Ælfflæd

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Ealdred (died 1038), earl of Northumbria.

This relationship is given by Aird (ODNB), McGuigan (p. 124), and by van Houts (p. 261)

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Siward (died 1055), earl of Northumbria.

This relationship is given by Aird (ODNB), McGuigan (p. 124), and by van Houts (p. 261).

Children:

Osbeorn (killed in battle 27 July 1054).

Waltheof (about 1050 - executed 31 May 1076). He became earl of Northumbria. Married Judith.

References

Aird, William M. “Siward, earl of Northumbria (d. 1055)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Lewis, C.P. “Waltheof, earl of Northumbria (c. 1050 - 1076)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

McGuigan, Neil. Neither Scotland nor England: Middle Britain, c. 850-1150. A thesis submitted for the degree of PhD at the University of St Andrews. 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7829

Plummer, Charles (ed.) Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: A Revised Text (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-1899).

Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England” in Normandy and Its Neighbours, 900-1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011), pp. 237-270.

“Ælfflæd 24” on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England website. [accessed 11 June 2014]