Ælfwine Haroldsson or Ælfwine (fl. 1060-62) was most probably a son of King

Harold Harefoot Harold I (died 17 March 1040), also known as Harold Harefoot, was King of the English from 1035 to 1040. Harold's nickname "Harefoot" is first recorded as "Harefoh" or "Harefah" in the twelfth century in the history of Ely Abbey, and according ...

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. He was probably born during the early 1030s, either in Scandinavia or after 1035 in England. He appears in an early twelfth-century cartulary from the monastery of Sainte Foi at

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as ''Alboynus'' (a cognate of Ælfwine), alongside the records that he was born in London and was the son of a King ''Heroldus'' (a Latinised version of Harold) and one ''Alveva'' ("Ælfgifu" Latinised). It is also noted that he arrived in Conques in 1060 on pilgrimage and persuaded the local authorities to rebuild the church and make him prior. W. H. Stevenson showed the only chronologically plausible candidate for his father is King Harold Harefoot. With Harold Harefoot's sudden death on 17 March 1040 Ælfwine was most likely left in his otherwise unknown mother's care, or even that of his powerful and influential grandmother

Ælfgifu of Northampton Ælfgifu of Northampton ( non, Álfífa, 990 – after 1036) was the first wife of Cnut the Great, King of England and Denmark, and mother of Harold Harefoot, King of England. She was regent of Norway from 1030 to 1035. Biography Family b ...

, who may be the Ælfgifu of the record mistakenly named as his mother, rather than grandmother.Bolton, T. "Ælfgifu of Northampton"; pp. 247-68 at 267-68 He did not lay any claim to the throne of England.

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Sources

* Tim Bolton, "Reign of King Harold Harefoot", The Literary Encyclopedia, 5 May 2006. * Appears in some sources stating he is King

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