Edith head biography book
An intimate portrait of one of Hollywood's most prolific and controversial costume designers describes her early work as a sketch artist in!
The definitive history of Hollywood's most legendary costume designer, featuring an insightful biography and previously unseen sketches, ephemera, and photos.
Eadgyth
Queen of Germany from 936 to 946
For other people named Eadgyth, see Eadgyth (disambiguation).
Edith of England, also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth (Old English: Ēadgȳð, German: Edgitha; 910–946), a member of the House of Wessex, was a German queen from 936, by her marriage to King Otto I.
Life
Edith was born to the reigning English king Edward the Elder by his second wife, Ælfflæd, and hence was a granddaughter of King Alfred the Great. She had an older sister, Eadgifu. She apparently spent her early years near Winchester in Wessex, moving about frequently with the court,[2] and may have spent her later youth, with her mother, living for a time at a monastery.[3]
At the request of the East Frankish king Henry the Fowler, who wished to stake a claim to equality and to seal the alliance between the two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother King Æthelstan sent his sisters Edith and Edgiva to Germany.
Henry's eldest son and heir to the throne Otto