Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Wife of Edward the Outlaw

By O. P. Q.

With reference to the Query of E.H.Y. (Vol. ii., p. 279.), there seems to be much confusion in all the accounts of Edward's marriage. I think it is evident, from an attentive consideration of the various authorities, that the Lady Agatha was either sister to Giselle, wife of *Stephen*, King of Hungary (to whom the young princes must have been sent, as *he* reigned from A.D. 1000 till A.D. 1038), and sister also to the Emperor Henry II., or, as some writers seem to think, she was the daughter of Bruno, that emperor's brother. (See a note in Dr. Lingard's *History*, vol. i. p. 349.) That she was…

Topics: Royal History, Genealogy

Locations: Hungary, England