 Her patronage of the community is suggested by a charter of King Æthelred, dated 984, according to which the abbey exchanged with King Edmund the large estate at Tisbury (Wiltshire) for "Butticanlea" (unidentified).Ælfgifu received it from her husband and intended to bequeath it back to the nunnery, but such had not yet come to pass (her son Eadwig demanded that "Butticanlea" was returned to the royal family first).Ælfgifu predeceased her husband in 944.