When Ethelreda of Northumbria was born in 1068, in Raby, Durham, England, United Kingdom, her father, Earl Gospatric I Of Northumberland, was 28 and her mother, Æthelreda of Dunbar, was 26. Leofdegn's special issue. Notes 1 - In the 969th year after the birth of Our Lord, in the reign of Ethelred, King of the English; Malcolm, king of the Scots, son of King Kenneth, having gathered the army of all Scotland, devastated the province of the Northumbrians by fire and slaughter. Spink 865. Ethelred, King of the Northumbrians, was expelled from the Kingdom and Redwulf succeeded to the Kingdom; and when hastily invested with the crown, he fought a battle with the Pagans (Vikings) at Elvet (Durham), he and Ealdorman Alfred fell with a large part of their subjects and then Ethelred ruled again." 13mm. She married Duncan II King of Scotland about 1090, in Scotland. Malcolm however lived. + AEdELREd REX around hammer cross on saltire inside circle. In 1006 Malcolm II, King of Scots launched an invasion of Northumbria and laid siege to Durham. Uhtred's father, Ealdorman Waltheof was too old and frail to fight and remained at Bamburgh Castle. The eldest child of the King Alfred of Wessex, Æthelflæd was thought to have been a strong, independent and well educated lady. …he and his brother, King Aethelred (Ethelred) I, went to help Burgred of Mercia (the kingdom between the Thames and the Humber) against a great Danish army that had landed in East Anglia in 865 and taken possession of Northumbria in 867. As a reward for his actions, Uhtred was appointed ealdorman of Northumbria by King Ethelred in 1007, while his father still lived. WS 7816: Ae Styca. Spink # 866. They were the parents of at least 1 son. 382. Marriage: (2): PRINCESS-OF-ENGLAND, Elfgifu (Daughter-Ethelred) Abt 1010, England Died: 1016, Killed about age 45 Another name for Uchtred was EARL-OF-NORTHUMBRIA, Uchtred. Text: Image: Spink 868 Earduulf: Aethelred II of Northumbria, 2nd Reign 844-850 AD, brass Styca. Aethelred II of Northumbria, 1st Reign 841-844 AD, AE Styca. Ethelred succeeded his brother Ethelbert in 866 to a land that was being ravaged mercilessly by the full fury of savage Viking onslaughts. Uhtred then succeed Aelfhelm as ealdorman of York, uniting northern and southern Northumbria. Pirie Obv. ® + LEODEGN (Leofdegn) around rosette inside double circle. See Pirie, Coins of the Kingdom of Northumbria No 225 for similar. During her early years, Æthelflæd witnessed her father take back large swathes of England from the Vikings (Danes), starting with the famous battle of Edington in Wiltshire, a key turning point in the Anglo-Saxon campaign against the Vikings. EDFLRED REX around central cross / Moneyer's name DIHTRED around central cross. Phase II Group Aii, moneyer Wihtred. The Saxon king, Ethelred II, known as 'the Redeless' and a weak and ineffectual ruler was unable to send aid to his Northumbrian subjects. Ethelred I was born around 834 and like his father Ethelwulf, was a man of great piety, nd had been brought up very religiously by his mother, Queen Osburh. Uhtred the Bold was an ealdorman of all Northumbria from 1006 to 1016. 377/Rev. The Danes refused to give battle, and peace… In the mean time, Ethelred had had Ealdorman Ælfhelm of York murdered, and he allowed Uhtred to succeed Ælfhelm as ealdorman of York, thus uniting northern and souther Northumbria under the house of Bamburgh. In 1016 Uhtred campaigned with Ethelred's son Edmund Ironside in Cheshire and the surrounding shires. 13mm. Aelfhelm of York, who had taken no action during the siege, was murdered on the king’s orders. 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