Ealchred

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England in the time of Ealchred
Coin issued jointly by Ealchred and Archbishop Ecgberht (765)
Sceat (silver coin) Ealchreds

Ealchred (also Alhred, Alcred, Alchred, Alachrat, Aluchred ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria from 765 to 774 .

Life

family

Ealchred was a son of Eanwines. There is an ancestral list that traces Ealchred's lineage back to Ida von Bernicia (547–559 / 560) and his son Eadric, but this genealogy is probably fictional.

Ealchred married Osgifu, who was either the daughter of Oswulf (758-759) or of Eadberht (737-758). As a result, he was related by marriage to Archbishop Ecgbert of York. Osred II , the son of Ealchred and Osgifus, was also King of Northumbria from 788 to 790. Alcmund , who was murdered in 800 during the reign of Eardwulf (796-810?), Was allegedly a son of Ealchred.

Domination

On October 30, 765 his predecessor Æthelwald Moll in Pincanheale (Finchale near Durham ) was deposed by the Witenagemot and Ealchred was appointed the new king. Immediately after his accession to the throne, Ealchred had coins minted in his name in York.

Ealchred's marriage to Osgifu in 768 suggests an alliance with the lineage of Oswulf against the family of his predecessor Moll.

Ealchred had close ties with mainland Europe. He promoted the missionary work of the Old Saxons . In 767 Aluberht in York was ordained Bishop of the Old Saxons. The missionary Willehad received his commission to convert Friesland around 770 from a council under the direction of Ealchred. In a letter to Archbishop Lul of Mainz in 773, he expressed his wish for rapprochement with the Frankish Empire . In 773 Ealchred sent an embassy to the court of Charlemagne (768–814).

Riots broke out in York around 773, possibly already connected with Ealchred's fall. At the Easter time of the year 774 Ealchred was deposed and banished by the Witenagemot in York. The reasons for this are unclear: on the one hand, he apparently had problems with Archbishop Æthelberht (767-780), on the other hand, his successor Æthelred I , the son of his predecessor Æthelwald Moll, pushed to power. Ealchred first fled to Bamburgh and then found asylum with Ciniod mac Uuredech (763–775), King of the Picts . His further life and the year of his death have not been recorded.

swell

Wikisource: en: Ecclesiastical History of the English People / Continuation  - Sources and full texts (English)

literature

  • 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: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 .
  • James Earle Fraser: From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 (New Edinburgh history of Scotland, Volume 1) , Edinburgh University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7486-1232-1 .
  • David W. Rollason: Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom . Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81335-8 .
  • John Marsden: Northanhymbre Saga: The History of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of Northumbria. London: Cathie, 1992. ISBN 1-85626-055-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ealchred  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simon Keynes: Kings of Northumbria . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 , pp. 502-505.
  2. ^ Anglian Collection
  3. ↑ a b c d e D. P. Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , p. 127.
  4. ↑ see: Alex Woolf : From Pictland to Alba: 789-1070 Volume 2. Edinburgh University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7486-1234-5 , p. 42; DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings , Routledge, London-New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0 , p. 125
  5. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 738
  6. ↑ David W. Rollason: Osred II  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.oxforddnb.com   (paid registration required). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2011
  7. ↑ Symeon of Durham: De Gestis Regum Anglorum for the year 800
  8. ^ A b Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 95.
  9. ^ Barbara Yorke: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 , p. 172.
  10. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 774
  11. ^ Symeon of Durham: De Gestis Regum Anglorum for the year 774
  12. ↑ James Earle Fraser: From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 (New Edinburgh history of Scotland, Volume 1) , Edinburgh University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7486-1232-1 , p. 332.
predecessor Office successor
Æthelwald minor King of Northumbria
765-774 		Æthelred I.
personal data
SURNAME Ealchred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alhred; Alcred; Alchred; Alachrat; Aluchred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria (765-774)
DATE OF BIRTH before 765
DATE OF DEATH after 774