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Æthelflæd is an Anglo-Saxon female name.

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Etymology

Like most Germanic names, the name is composed of two Old English stems: Æthel-, meaning "noble", from Proto-Germanic *aþal (compare Dutch edel "noble" and adel "nobility") and flæd, from Proto-Germanic *flataz, meaning "flat, smooth, even textured"; and can be figuratively be translated as "noble beauty" or "nobly featured". The name Audofleda, borne by the sister of Clovis I and wife of Theodoric the Great, is a Latinisation of a similar, otherwise unattested, Old Frankish variant.

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Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, daughter of Alfred the Great

Æthelflæd of Damerham, queen of England, second wife of King Edmund

Æthelflæd Eneda, first wife of King Edgar and mother of Edward the Martyr

Æthelflæda of Romsey, 11th century abbess

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