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Ælfgar is an Anglo-Saxon
masculine personal name, from ælf "elf" and gar "spear", that may
refer to:
Ælfgar of
Lichfield (died c. 947),
bishop of Lichfield...
- 1057–1066), also
Aldgyth or
Edith in
modern English, was a
daughter of
Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, the wife of
Gruffudd ap
Llywelyn (d. 1063),
ruler of all...
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Ælfgar (died c. 1062) was the son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, by his
famous wife
Godgifu (Lady Godiva). He
succeeded to his father's
title and responsibilities...
- height, but in 1055 Leofric's own son
Ælfgar was outlawed, "without any fault", says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Ælfgar raised an army in
Ireland and Wales...
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Rhydderch in
battle and
recaptured Deheubarth.
Gruffydd allied himself with
Ælfgar, son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who had been
deprived of his
earldom of...
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Ælfgar (Algar),
according to 16th-century
antiquarian John Leland, was a
saint venerated at a
chapel in the
forest of Selwood,
three miles from
Mells (near...
- English: Mōrcǣr, Old Norse: Mǫrukári) (died
after 1087) was the son of
Ælfgār (earl of Mercia) and
brother of Ēadwine. He was the earl of Northumbria...
- child. He
appears to have ****isted
Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap
Llywelyn and
Ælfgar, Earl of
Mercia in
their struggles against Wes****,
although his primary...
- name Ælfgifu upon her
marriage to Æthelred the
Unready Ælfgifu, wife of
Ælfgar, Earl of
Mercia Ælfgifu,
daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wes****, and sister...
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Ælfgar was a
medieval Bishop of Elmham.
Ælfgar was
consecrated in 1001 and
resigned the see
between 1012 and 1016. He died on 24 or 25
December 1021. Fryde...
