The Age of Æthelflæd
Æthelflæd ( c. 870 – 12 June 918) ruled as Lady of the Mercians in the English Midlands from 911 until her death in 918. She was the eldest child of Alfred ...
Aethelflaed | Queen of Mercia, Warrior, Defender - Britannica
Aethelflaed (died June 12, 918, Tamworth, England) was an Anglo-Saxon ruler of Mercia in England and the founder of Gloucester Abbey.
Annie Whitehead, award-winning author of To Be A Queen and Alvar the Kingmaker, takes up the reins with a lovely guest post, giving us a bit of background.
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians - The British Monarchy
Æthelflæd born around the year 870, was thus half-Mercian & the alliance between Wessex & Mercia was sealed by her marriage to Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians.
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians timeline - The History Press
Aethelflaed was the only Anglo-Saxon known to have commanded an army. For seven years, the forces of Mercia were led by Aethelflaed, the widow of Aethelred of ...
What is the age gap between Uhtred and Aethelflaed? - Reddit
The show starts in 866 with 11 year old U and LoM looked pretty much the same age at the end of the season (878). That makes them 12 years apart ...
I am so very excited to announce: Since last week's installment of "The Age of Æthelflæd: Anglo-Saxon Warrior Queen," it has been announced ...
Æthelflæd (Wessex) of Mercia (abt.0870-0918) - WikiTree
Æthelflæd was the daughter of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith. ... Her birth date is uncertain but may have been about 870 or soon after.
Æthelflæd (Aethelflaed), Lady of the Mercians - Historic UK
The story of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians and one of the most powerful women to have lived during the Dark Ages. We also look at the role ...
Æthelflæd | The Last Kingdom Wiki - Fandom
Æthelflæd was born c.870 and died in 918, at roughly 48 years of age. In the books, however, she was born in 871. These are her ages throughout ...
Aethelflaed, Lady of Mercia: The Anglo-Saxons' Only Queen
At the age of only 48, Aethelflaed died on 12 June 918 CE, possibly of a stroke, at Tamworth in her adopted homeland of Mercia. Her funereal ...
Sadly, Æthelflæd died in 918 just before she could receive the submission of York and it was not fully subdued by the West Saxons until the 950s ...
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians - The Historic England Blog
Explore the life and work of Aethelflaed, 'Lady of the Mercians'; an Anglo-Saxon ruler who built forts and towns and led armies against the ...
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, ...
Æthelflæd of Wessex was born around 870, the oldest child of King Alfred the Great and his Mercian wife, Ealhswith, who was a daughter of ...
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.
After Æthelred's death in 911, Æthelflæd ruled on her own, leading her army on a series of campaigns to recapture lost territory. Known to ...
Aethelflaed: The Heroine of Mercia - Allison's History Blog
Around 886, Aethelflaed married Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians. She would have been about sixteen years old while Aethelred was about ten years ...
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 ...
Æthelflæd, Lady of Mercia - Sagas from the Sea
England in the 9th Century On 12th June 918, Athelflaed, Lady of Mercia, died in Tamworth, in the heart of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia ...
Æthelred the Unready
King of EnglandÆthelred II, known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016.