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Alhred or
Alchred was king of
Northumbria from
765 to
774. He had married Osgifu, either the daughter of
Oswulf, granddaughter of
Eadberht Eating, or Eadberht's daughter, and was thus related by marriage to
Ecgbert, Archbishop of York. A genealogy survives which makes Alhred a descendant of
Ida of Bernicia through a son named Eadric.
Æthelwald Moll was deposed in
765 and Alhred became king. Little is said of his reign in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle other than the bare facts that he became king, and was then deposed and exiled in
774.
Symeon of Durham's
Historia Regum Anglorum reports that he fled to the kingdom of the
Picts, where he was received by King
Ciniod.
Frank Stenton notes Ahlred's connection to the English missions on the continent. The mission of
Saint Willehad, which led to the founding of the
Archbishopric of Bremen, was authorised by a religious assembly called by Alhred. A letter from Alhred to
Saint Lull,
Archbishop of Mainz, a native of
Wessex, also survives.
He was succeeded by
Æthelred, son of Æthelwald Moll. Alhred's son
Osred would later be king. A second son,
Alhmund would be killed in the reign of
Eardwulf and develop a cult as Alcmund of Derby.
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