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    Aldfrith (Early Modern Irish: Flann Fína mac Ossu; Latin: Aldfrid, Aldfridus; died 14 December 704 or 705) was king of Northumbria from 685 until his death...
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    Fina which produced the problematic Aldfrith. In his Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bede declares that Aldfrith, known as Fland among the Irish, was...
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    marriage to Aldfrith allied him with Ine, one of the most powerful kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Cuthburh was Aldfrith's only known wife. Aldfrith had at least...
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  • with the Uí Néill princess Fín of the Cenél nEógain, and the birth of Aldfrith, should be placed in the context of his exile, or took place at a later...
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  • differences, and Theodore urged the new Northumbrian king, Aldfrith, to allow Wilfrid's return. Aldfrith agreed to do so, but in 691 he expelled Wilfrid again...
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    Estuary, though a few were produced in Northumbria bearing the name of King Aldfrith (r. 685–704). The "secondary series", struck from c. 710 to c. 750, saw...
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  • Ecgfrith was buried on Iona and succeeded by his illegitimate half-brother, Aldfrith. Like his father before him, Ecgfrith supported the religious work of Benedict...
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    second cousin of King Aldfrith of Northumbria (according to Irish genealogies), which may explain his later proposal that Aldfrith should be crowned as...
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  • friendship with King Aldfrith of Northumbria. In 684, Aldfrith had been staying with Adomnán in Iona. In 686, after the death of Aldfrith's brother King Ecgfrith...
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    economy English people White Anglo-Saxon Protestant From its reference to "Aldfrith, who now reigns peacefully" it must date to between 685 and 704. Oswiu...
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