Ruler · 759 – 788

Ælfwald I of Northumbria

Lived 759 – 788. King of Northumbria of Kingdom of Northumbria, 779 – 788.

Wikidata's English label: Ælfwald I.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 759 – 788; 29 years
In office: 9 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Northumbria
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Northumbria

Kingdom of Northumbria · the 15th of 40 dated reigns · 655 – 954

11 before

Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria759 – 765

Alhred765 – 774

Æthelred I of Northumbria774 – 779

Ælfwald I of Northumbria779 – 788

Osred II of Northumbria788 – 790

Æthelred I of Northumbria788 – 796

Osbald of Northumbria796

22 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 779 – 788 · 9 years · came to it aged 20

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide

He was murdered, probably at Chesters, by ealdorman Sicga.

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