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Æthelflæd was succeeded by her daughter Ælfwynn, but in December Edward took personal control of Mercia and carried Ælfwynn off to Wessex. Historians disagree whether Mercia was an independent kingdom under Æthelred and Æthelflæd but they agree that Æthelflæd was a great ruler who played an important part in the conquest of the Danelaw.
Æthelred (died 911) became Lord of the Mercians in England shortly after the death or disappearance of Mercia's last king, Ceolwulf II, in 879. He is also sometimes called the Ealdorman of Mercia. Æthelred's rule was confined to the western half, as eastern Mercia was then part of the Viking-ruled Danelaw. His ancestry is unknown.
She is attested by Eadmer's Life of St Dunstan, which says that Æthelflæd Eneda, daughter of Ordmær, ealdorman (dux) of the East Angles, became the lawful wife (coniunx legitima) of Edgar while he was king of the Mercians (between 957 and 959), and died 'a few years later'. Æthelflæd was thought to have been a strong, independent and well ...
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, U.S. Beilhartz disappeared after falling behind his parents while hiking during a vacation at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. [88] 19 March 1939 Lloyd L. Gaines: 27–28 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Gaines was a central figure in the legal case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v.
Olivia was shot in the head by her mother, Tranyelle Harshman, 32, at the family home in Byron, Wyoming, on Feb. 10, in a murder-suicide rampage in which the mom also killed her 9-year-old sister ...
A vigil has been held to honor the life of Jennaleah “Jenna” Hin, the 17-year-old girl who was found dead by suicide in a Nevada desert after she disappeared following an argument with her ...
The novel A Chronicle of Ethelfled (1861), by Anne Manning, focused on the relationship between Æthelflæd (called "Ethelfled" in the novel) and her father, King Alfred. [1]
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