Alhred of Northumbria
Ealchred (also Alhred, Alcred, Alchred, Alachrat, Aluchred ) was 765-774 King of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
Life
Family
Ealchred was a son Eanwines. There is a list of the ancestors Ealchreds descent to Ida of Bernicia ( 547-559/560 ) and his son Eadric returns, but this genealogy probably fictitious.
Ealchred married Osgifu, the daughter of Oswulf ( 758-759 ) or Eadberht ( 737-758 ) was either. Thus it was related to Archbishop of York Ecgbert. Osred II, the son Ealchreds and Osgifus was 788-790 also King Northumbria. Alcmund, who during the reign Eardwulfs ( 796-810? ) Was murdered in the year 800, was supposedly a son Ealchreds.
Rule
On October 30, 765 his predecessor Æthelwald minor was deposed in Pincanheale ( Finchale in Durham ) from Witenagemot and determined Ealchred the new king. Immediately after his accession to the throne was Ealchred shape in York coins in his name.
Ealchreds marrying Osgifu in the year 768 indicates an alliance with the line Oswulfs against the family of his predecessor minor.
Ealchred maintained close links with mainland Europe. He encouraged missionary work among the Old Saxons. In the year 767 Aluberht in York was ordained a bishop of the Old Saxons. The missionary Willehad received his order for the conversion of Friesland to 770 by a council headed Ealchreds. In a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz Lul he brought 773 his desire to move closer to the Frankish Empire expressed. In the year 773 Ealchred sent an embassy to the court of Charlemagne ( 768-814 ).
To 773 broke into York from riots that may already be in connection with Ealchreds were fall. In the Easter of the year 774 Ealchred was deposed and banished from Witenagemot in York. The reasons for this are unclear: on the one hand, he apparently had problems with Archbishop Aethelberht ( 767-780 ), on the other hand, urged his successor Æthelred I, the son of his predecessor Æthelwald minor, to power. Ealchred fled to Bamburgh and then found at Ciniod mac Uuredech ( 763-775 ), king of the Picts, asylum. His life and his death year were not recorded.
Swell
- Anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Online at Project Gutenberg (English)
- Symeon of Durham: De Regum Anglorum Gestis (Acts of the English kings )