List of Wessex consorts

The Wessex royal consorts were the wives of the reigning monarchs of the Kingdom of Wessex. History has not always recorded whether each king of Wessex was married or not.

Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from AD 519 until England was unified by Æthelstan (who never married) in AD 927. There have thus been no consorts of an independent Wessex since that date and the following consorts have been those of the monarch of England.

Picture Name Parents Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Seaxburh (possibly) – no earlier than c. 642 – 645 c. 674 Cenwalh
Cynewise (possibly) – no earlier than 645 – no later than 648 – Penda
Seaxburh – no earlier than 648 – 672
Thereafter ruled in her own right
c. 674 Cenwalh
Not reliably recorded. Possibly a sister of Queen Iurminburh. – no earlier than c. 676 – no later than c. 686 – Centwine
Cynethryth – no earlier than 685 – no later than 688 – Cædwalla
Frithugyth – no earlier than 726 – no later than 740 – Æthelheard
Eadburh Father, King Offa of Mercia
Mother, Queen Cynethryth
before 788 – no earlier than 786 – 802 – Beorhtric
Unknown – – – no earlier than 802 – no later than 839 – Egbert
Osburh Father, Oslac – before 839 839 – no later than 856 – Æthelwulf
Judith Father, Charles the Bald
Mother, Ermentrude of Orléans
October 844 1 October 856 – 13 January 858
Husband's death
after 870
858 860
Æthelbald
Wulfthryth – not before 865 – not after 871 – Ethelred I
Ealhswith Father, Æthelred Mucil.
Mother, Eadburh
868 23 April 871 – 26 October 899 5 December 905 Alfred the Great
Ælfflæd – – circa 901 – late 910s Edward the Elder
Eadgifu Father, Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent before 904 circa 919 – 17 July 924 after 965

See also

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