Ælfflæd is a name of
Anglo-Saxon England meaning Ælf (Elf) and flæd (beauty). It may refer to:
* Saint
Ælfflæd of Whitby
Saint Ælfflæd (654–714) was the daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Eanflæd. She was abbess of Whitby Abbey, an abbey of nuns that were known for their skills in medicine, from the death of her kinswoman Hilda in 680, first joi ...
(654–714)
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Ælfflæd of Mercia
Ælfflæd was a daughter of Offa of Mercia and Cynethryth.
She may have witnessed a charter with her father, mother, and brother Ecgfrith in the 770s. She certainly witnessed a charter in 787 with her mother, father, brother, and two sisters; ...
, daughter of Offa, wife of King Æthelred I of Northumbria
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Ælfflæd, wife of Edward the Elder, mother of Ælfweard and Edwin
* Ælfflæd, daughter of
Edgar the Peaceful
Edgar ( ang, Ēadgār ; 8 July 975), known as the Peaceful or the Peaceable, was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. The younger son of King Edmund I and Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, he came to the throne as a teenager followin ...
* Aelfled of
Bernicia
Bernicia ( ang, Bernice, Bryneich, Beornice; la, Bernicia) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.
The Anglian territory of Bernicia was ap ...
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Ælfflæd of Mercia (II)
Ælfflæd or Æthelflæd ( fl. 840) is not recorded before the twelfth century. William of Malmesbury describes Æthelflæd as the daughter of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia, wife of King Wiglaf's son Wigmund, and mother of Wigstan.
According to Th ...
, daughter of Ceolwulf I of Mercia, wife of Wigmund of Mercia, mother of Wigstan of Mercia
See also
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Æthelflæd (name)
References
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