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4 giorni fa · As allied neighbors, Gruffydd and Ælfgar were "fortified against all attack", argued Lloyd, as their territory included Gruffydd's Wales, and Ælfgar's Mercia and Anglia. However, Earl Ælfgar died in 1062 and was succeeded by his young and inexperienced son Edwin. The loss of a strong Mercian ruler exposed Gruffydd's position.
4 giorni fa · The second story is more puzzling, but may represent some confused memory also of the 1050s, when Gruffudd intrigued with Earl Ælfgar of Mercia, Magnus, son of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, and the men of the Isles. Other wonders attributed to the saint perhaps also date from the same period.
5 giorni fa · As king of Mercia in 958, Edgar granted land to St Werburgh's Minster, Chester. This was an unreformed community, a house of secular clergy, and would have been an unlikely beneficiary of royal patronage later in Edgar's reign.
2 giorni fa · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
4 giorni fa · Alveva, widow of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, had held 5 carucates in Aylestone with 12 ploughs before the Conquest. (fn. 30) She was dead by 1086, and the lands were in the possession of the king, who had 2 ploughs and 1 serf in demesne; there were also 18 villeins, a socman and 8 bordars, who had 6 ploughs, and the whole holding ...
5 giorni fa · Godiva was a historic person, the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, mother of Ælfgar, Earl of East Anglia, and grandmother of Edwin and Morcar and of Aldgyth, wife of Gruffyd, Prince of Wales, and, after his death, of King Harold.
14 mag 2024 · Leofric Earl of Mercia (14 May 968 - 31 Aug 1057 ... Abt 999: Coventry, Warwickshire, England - Godiva of Mercia: Burial: 1057: ... Ælfgar EARL OF MERCIA ...
