Ælfwald II of Northumbria
Ælfwald II (also Elfvaldus; † 808? ) Was probably 806-808 King of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
Life
Ælfwalds origin is unknown. In the year 806, according to other sources might only 808, King was Eardwulf ( 796-806? , And 808? -810/830 ) From Northumbria expelled. Maybe here drew Cenwulf king ( 796-821 ) of Mercia strings in the background. Ælfwald II, on the almost nothing is known, usurped the throne. Eardwulf fled to Nijmegen to the court of Charlemagne ( 768-814 ), with whom he entered into an alliance. He drove in 808 to Rome, to the support of Pope Leo III. ( 795-816 ) to secure.
Contemporary texts to Ælfwald not exist, but some remained in his reign embossed stycas ( silver coins with very low fines content ) were obtained. Only when the chronicler Symeon of Durham (early 12th century ) and Roger of Wendover (early 13th century ) was a short Ælfwald mentioned by name.
Ælfwald reigned two years, until Eardwulf probably returned in 808, accompanied by the deacon Aldulfus and the abbots Hruotfridus and Nantharius by Northumbria. Eardwulf passed through the intervention of the Frankish envoys returned to the throne. His second term is valid only very uncertain. The list of kings of this century is extremely unclear and so also Eanred the son Eardwulfs, Ælfwalds might have been followers. Other historians such as Simon Keynes hold a second term for possible while especially Kirby and Rollason assume that Eardwulf actually reigned as King of Northumbria for a second time.