Maldred

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1050

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Uchtred fitz Maldred was born between 1075 and 1080 in of Raby, Durham, England; died in 1129.

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Also called Aldred; Maldred MacCrinan.

According to The Scots Peerage (citation details below), he was probably killed in the same battle as his father Crinan, attempting to avenge the murder of his brother Duncan by Macbeth.

The Henry Project calls Maldred a "probable" child of the Crinan who married Bethoc, daughter of Malcolm II, King of Scotland (this Crinan and Bethoc being the parents of the Scots king Duncan I), but THP also notes that there is no direct evidence that Bethoc was Maldred's mother.

From The Henry Project:

Maldred is given as a son of a Crinán in three of the works of Simeon of Durham, with Crínán given the title of "thane" (tein) in one of these works. Maldred married Ealdgyth, daughter of Uhtred, earl of Northumbria, by whom he Dolphin, Waltheof, and Cospatric (ancestor of the House of Dunbar) ["Postea vero illo, scilicet Ucthredo, proficiente magis et magis in re militari, rex Ethelredus filiam suam Elfgivam ei copulavit uxorem. Ex qua habuit filiam Aldgitham, quam pater in conjugium dedit Maldredo filio Crinan tein, ex qua Maldredus Cospatricum, patrem Dolphini et Walteofi, et Cospatrici." Sim. Durh., De Obsessione Dunelmi, c. 2 (1: 216); "... Cospatricus, filius Maldredi filii Crinani ... Erat enim ex matre Algitha, filia Uchtredi comitis, quam habuit ex Algiva filia Agelredi Regis. Hanc Algitham pater dedit in conjugium Maldredo filio Crinani." Sim. Durh., Historia Regum, c. 159 (2: 199); "Deinde Uctredus filius Walthefi administravit comitatum omnium Northanhymbrorum provinciarum. Huic rex Eathelredus suam filiam Ælfgeovam dederat uxorem. Ex qua filiam habens Aldgitham, dedit in conjugium prædiviti cuidam, Maldredo filio Crinani: de qua habuit Cospatricum comitem, patrem Dolphini, Walthefi, et Cospatrici." Sim. Durh., De Primo Saxonum Adventu (2: 383)]. Anderson states that Maldred appears to have ruled in Cumbria [ESSH 1: 577], but there does not seem to be a clear source for that statement [however, see ESSH 2: 37 for the possible Cumbrian origin of Maldred's son Cospatric I]. No primary source explicitly identifies the Crínán who was Maldred's father with the Crínán who was Duncan's father.

[Key to abbreviations in the above:]

Sim. Durh. = Thomas Arnold, ed., Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, 2 vols. (Rolls Series 75, 1882-5.)

ESSH = Alan Orr Anderson, Early Sources of Scottish History, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1922, reprinted Stamford, 1990). [Contains English translations of many of the primary records.]

Maldred married Ealdgyth of Northumbria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Aeldgyth; Ealdgith; Algitha; Edith.

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Earl of Northumbria. On his way to a meeting with king Cnut, Uchtred and forty of his men were slain by a force led by Northumbrian magnate Thurbrand the Hold, supposedly with assistance of Uchtred's servant Wighill and with the connivance of Cnut. This either set off, or was the first recorded act of, a Northumbrian blood feud that lasted several decades.

Uchtred married Ælfgifu about 1014. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Elgiva, Algiva.

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Ealdorman of Northumbria.

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"The Redeless"; "Unraed" (Ill-counseled).

Æthelred married Ælfgifu, Queen Consort of England in 985. Ælfgifu (daughter of Thored) was born about 970; died about 1002. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 970
• Alternate death: Abt 1002

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Ealdorman of Northumbria.

"Ealdred was probably the father of Oswulf, who later ruled in Northumbria under King Eadred (d. 955). Oswulf engineered the downfall of Erik Bloodaxe (d. 954), the last king of an independent Northumbria, so that the kingdom could be annexed by Eadred. Oswulf was a witness to several royal charters where he is identified as 'high-reeve of Bamburgh'." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Eadgar married Ælfthryth, Queen Consort of England. Ælfthryth (daughter of Ordgar) died between 999 and 1002. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alfrida; Elfrida; Elfthryth.

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Ealdorman of York.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 933

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Ealdorman of Northumbria; lord of Bamburgh. "He was the most important Anglo-Saxon in Northumbria during the early tenth century, a time of renewed viking activity, and the last representative of an independent Anglo-Saxon royal family in the north. His father, Eadulf, is styled king of the north Saxons by the tenth-century record embedded in the Irish annals of Ulster, while the contemporary Historia de sancto Cuthberto describes him as princeps. Ealdred, like his father before him, was prominent in efforts to unite Northumbria with the other English-ruled regions; the Historia de sancto Cuthberto claims that he was as beloved by Edward the Elder as his father had been by Alfred the Great." [ODNB]

Eadmund married St. Alfgifu of Shaftesbury, Queen Consort of England. Alfgifu (daughter of Wynflaed) died about 944. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ealdorman of Devon.