Maldred

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Crinán, abbot of Dunkeld (died 1045).

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 221).

(possible) Mother: Bethóc, daughter of Malcolm II, king of Scots.

This relationship is given by Baldwin, who notes that “no primary source explicitly identifies the Crinán who was Maldred’s father with the Crinán who was Duncan’s father. Woolf (p. 250) states that even if the two Crináns were the same person, it is unlikely that Bethóc was Maldred's mother.

Spouse: Ealdgyth.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 221) and by Woolf.

Children:

Gospatric, earl of Northumbria.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Crínán (or Crónán)” in The Henry Project.

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday Descendants (2002).

“Maldred 1” on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England website. [accessed 28 August 2014]

Woolf, Alex. From Pictland to Alba: 789 - 1070. (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).