Ælfwine (Deira)

Ælfwine (also Aelfwine, Elfwine, Aelfuini, Aelfwinus, Aelwinus etc .; * around 661; † 679 ) was from 670 to 679 sub-king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Deira, which was dependent on Northumbria .

Life

England at the time Ælfwines

family

Ælfwine's father Oswiu was the son of King Æthelfrith of the Bernicia royal dynasty . His grandmother Acha came from the Deir royal family. His mother was probably Eanflæd , the third wife of his father, whom he married around 643. In addition to the half-siblings Aldfrith , Ealhfrith and Ealhflæd from his father's earlier marriages, he had the brother Ecgfrith (* 645/646) and the sisters Ælfflæd (* around 654, abbess of Whitby) and Osthryth .

Domination

Oswiu died on February 15, 670 from an illness and was in the St. Peter's Church of the Monastery Abbey Whitby buried in the Eanflæd his widow entered a nun. Ecgfrith succeeded as Upper King Northumbrias, while the nine-year-old Ælfwine ruled as subregulus in Deira.

In the mid-670s, the strained relationship with Mercia improved when Æthelred (674 / 675-704) of Mercia Osthryth married the sister of Ecgfrith and Ælfwine. Soon afterwards there were again disagreements between the two kingdoms, presumably over the possession of the Kingdom of Lindsey , which again led to war. In 679 there was a battle on the River Trent , which Æthelred was victorious. Ecgfrith had to cede Lindsey to Mercia, but received on the intervention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus , wergeld for the death of his brother Ælfwine, who, just 18 years old, had fallen in battle. After Ælfwines death Ecgfrith did not install a new sub-king in Deira, but established the final unit of Northumbria, whose southern border was again the Humber. Ælfwine was very popular and was buried in York with great public sympathy .

swell

• Beda Venerabilis : Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , Online in the Medieval Sourcebook (English)
• Eddius Stephanus: Vita Wilfridi
• anonymous: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , online in Project Gutenberg

literature

• Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 .
• Barbara Yorke : Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 . PDF (6.2 MB)
• DP Kirby, Alfred Smyth, Ann Williams (Eds.): A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain , Routledge, London-New York 1991, ISBN 978-1-85264-047-7 .
• DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 .
• JR Maddicott: Ecgfrith (645 / 6–685) (paid registration required). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved November 11, 2011

Web links

• Ælfwine 4 ( Memento from December 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Ælfwine in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Simon Keynes: Kings of the Northumbrians . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 502-505.
2. ^ Philip Holdsworth: Oswiu . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , p. 349.
3. ↑ Michelle Ziegler: The Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria ( Memento January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
4. ↑ Nicholas J. Higham: The convert kings: power and religious affiliation in early Anglo-Saxon England , Manchester University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0719048289 , p. 234.
5. ↑ ^{a b} J. R. Maddicott: Ecgfrith (645 / 6–685) ( Memento from December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (paid registration required). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Beda: HE 3.24
7. ↑ Bertram Colgrave: The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great , Cambridge University Press, 1985, ISBN 978-052131384-1 , S. 42nd
8. ↑ Beda: HE 4,5
9. ↑ Beda: HE 4-21
10. ↑ Beda: HE 4-21 ; Vita Wilfredi , c. 24
11. ^ NJ Higham, The Kingdom of Northumbria , p. 139
12. ↑ Beda: HE 4,21
13. ^ Eddius Stephanus: Vita Wilfridi , 24

predecessor	Office	successor
Ecgfrith	Sub -king of Deira 670–679	---