Experts say they’ve identified the bones of 10th-century English Princess Eadgyth
By APThursday, June 17, 2010
Experts ID bones as those of 10th-century princess
LONDON — Experts at the University of Bristol say they’ve identified a bundle of bones entombed in a German cathedral as those of England’s Princess Eadgyth, a 10th-century English royal famous for her beauty and charitable works.
The university said Thursday that analysis of the teeth taken from Magdeburg Cathedral show that they must have belonged to Eadgyth, whom some historians have described as a medieval Princess Diana.
Eadgyth (pronounced Edith) moved to Germany when she married Duke Otto of Saxony, a warlord’s son who would eventually rise to become the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.
Her tomb in Magdeburg was long thought to be empty, but Eadgyth’s remains were discovered when archaeologists opened it in 2008.
