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The royal consorts of Wessex were the wives of the kings who ruled the Kingdom of Wessex. In Wessex, it was not common for a king's wife to be called a queen. However, Judith was crowned queen after she married King Æthelwulf.

Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain. It existed from AD 519 until England became a single country in AD 927. This happened when Æthelstan united the different kingdoms. Æthelstan never married. After this time, there were no longer separate consorts for Wessex. Instead, the consorts were for the monarch of all of England.

Picture Name Parents Birth Marriage Became Consort 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
(She then ruled by herself)
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
Æthelburg c. 688 726 Ine
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
(Later called Redburga, but this name is uncertain)
no earlier than 802 no later than 839 Egbert
Queen Osburga reads for her son, Alfred.gif Osburh Father, Oslac before 839 839 no later than 856 Æthelwulf
Judith of Flanders in the Flandria illustrata.png Judith Father, Charles the Bald
Mother, Ermentrude of Orléans
October 844 1 October 856 13 January 858
(Husband died)
after 870
858 860
Æthelbald
Wulfthryth Between 865 and 868 not after 871 Ethelred I
Queen Ealhswith.png Ealhswith Father, Æthelred Mucil.
Mother, Eadburh
868 23 April 871 26 October 899 5 December 905 Alfred the Great
Ælfflæd Father, Æthelhelm around 901 late 910s after 910 Edward the Elder
Picture of Queen Ediva in Canterbury Cathedral (detail).png Eadgifu Father, Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent before 904 around 919 17 July 924 after 965

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