Queen Eadgyth (910 - 946 AD) Re-buried
Daughter of King Alfred and half-sister to King Athelstan, Eadgyth was betrothed to Emperor Otto of Germany in 929 AD. After her death she was entombed beneath a cathedral and over the centuries was moved multiple times. Her skeletal remains are not complete but were intact enough to give archaeologists a glimpse back 1,100 years at one of the more prominent female figures of the period. She has now been re-interred (she was buried a second time in 1510). Quite a number of German citizens showed up at the ceremony to pay their respects!
