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Countess Beorhtgifu of Shrewsbury

Countess Beorhtgifu of Shrewsbury (born 851) was the Countess of Shrewsbury.

Biography[]

Beorhtgifu was born in 851 to a lowborn Anglo-Saxon Christian family. She married Earl Leofric of Shrewsbury, who was 52 while she was 16, and she became a countess of Mercia.

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