests, and in the midst I could see those two, Egfrid and Eadgyth, and after came a crowd of village folk. "See yonder," said a Dane, pointing.
Then I said that if Beorn was ever near Lodbrok, I would be nearer, and so we left the matter. There was one other thing, which was more pleasant, which we spoke about at that time. And it was about the betrothal of my sister Eadgyth. For it had come to pass that Egfrid, my friend, had sought her hand, and the match pleased us all.
So we rode to Thetford, and how we were received there is no need for me to tell, for I came back as it were from the dead, and Egfrid after years of absence. And there with Eadmund were my father and mother, and Eadgyth, and Lodbrok, and Egfrid's folk also, with many more friends to greet us, and the king would have us keep Yuletide with him.
But my one voice prevailed not at all, and after a while I went down to Reedham, and there bided with my mother and Eadgyth, very lonely and sad at heart in the place where I had looked for such happiness with my father and Lodbrok and Halfden at first, and now of late, for a few days, with Osritha, and Halfden in Lodbrok's place.
The serf could not change his abode, he could not marry, he could not bequeath his goods, without the permission of his lord. Cunigunda of Luxemburg. Liutgarde, daughter of Eadgyth and Otto I. | + Otto. | + Henry. | + CONRAD II, the Salic, 1024-1039, m.
I would ask nothing of this matter, even of Osritha, having my own thoughts thereon, and not being willing to press her on things she might have been bidden to keep from me. She would ask me of my mother and Eadgyth, as they would ask the jarl of her, and I told her all I could, though that was not much, for a man hardly notes things as a woman will.
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