Aethelflaed
Æthelflæd ... This article is about the Lady of the Mercians. For other people called Æthelflæd, see Æthelflæd (name). Æthelflæd ( c. 870 – 12 June 918) ruled as ...
Aethelflaed | Queen of Mercia, Warrior, Defender - Britannica
Aethelflaed was an Anglo-Saxon ruler of Mercia in England and the founder of Gloucester Abbey. The eldest child of King Alfred the Great, she helped her ...
Æthelflæd | The Last Kingdom Wiki - Fandom
Æthelflæd of Mercia (before, Æthelflæd of Wessex) is a main character in both The Saxon Stories novel series and The Last Kingdom television series, being a ...
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians - The British Monarchy
On her husband's death in 911, Æthelflæd became Myrcna hlædige, "Lady of the Mercians". Ian Walker describes her succession as the only case of a female ruler ...
Aethelflaed: History and Legend - BYU ScholarsArchive
Unlike the West-Saxon chronicles, Aethelflaed is not paired in an obligatory fashion to the men in her life. She is not Aethelflaed, daughter of Alfred, sister ...
Aethelflaed | Award-Winning Heritage in a Stunning Castle
Aethelflaed is a key figure in the history and making of England. She ruled Mercia with her husband Aethelred (also known as Ethelred) and together they led ...
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians Timeline
Aethelflaed (r. 911-918 CE) was the daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex (r. 871-899 CE) and became queen of Mercia following the death of her husband ...
Aethelflaed - History… the interesting bits!
An utterly ferocious and gripping adventure, covering the fascinating middle years of Alfred the Great's reign, one of Britain's most influential monarchs.
Aethelflaed, Lady Of The Mercians: The Last Kingdom's Warrior Queen
She is a medieval marvel, but – as the daughter of Alfred the Great, and ultimately succeeded by her nephew Æthelstan – Æthelflæd has been ...
Æthelflæd (Aethelflaed), Lady of the Mercians - Historic UK
Unfortunately this was one of many battles in which Æthelred was not involved. He had been ill since around 902, and after ten years of battling ...
A Woman as King? The Secret Legacy of Æthelflæd, Lady of the ...
Amid Viking wars an Anglo-Saxon princess blazed a new trail for possible female kingship, but after her death was brutally, ...
Aethelflaed: The warrior queen who broke the glass ceiling - BBC
Aethelflaed, a warrior ruler almost lost to history, is being celebrated on the 1100th anniversary of her death.
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians - The Historic England Blog
Aethelflaed co-witnesses charters- grants of land or foundations of churches and helps her husband govern. As well as establishing churches, her ...
Æthelflæd & Uhtred : r/TheLastKingdom - Reddit
When Uhtred is about to be made Lord of Mercia but relinquishes the throne to Æthelflæd. Instead, the Ealdormen are reluctant to accept a woman.
Æthelflæd: Lady of the Mercians - YouTube
Æthelflæd (c. 870-918) is one of the most remarkable women in medieval Britain, but the fragmentary records of her career are a striking ...
Who Was Aethelflaed? | The Lady of the Mercians - Twinkl
Aethelflaed, the Warrior Queen. Aethelflaed was renowned for her military strength. She worked to extend and improve the fortifications that her father had ...
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians - History… the interesting bits!
Recognising her vital role in the creation of England, the 12th century Henry of Huntingdon declared Æthelflæd 'to have been so powerful that in ...
Aethelflaed, Saxons, Danes, and The Last Kingdom
It is set in Britain in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, when Alfred the Great* (and his adult children) defended their kingdoms against Norse ...
This portrait of Æthelflæd, from The Cartulary and Customs of Abingdon Abbey, c. 1220, obviously dates from much later than her lifetime, but a ...
Æthelred and Æthelflæd of Mercia: Medieval England's most ...
This marriage displayed unity between the two men and Mercia and Wessex, now united to protect themselves from the Viking threat to the east.
Æthelflæd
QueenÆthelflæd ruled as Lady of the Mercians in the English Midlands from 911 until her death in 918. She was the eldest child of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.