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    Flores Historiarum of Roger of Wendover. Roger states that Ælfwald had overthrown Eardwulf. Ælfwald allegedly reigned for two years before Eardwulf returned...
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  • Ælfwald (also Alfwald or Aelfwald or Elfwald) may refer to: King Ælfwald I of Northumbria (died 788) King Ælfwald II of Northumbria (fl. 806–808) King...
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  • King Ælfwald II, about whom nothing else is known from the written sources, although coins issued in his reign have survived. As the case of Ælfwald shows...
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    considered a saint. Ælfwald was succeeded by his first cousin Osred, son of Alhred and Osgifu, daughter of Eadberht Eating. Ælfwald's sons Ælf and Ælfwine...
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    the support of Charlemagne and Pope Leo III. He ousts the usurper, King Ælfwald II. Cadell ap Brochfael, king of Powys (modern Wales), dies after a 35-year...
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    of the North, a joint Anglo-Danish force loyal to Edgar Ætheling and Sweyn II was able to seize control of York in the second half of 1069 and temporarily...
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  • Robert II, Frankish nobleman (approximate date) Stephen the Hymnographer, Syrian monk (b. 725) Widukind, duke of Saxony (approximate date) 808 Ælfwald II, king...
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    King Eardwulf of Northumbria is expelled from his kingdom by his rival Ælfwald II, who takes the throne. Eardwulf flees to the Frankish court of Charlemagne...
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  • Canterbury. 806 Eardwulf of Northumbria is deposed and apparently succeeded by Ælfwald II. In 808 Eardwulf perhaps returns to the throne for an uncertain period...
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  • (complete list) – Eardwulf, King (796–806/808) Ælfwald II, King (806/808–808/810) Eanred, King (810–841) Æthelred II, King (840/841–844, 858–862) Redwulf, King...
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    The last king of the Wuffingas dynasty, Ælfwald succeeded his father Ealdwulf, who had ruled for 49 years. Ælfwald himself ruled for 36 years. Their combined...
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  • revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. Ælfwald 68 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Catholic Online Saints and Angels:...
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    ISBN 978-1-85285-012-8. Naismith, Rory (2014). "A new type for Æthelberht II of East Anglia" (PDF). British Numismatic Journal. 84. British Numismatic...
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    788. King Ælfwald I of Northumbria is murdered, probably at Chesters, by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga. He is succeeded by his cousin Osred II. September...
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    throne passed on to Ælfwald, a grandson of Eadberht Eating. Æthelred lived in exile during the reign of Ælfwald and his successor Osred II. However, in 788...
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  • Osred II was King of Northumbria from 789 to 790. He was the son of Alhred and Osgifu, daughter of Eadberht. He succeeded Ælfwald, son of his mother's...
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  • Oswald, iii, 14) writes of Ælfwald: "He was exalted with such great authority, that he even disdained to become an ealdorman; Ælfwald 42 at Prosopography of...
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  • Guthrum II was, according to some reconstructions, a King of East Anglia in the early 10th century. The Viking ruler of the kingdom of East Anglia is the...
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  • 23 September – Ælfwald I of Northumbria is murdered, probably at Chesters, by ealdorman Sicga and succeeded by his first cousin Osred II as king of Northumbria...
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  • (Second Edition, reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6. Ælfwald 53 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England v t e...
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  • Great Summer Army (Old English: mycel sumorlida). Guthrum, a nephew of Horik II of Denmark and a failed candidate for a share of the Danish throne, was one...
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    Ecgric [c] Anna Æthelhere Æthelwold Ealdwulf Ælfwald Beonna [c] Alberht [c] Æthelred I [s] Æthelberht II Offa [km] Eadwald Cœnwulf [km] Ceolwulf [km]...
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  • (759–765) Ealhred, King (765–774) Æthelred I, King (774–779) Ælfwald I, King (788–790) Osred II, King (790–796) Osbald, King (796) Eardwulf, King (796–806/808)...
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  • Ecgric [c] Anna Æthelhere Æthelwold Ealdwulf Ælfwald Beonna [c] Alberht [c] Æthelred I [s] Æthelberht II Offa [km] Eadwald Cœnwulf [km] Ceolwulf [km]...
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    1980, p. 171. Bugyis 2019, p. 225 and n. 1; Winterbottom 2007, pp. 294–297 (ii.86.6); Marafioti 2014, pp. 214–215. Yorke 2021, p. 68. Keynes 1999, pp. 55–56...
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    region. Princes Ælf and Ælfwine of Northumbria, the sons of former king Ælfwald I, are persuaded to leave their sanctuary in York Minster, and are immediately...
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    Chronicle (Manuscript D: Cotton Tiberius B IV) records the murder of King Ælfwald by Sicga at Scythlecester (which may be modern Chesters) on 23 September...
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    the papal lists were updated to the time of later-9th century Pope Adrian II. The leaves containing the Anglian collection bear no resemblance to the remainder...
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    Viking raids and later settlement. Ælfwald of East Anglia died in 749 after ruling for thirty-six years. During Ælfwald's rule, his kingdom enjoyed sustained...
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    who was deposed by an otherwise unknown Ælfwald in 806. According to the History of the Church of Durham, Ælfwald ruled for two years before Eanred succeeded...
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