# Wynflaed

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{{Short description|Anglo-Saxon noblewoman}}{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Wynflæd or Ƿynflæd
| title        = Anglo-Saxon Noblewoman
| death_date   = c.950 or c.960
| issue        = [Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury](/source/%C3%86lfgifu_of_Shaftesbury)
}}

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'''Wynflæd''' or '''Ƿynflæd''' (died {{circa|950 or 960}}) was an [Anglo-Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxon) noblewoman and a major landowner in the areas of [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire), [Somerset](/source/Somerset), [Dorset](/source/Dorset) and [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire).<ref>[PASE](/source/Prosopography_of_Anglo-Saxon_England): {{PASE|173468|Wynnflæd 1|nm=1}}; Charter S1539</ref> Wynflæd is likely a widow vowess primarily connected to royal foundation at [Shaftesbury Abbey](/source/Shaftesbury_Abbey),<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Owen|first=Gale R.|date=December 1979|title=Wynflæd's wardrobe |journal=Anglo-Saxon England|language=en|volume=8|pages=195–222|doi=10.1017/S0263675100003082|issn=1474-0532}},{{Cite book|last=Foot|first=Sarah|title=Veiled Women, Volume 1: The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England|publisher=Routledge|location=London|year=2000|chapter="Widows and Vowesses"}}</ref> with further connections to royal nunnery at [Wilton Abbey](/source/Wilton_Abbey). There is ongoing debate if she was the mother of [Aelfgifu of Shaftesbury](/source/Aelfgifu_of_Shaftesbury) and thus the grandmother of Kings [Eadwig](/source/Eadwig) and [Edgar the Peaceful](/source/Edgar_the_Peaceful).<ref>PASE: {{PASE|139905|Wynnflæd 4|nm=1}}; Charter S744, {{Cite book|last=Yorke|first=Barbara, A. E.|title=Edgar, King of the English 959-975: New Interpretations|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|year=2008|editor-last=Scragg|editor-first=Donald G.|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk|chapter="The Women in Edgar's Life"}}</ref>

==Wynflæd's Will==

[[File:S 1539 Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950 (11th-century copy, BL Cotton Charters viii. 38).jpg|thumb|right|350px|Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950 (11th-century copy, [British Library](/source/British_Library) Cotton Charters viii. 38)<ref>Charter [http://www.esawyer.org.uk/charter/1539.html S 1539] at the Electronic Sawyer</ref>]]Wynflæd's will has provided scholars with ample materials to better understand tenth-century England and Wessex in particular, including social conditions, material goods, familial strategies, religious women and legal processes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Owen|first=Gale R.|date=December 1979|title=Wynflæd's wardrobe |journal=Anglo-Saxon England|language=en|volume=8|pages=195–222|doi=10.1017/S0263675100003082|issn=1474-0532}},{{Cite book|last=Tollerton|first=Linda|date=2011|title=Wills and Will-Making in Anglo-Saxon England|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9781903153376|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk}},{{Cite journal|last=Crick|first=Julia|date=October 1999|title=Women, Posthumous Benefaction, and Family Strategy in Pre-Conquest England|journal=Journal of British Studies|language=en|volume=38|issue=4|pages=399–422|doi=10.1086/386201 }},{{Cite book|last=Weikert|first=Katherine|title=The Middle Ages Revisited: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Medieval Southern England Presented to Professor David A. Hinton|publisher=Archaeopress|year=2018|isbn=9781789690354|editor-last=Jervis|editor-first=Ben|location=Oxford|chapter=Of Pots and Pins: The Households of Late Anglo-Saxon Faccombe Netherton}}</ref> Her will lists holdings and estates including Faccombe Netherton (modern [Netherton, Hampshire](/source/Netherton%2C_Hampshire)) and [Charlton Horethorne](/source/Charlton_Horethorne) along with further manors and lands, and moveable goods such as tents, chests, cups, and clothing.

In 2018–19, Wynflæd's will was displayed in the [British Library](/source/British_Library) exhibition ''Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/10/anglo-saxon-kingdoms-a-once-in-a-generation-exhibition.html|title=Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: a once-in-a-generation exhibition|magazine=British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog|date=18 October 2018|access-date=23 December 2023}}</ref> and included in the exhibition catalogue edited by [Claire Breay](/source/Claire_Breay) and [Joanna Story](/source/Joanna_Story).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shop.bl.uk/products/anglo-saxon-kingdoms-paperback|title=Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Paperback)|magazine=British Library Shop|access-date=23 December 2023}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{PASE|173468|Wynnflæd 1|nm=1}}, {{PASE|107477|Wynnflæd 2|nm=1}}, {{PASE|139905|Wynnflæd 4|nm=1}}, and {{PASE|140146|Wynnflæd 3}} may all relate to her.
*[http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/09/wynflaed-and-the-price-of-fashion.html British Library blog]
*[https://forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/wealthy-wynflaeds-wonderful-will/ Wealthy Wynflæd’s wonderful will]

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Category:10th-century English landowners
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