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Æthelflæd Æthelflæd (from The Cartulary and Customs of Abingdon Abbey, c. 1220) Lady of the Mercians Reign 911–918 Predecessor Æthelred Successor Ælfwynn Born c. 870 Died 12 June 918 (aged c. 48) Tamworth, Staffordshire Burial St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester Spouse Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians Issue Ælfwynn, Lady of the Mercians House Wessex Father Alfred the Great Mother Ealhswith ...
Uhtred Uhtredson – Uhtred's son; King Alfred of Wessex – The King of Wessex and Utred's feudal lord; Aethelflaed – King Alfred's daughter and wife to Athelred; Aethelred – Ealdorman of Mercia and Alfred's son-in-law; Aethelwold of Wessex – Nephew of King Alfred; Steapa Snotor – A fierce Saxon warrior, captain of Alfred's house ...
In a 2011 production for the Chester Heritage Trail called Aethelflaeda: Saxon Queen she was played by Lisa-Marie Hoctor. In the television series The Last Kingdom she was played by Millie Brady from 2017-2022. [7] Arman, Joanna (2017). The Warrior Queen : the Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great. Stroud, UK: Amberley.
When Æthelred made a grant to Berkeley Abbey in 883, he did it with the approval of King Alfred, thus acknowledging Alfred's lordship. [16] Thereafter he usually acted with Alfred's permission, but issued some charters in his own name without reference to Alfred, such as at a meeting in Risborough in Buckinghamshire in 884, showing that ...
Edward the Elder (870s? – 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924. He was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his wife Ealhswith.When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin Æthelwold, who had a strong claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred I.
In Maggie Bailey's view, she probably entered holy orders. It is possible that she is the religious woman named Ælfwynn who is the beneficiary of charter S 535 dated 948 in the reign of King Eadred. [8] [9] Shashi Jayakumar suggests that she may have been the Ælfwynn who was wife of Æthelstan Half-King and foster-mother of the future King ...
Second Son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith: Ælfthryth of Wessex Countess of Flanders 877–929 Second Daughter of King Alfred the Great and Queen Ealhswith: Baldwin II Margrave of Flanders c. 865 –918: Ælfwynn 'Second Lady of the Mercians' b. c. 888: King Æthelstan c. 893/895 –939 King of the Anglo-Saxons r. 924–927 King of the ...
Æthelred ruled English Mercia under Alfred and was married to his daughter Æthelflæd. Alfred died in 899 and was succeeded by Edward. Æthelwold, the son of Æthelred, King Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king, made a bid for power, but was killed at the Battle of the Holme in 902. [9]