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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- son of Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia and grandson of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. He succeeded to his father's title and responsibilities on Ælfgār's death in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- child. He appears to have ****isted Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia in their struggles against Wes****, although his primary...