Her achievement is notable, as her ascension as ruler of Mercia after Æthelflæd’s death is the only time rule passed from one woman to another in early medieval England. But she was not destined to follow her mother’s successes as Lady of the Mercians. After a few months her uncle, King Edward, removed her from Mercia and, like Queen Cynethryth, she probably lived the rest of her life in a monastery.
