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| |name=Ælfflæd | |||
| |succession=Queen consort of Northumbria | |||
| |reign=792–796 | |||
| |spouse=] (m. 792) | |||
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| ⚫ | '''Ælfflæd''' was a daughter of ] and ]. | ||
| She may have witnessed a ] with her father, mother, and brother ] in the 770s. She certainly witnessed a charter in 787 with her mother, father, brother, and two sisters; here she is described as ''virgo''—unmarried.<ref>{{citation|title=Sawyer 1267|url= http://www.esawyer.org.uk/charter/127.html#| publisher= esawyer.org.uk|accessdate= 2015-04-14}}</ref> | |||
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| ⚫ | It is possible that she was the daughter of Offa whose proposed marriage to ] caused a dispute between ] and Offa in around 789–790. | ||
| In 792 she married ] at ]. Here she is described as "queen", which has suggested to some historians that she had been previously married, and to a king, perhaps to one of Æthelred's predecessors. | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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| ⚫ | * Kirby |
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| ==Further reading== | |||
| ⚫ | *{{citation |last=Kirby |first=D. P. |title=The Earliest English Kings |location=London |publisher=Unwin |isbn=0-04-445692-1 |year=1991 }} | ||
| *{{citation |last=Stafford |first=Pauline |authorlink=Pauline Stafford |contribution=Political Women in Mercia, Eighth to Early Tenth Centuries |editor-first=Michelle P. |editor-last=Brown |editor2-first=Carol A. |editor2-last=Farr |title=Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe |location=Leicester |publisher=Leicester University Press |origyear=2001 |isbn=0-8264-7765-8 |pages=35–49 |year=2005 }} | |||
| *{{citation |last=Woolf |first=Alex |author-link=Alex Woolf |title=From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070 |year=2007 |series=The New Edinburgh History of Scotland |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |isbn=978-0-7486-1234-5}} | |||
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Latest revision as of 22:31, 22 January 2024
For other people with the same name, see Ælfflæd.Queen consort of Northumbria
| Ælfflæd | |
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| Queen consort of Northumbria | |
| Tenure | 792–796 |
| Spouse | Æthelred I of Northumbria (m. 792) |
| Father | Offa of Mercia |
| Mother | Cynethryth |
Ælfflæd was a daughter of Offa of Mercia and Cynethryth.
She may have witnessed a charter with her father, mother, and brother Ecgfrith in the 770s. She certainly witnessed a charter in 787 with her mother, father, brother, and two sisters; here she is described as virgo—unmarried.
It is possible that she was the daughter of Offa whose proposed marriage to Charles the Younger caused a dispute between Charlemagne and Offa in around 789–790.
In 792 she married Æthelred I of Northumbria at Catterick. Here she is described as "queen", which has suggested to some historians that she had been previously married, and to a king, perhaps to one of Æthelred's predecessors.
References
- Sawyer 1267, esawyer.org.uk, retrieved 14 April 2015
Further reading
- Kirby, D. P. (1991), The Earliest English Kings, London: Unwin, ISBN 0-04-445692-1
- Stafford, Pauline (2005) , "Political Women in Mercia, Eighth to Early Tenth Centuries", in Brown, Michelle P.; Farr, Carol A. (eds.), Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe, Leicester: Leicester University Press, pp. 35–49, ISBN 0-8264-7765-8
- Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-1234-5
External links
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