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colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/King_of_Deira" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Deira">King of Deira</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">655–664 AD</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwold_of_Deira" class="mw-redirect" title="Æthelwold of Deira">Æthelwold</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ecgfrith_of_Northumbria" title="Ecgfrith of Northumbria">Ecgfrith</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">c. 630</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">c. 664</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consort</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cyneburh" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyneburh">Cyneburh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rumwold_of_Buckingham" class="mw-redirect" title="Rumwold of Buckingham">Rumwold</a>?</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oswiu_of_Northumbria" class="mw-redirect" title="Oswiu of Northumbria">Oswiu</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rhiainfellt" title="Rhiainfellt">Rieinmelth</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alhfrith</b> or <b>Ealhfrith</b> (c. 630 – c. 664) was <a href="/wiki/King_of_Deira" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Deira">King of Deira</a> under his father <a href="/wiki/Oswiu" title="Oswiu">Oswiu</a>, <a href="/wiki/King_of_Bernicia" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Bernicia">King of Bernicia</a>, from 655 until sometime after 664. Appointed by Oswiu as a subordinate ruler, Alhfrith apparently clashed with his father over religious policy, which came to a head at the <a href="/wiki/Synod_of_Whitby" title="Synod of Whitby">Synod of Whitby</a> in 664. After this, Alhfrith disappears from the historical record. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alhfrith&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alhfrith was the oldest son of <a href="/wiki/Oswiu" title="Oswiu">Oswiu</a>, who became <a href="/wiki/King_of_Bernicia" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Bernicia">King of Bernicia</a> in 642. His mother was Oswiu's first wife, <a href="/wiki/Rhiainfellt" title="Rhiainfellt">Rieinmelth</a>, granddaughter of king <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhun_of_Rheged&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rhun of Rheged (page does not exist)">Rhun</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rheged" title="Rheged">Rheged</a>; the marriage also produced a daughter, <a href="/wiki/Alhfl%C3%A6d" class="mw-redirect" title="Alhflæd">Alhflaed</a>. Both children were likely born in the 630s.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early 650s, when Alhfrith was a young man, Oswiu had him married to <a href="/wiki/Cyneburh" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyneburh">Cyneburh</a>, daughter of Oswiu's great rival <a href="/wiki/Penda_of_Mercia" title="Penda of Mercia">Penda of Mercia</a>. Shortly after, Alhflaed married Penda's son <a href="/wiki/Peada_of_Mercia" title="Peada of Mercia">Peada</a>. Alhflaed, a devout Christian, urged Peada to convert.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Relations between Oswiu and Penda remained contentious, and Penda invaded Bernicia with a large army in 655.<sup id="cite_ref-Kirby81_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirby81-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of Penda's allies was <a href="/wiki/%C5%92thelwald_of_Deira" title="Œthelwald of Deira">Œthelwald</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Deira" title="Deira">Deira</a> and Oswiu's nephew; Oswiu considered Deira part of his realm and Œthelwald his sub-king, but resistance to his rule continued throughout his reign.<sup id="cite_ref-Yorke_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yorke-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alhfrith served in his father's significantly smaller army as they pursued Penda. Their forces caught Penda's at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Winwaed" title="Battle of the Winwaed">Battle of the Winwaed</a>; Œthelwald and others withdrew their troops at a critical moment, which contributed to Oswiu winning a decisive victory in which Penda was killed.<sup id="cite_ref-Yorke_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yorke-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kirby81_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirby81-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The victory enabled Oswiu to re-establish his control over Deira. He evidently removed Œthelwald and installed Alhfrith as under-king (a largely autonomous ruler) owing homage to him.<sup id="cite_ref-Yorke_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yorke-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Deiran resistance to Oswiu's rule continued under Alhfrith, who might have tried to use it to assert his independence.<sup id="cite_ref-Yorke_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yorke-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alhfrith initially followed his father in adhering to <a href="/wiki/Celtic_Christianity" title="Celtic Christianity">Celtic Christianity</a>, which practised certain customs at odds with those endorsed by the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Canterbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Canterbury">Bishop of Canterbury</a> and Continental Europe. However, he soon began challenging his father's policies of preferring the Celtic practices. Around 658, Alhfrith's ally <a href="/wiki/Cenwalh" class="mw-redirect" title="Cenwalh">Cenwalh</a> introduced him to <a href="/wiki/Wilfrid" title="Wilfrid">Wilfrid</a>, a Northumbrian churchman who had studied in Europe and strongly advocated the Roman customs. Subsequently, he began openly challenging the Celtic customs and his father's policies.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 664, Oswiu convened the <a href="/wiki/Synod_of_Whitby" title="Synod of Whitby">Synod of Whitby</a> to determine which form of Christianity Northumbria would follow; Alhfrith served as a key proponent of Wilfrid and the Roman system, which ultimately prevailed.<sup id="cite_ref-Yorke_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yorke-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alhfrith requested that Wilfrid be made bishop for Deira, most likely with a see at <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_York" title="Archbishop of York">York</a>. Apparently with Oswiu's consent, Wilfrid travelled to Gaul to be consecrated, as he did not consider any bishops in Great Britain or Ireland to be validly consecrated; he did not return until around 666. In the mid-660s, Alhfrith requested to go on pilgrimage to Rome with <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Biscop" title="Benedict Biscop">Benedict Biscop</a>, which Oswiu forbade. Alhfrith subsequently vanishes from the historical record. In the <i><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_History_of_the_English_People" title="Ecclesiastical History of the English People">Ecclesiastical History of the English People</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Bede" title="Bede">Bede</a> mentions that Alhfrith "attacked" his father. David Kirby suggests that Alhfrith may have participated and died in a rebellion against Oswiu, perhaps inspired by their continuing religious differences, Alhfrith's anxieties about the rise of his half-brother <a href="/wiki/Ecgfrith_of_Northumbria" title="Ecgfrith of Northumbria">Ecgfrith</a>, or Oswiu's military aspirations to the north that shifted focus away from Deira in the south.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to later tradition, Oswiu replaced Alhfrith as King of Deira with his brother Ecgfrith, who subsequently became king of Bernicia and installed another brother, <a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwine_of_Deira" title="Ælfwine of Deira">Ælfwine</a>, in Deira.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is not clear if Alhfrith had children; it is possible that the later Northumbrian king <a href="/wiki/Osric_of_Northumbria" title="Osric of Northumbria">Osric</a> was his son, though he might instead have been the son of <a href="/wiki/Aldfrith_of_Northumbria" title="Aldfrith of Northumbria">Aldfrith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alhfrith&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Yorke, <i>Kings and Kingdoms</i>, p. 82.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, <i>The Earliest English Kings</i>, p. 79.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kirby81-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Kirby81_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kirby81_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, <i>The Earliest English Kings</i>, p. 81.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Yorke-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Yorke_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Yorke_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Yorke_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Yorke_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Yorke_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Yorke, <i>Kings and Kingdoms</i>, p. 79.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, <i>The Earliest English Kings</i>, p. 81, 87.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, <i>The Earliest English Kings</i>, p. 87.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, <i>The Earliest English Kings</i>, pp. 88–89.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, <i>The Earliest English Kings</i>, p. 8, 81, 89.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirby, <i>The Earliest English Kings</i>, pp. 92, 123.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alhfrith&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Kirby, David P., <i>The Earliest English Kings.</i> London: Unwin Hyman, 1991. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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