### q6 Ælfthryth's coronation normalized queenship in England > Ælfthryth’s queenship was legitimated as no queen-consort’s had been since Judith’s coronation. She was a [regular witness](https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/charter/766.html) to Edgar’s charters, attesting as [*regina*](https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/charter/767.html)[queen] [around twenty times](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/haskins-society-journal-30/beyond-corfe-aelfthryths-roles-as-queen-villain-and-former-sisterinlaw/51F58CAD31349DFD494248820CF2C2DD), the first West Saxon consort to do so. She was a known intermediary with the king, at times receiving gifts for performing in that role. She was a landholder – the queen’s dower having increasingly become a traditional prerogative through the tenth century. She was codified in [*Regularis concordia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularis_Concordia_(Winchester)) as patron and protector of the kingdom’s female religious houses. Finally, she was formally crowned queen in 973 alongside her husband during the pageantry of his second coronation in Bath. Ælfthryth’s tenure as queen was remarkable for the shift toward institutional office that codification of duties and consecration implied – the latter an exemplar for her successors with coronation becoming the norm in the eleventh century. > > a century on from Asser’s cautions around the dangers of queenly power, a consecrated queen stood at the head of English government as mother and regent. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fj78ye736y6mhr4w55c5zv4y) - [[From Æthelflæd to Ælfthryth The Idea of Queenship in Tenth-Century England by Matthew Firth#q6 Ælfthryth's coronation normalized queenship in England|View in Vault]] - [I] might be relevant for my questions about [[regencies can end smoothly with a competent ruler]]. #articleseed/overviewTopic Regencies.