| Abstract | The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire estates which, after the Norman Conquest, fell to Ralph de Mortemer had been held in the time of Edward the Confessor by a lady described in the Domesday Book as Eddiva, Eddive or Ededeva. The author argues that she was not the queen of Edward the Confessor and proposes that she may have been Eadgyth Swanneshals, a mistress of Harold |