• Harold's earldom. The following year, Ælfgar was outlawed for a second time, but he was restored to office before long. Ælfgar is last heard of in 1062 and seems...
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  • Ælfgar is an Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name, from ælf "elf" and gar "spear", that may refer to: Ælfgar of Lichfield (died c. 947), bishop of Lichfield...
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    Anglia returned to Ælfgar. Ælfgar seems to have learned from the tactics Godwin used to put pressure on King Edward. When Ælfgar was exiled in 1055,...
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    height, but in 1055 Leofric's own son Ælfgar was outlawed, "without any fault", says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Ælfgar raised an army in Ireland and Wales...
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  • Rhydderch in battle and recaptured Deheubarth. Gruffydd allied himself with Ælfgar, son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of...
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  • Ælfgar (Algar), according to 16th-century antiquarian John Leland, was a saint venerated at a chapel in the forest of Selwood, three miles from Mells (near...
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  • name Ælfgifu upon her marriage to Æthelred the Unready Ælfgifu, wife of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia Ælfgifu, daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and sister...
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    and Ralph died, and Leofric's son Ælfgar succeeded as Earl of Mercia, while Harold's brother Gyrth succeeded Ælfgar as Earl of East Anglia. The fourth...
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  • Wulfgar (died c. 947) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield. Wulfgar was consecrated between 935 and 941 and died between 946 and 949. He is known to history...
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  • earl of Mercia" (d. 1071): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52351 in Ann Williams, ‘Ælfgar, earl of Mercia (d. 1062?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford...
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  • child. He appears to have assisted Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia in their struggles against Wessex, although his primary...
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  • Ælfgar was a medieval Bishop of Elmham. Ælfgar was consecrated in 1001 and resigned the see between 1012 and 1016. He died on 24 or 25 December 1021. Fryde...
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  • Burgheard (died 1061) was a son of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia. He was also the brother of Edwin and Morcar, who succeeded their father as earls of Mercia and...
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    "Gentle Swan" . She is sometimes confused with Ealdgyth, daughter of Earl Ælfgar of Mercia, who was queen during Harold's reign. Edith was born circa 1025...
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  • father, and Ælfgar, son of Earl Leofric, became earl of East Anglia. A major reshuffle occurred after both Leofric and Ralf died in 1057. Ælfgar succeeded...
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    Edmund and Eadred. Ælfgar, the father of Edmund's second wife Æthelflæd, was ealdorman of Essex from 946 to 951. Edmund presented Ælfgar with a sword decorated...
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  • and killed. It is possible that Ælfgifu was a kinswoman of the wife of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, also called Ælfgifu. When Swein invaded, northern peoples...
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  • Wessex in his place, and he was again replaced in East Anglia by Ælfgar. In 1055 Ælfgar was outlawed and driven into exile, but within the year he had regained...
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  • ap Llywelyn and Ælfgar, exiled son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, raid England, and sack Hereford. Harold Godwinson makes peace with Ælfgar, who returns from...
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  • both a given name and a surname. It originates from the Anglo-Saxon name Ælfgar, meaning “elf spear.” Notable people with the name include: Alger of Liège...
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  • English: Mōrcǣr, Old Norse: Mǫrukári) (died after 1087) was the son of Ælfgār (earl of Mercia) and brother of Ēadwine. He was the earl of Northumbria...
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  • of England. On the deaths of Earl Siward of Northumbria (1055) and later Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia (1062), the children of Godwin were poised to take near-total...
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  • Hagley Park Academy was originally founded as Hagley Park County Secondary Modern in 1955 and was located in Rugeley, Staffordshire. Later it was rebuilt...
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    manuscripts say the following: [C]: "Earl Ælfgar, son of Earl Leofric, was outlawed without any fault ..." [D]: "Earl Ælfgar, son of Earl Leofric, was outlawed...
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  • bishop of Lindsey (or perhaps Lichfield) Burgheard, son of Ælfgar (died 1061), son of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia Burchard (disambiguation) Bouchard This disambiguation...
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    on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2011. Williams, Ann (2004). "Ælfgar, earl of Mercia (d. 1062?)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford...
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    English Ælfrēd, "elf-advice"). Also surviving are the English surname Elgar (Ælfgar, "elf-spear"), and the name of St Alphege (Ælfhēah, "elf-tall"). German...
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    Cuthmann of Steyning Lewina of Bishopstone West Saxon Æbbe of Abingdon Ælfgar of Selwood Ælfgifu of Exeter Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury Ælfheah of Canterbury...
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    the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. They had nine children; one son was Ælfgar. Godiva's name occurs in charters and the Domesday survey, though the spelling...
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  • 2020 album by British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Elger (disambiguation) Ælfgar This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Elgar...
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