Ælla (or Ælle or Aelle, fl. 866; died 21 March 867) was King of Northumbria, a kingdom in medieval England, during the middle of the 9th century. Sources...
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revenge against Northumbria for the death of his father, who was supposedly killed by Ælla of Northumbria. While he himself only ruled Northumbria directly for...
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Blood eagle (category European instruments of torture)
"Tale of Ragnar's sons"), Ivar the Boneless has captured king Ælla of Northumbria, who had killed Ivar's father Ragnar Loðbrók. The killing of Ælla, after...
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the daughter of king Ælla of Northumbria and they had two children, Harthacanute and Áslaug Sigurðardóttir, who was married to Helge of the Dagling lineage...
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Ivar the Boneless (category Monarchs of Jorvik)
ploy of Dido). Late the next year, the army turned north and invaded Northumbria, eventually capturing Ælla at York in 867. According to legend, Ælla was...
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Ragnar Lodbrok (category Mythological kings of Denmark)
led by the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok to wreak revenge against King Ælla of Northumbria who is told to have captured and executed Ragnar. The Chronicon Roskildense...
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Cuthberto dates the seizure of these lands to the year before Osberht's death. Osberht was replaced as king by Ælla. While Ælla is described in most sources...
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battle, and Ragnarr's death at the hands of king Ælla of Northumbria. Ragnarr Loðbrók is a great warrior, son of the Danish king Sigurðr hringr Randvérsson...
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capture Ælla. In the spring of 867 Ælla and Osberht put aside their differences and united in an attempt to push the invaders out of Northumbria, leading...
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his army in England and begins to ravage and burn. When king Ælla of Northumbria learns of the pillaging army, he musters an overwhelming force and defeats...
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Ælla became king in 560. Anachronistically, the name of his kingdom is given as Northumbria, but the region was actually...
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Æthelfrith (redirect from Aethelfrith of Northumbria)
former king Ælla, and Hereric, Edwin's nephew, who were both notable members of the Deiran royal line; the short five-year reign of Æthelric of Deira, who...
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son named Ealdred, father of Waltheof of Bamburgh, father of Uhtred of Northumbria; see McGuigan, ′Ælla and the descendants of Ivar′, pp. 25, 33. Stenton...
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Scandinavian York (redirect from Kingdom of York)
Northumbria where the Anglo-Saxons were embroiled in a civil war. In 862 the ruler of Northumbria, Osberht, had been deposed by Ælla of Northumbria....
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following the death of kings Ælla and Osberht in battle against the Vikings of the Great Heathen Army at York on 21 March 867. Symeon of Durham records: Nearly...
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Danelaw (redirect from History of the Danelaw)
captured Northumbria and its capital, York ("Jórvík"), defeating both the recently deposed King Osberht of Northumbria and the usurper Ælla of Northumbria. The...
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Halfdan Ragnarsson (category Monarchs of Jorvik)
revenge against Ælla of Northumbria. Ælla had supposedly had Ragnar executed in 865 by throwing him in a snake pit, but the historicity of this explanation...
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describes Ealdred's father Eadwulf as the grandson of Ælla of Northumbria (d. 867), via a daughter of the latter, Æthelthryth (it does not name Eadwulf's...
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Great Heathen Army (category Kingdom of East Anglia)
brothers as a response to the death of their father at the hands of Ælla of Northumbria in 865, but the historicity of this claim is uncertain. In late 865...
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Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira...
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of Waltheof Earl of Northampton (and, briefly, Northumbria), makes Eadwulf the son of Æthelthryth daughter of Ælla, King of Northumbria, but no source names...
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to the later rulers of the Scandinavian kingdoms. For Denmark, it relates that by Blaeja, the daughter of King Ælla of Northumbria, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye...
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Father of Princess Judith, Aethelwulf's wife, and grandfather of Princes Aethelred and Alfred. Based on the historical King Ælla of Northumbria. He killed...
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hands of King Ælla of Northumbria. Ælla allegedly had Ragnar thrown into a snake pit. It is said that Ragnar's enraged sons, taking advantage of political...
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Frank Thring (category Australian people of German descent)
barrister in The Case of Mrs. Loring (1958), the usurping king Aella (Ælla of Northumbria) in The Vikings (1958) and Herod Antipas in King of Kings (1961). Thring...
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overlordship of Æthelberht of Kent. In 616, as a result of fighting the Battle of the River Idle and defeating Æthelfrith of Northumbria, he was able...
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This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources...
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emperor Louis the Pious War of the Northumbrian succession (865–867), between king Osberht and king Ælla of Northumbria; their infighting was interrupted...
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The Vikings (film) (category Cultural depictions of Ragnar Lodbrok)
Alexander Knox as Father Godwin Maxine Audley as Enid Frank Thring as Aella of Northumbria Eileen Way as Kitala Edric Connor as Sandpiper Dandy Nichols as Bridget...
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