Eadgifu
902 - Abt 953 (51 years)-
Name Eadgifu [1, 2] Born 902 [1] Gender Female Died Abt 953 [3] Notes - She married, firstly, Charles III, Roi de France, son of Louis II 'the Stammerer', Roi de France and Adelaide Judith, on 7 October 919. She married, secondly, Herbert III, circa 951 at Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France. She was also known as Ogiva.
Eadgifu or Edgifu, also known as Edgiva or Ogive (Old English: Eadgifu; 902 - after 955) was a daughter of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex and England, and his second wife Ælfflæd. She was born in Wessex.
Marriage to the French King
She was the second wife of King Charles III of France, whom she married in 919 after the death of his first wife, Frederonne. Eadgifu was mother to Louis IV of France.
Flight to England
In 922 Charles III was deposed and the next year taken prisoner by Count Herbert II of Vermandois, an ally of the then current king. To protect her son's safety Eadgifu took him to England in 923 to the court of her half-brother, Athelstan of England.[2] Because of this, Louis IV of France became known as Louis d'Outremer of France. He stayed there until 936, when he was called back to France to be crowned King. Eadgifu accompanied him.
She retired to a convent in Laon. Some sources say that in 951, she left the convent and married Herbert III, Count of Vermandois son of Adalbert, but this is likely an error as Herbert was not born until 953. More likely she married the Herbert son of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois born about 920.
Notes
[1] Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray. pp. 88-89.
[2] Williams, Ann; Alfred P. Smyth, D. P. Kirby (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age
Wikipedia
Person ID I2597 Bosdet Genealogy Last Modified 16 May 2013
Father Edward The Elder King Of England, b. Between 871 and 875, Wantage, Dorset, England 
, d. 17 Jul 924, Farndon-on-Dee, England (Age ~ 53 years) Relationship Natural Mother Ælflæd, d. 920 Relationship Natural Married Abt 901 [3] Family ID F254 Group Sheet
Family 1 Charles, Roi de France III, b. 17 Sep 879, d. 07 Oct 929, Péronne, Somme, Picardie, France (Age 50 years) Married 07 Oct 919 [3, 4] Children 1. Rorico de Laon 2. Louis, IV of France, b. 10 Sep 920, d. 10 Sep 954, Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France (Age 34 years)Family ID F740 Group Sheet
Family 2 Heribert, Comte d'Omois III, b. 927, d. Between 980 and 984 (Age 53 years) Married Abt 951 Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France [4] Children 1. Agnes de Vermandois, b. 953 2. Stephen de Vermandois, b. 952 Family ID F1952 Group Sheet
- She married, firstly, Charles III, Roi de France, son of Louis II 'the Stammerer', Roi de France and Adelaide Judith, on 7 October 919. She married, secondly, Herbert III, circa 951 at Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France. She was also known as Ogiva.
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Sources - [S186] Handbook of British Chronology, E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, editors, (Name: Royal Historical Society; Location: London, U.K; Date: 1986;).
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- [S180] Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy, Alison Weir, (Name: The Bodley Head; Location: London, U.K.; Date: 1999;).
- [S174] Wikipedia.
- [S186] Handbook of British Chronology, E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, editors, (Name: Royal Historical Society; Location: London, U.K; Date: 1986;).