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[edit] Judith
I deleted a reference to the annulment of Judith's marriage to Æthelbald as there are no sources for this, but the deletion was reversed with a reference to peerage.com. This is not an academic source and is not reliable. For example, it has two non-existent children of Æthelberht, one of them an obvious confusion with Æthelred's son Æthelwold, who disputed the throne with Edward the Elder.
There are two sources cited by historians for the marriage. Asser in his life of Alfred condemned the marriage, but did not say that it was annulled, which he would have done if he could. The Annals of St Bertin says that after Æthelbald died Judith sold her possessions and returned to her father. These sources are cited by Janet Nelson in the online DNB on Judith (in her article on Æthelwulf) and Keynes and Lapidge in their edition of Asser, and neither make any mention of an annulment. There is also no mention of an annulment in the DNB article on Æthelbald or the entry for Judith in the Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain by Ann Williams and other leading academic experts.
I have therefore again deleted the reference to an annulment. Dudley Miles (talk) 23:48, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
