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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. He is described by early writers such as Bede , Alcuin and Stephen of Ripon as a man of great learning.
Aldfrith (auch Aldfrid, Aldfrið, Aldferþ, Alfrið, Aelfrid, Alchfrit, Alhfrithus, Arcircius, Ealdferth, Ealdferð, Ealdferþ, Flann Fína, Flainn Fína maic Ossu; * vor 634; † 14. Dezember 705 ) war in den Jahren 686 bis 705 König des angelsächsischen Königreiches Northumbria .
Aldfrith (died Dec. 14, 704, Driffield, Eng.) was the king of Northumbria (685–704) and patron of literature. An illegitimate son of Oswiu and the Irish princess Fína, he succeeded to the throne when his brother Ecgfrith was killed at the Battle of Nechtansmere.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aldfrith's rule ushered in a period of cultural florescence in Northumbria that saw the first hagiography and earliest illuminated manuscripts produced in Anglo-Saxon England and that culminated in the extensive library authored by Bede (d. 735).
The superior learning of King Aldfrith of Northumbria (685-704), of Oswiu, was acknowledged in both Anglo-Saxon and Gaelic sources by such renowned scholars as Bede of Wearmouth-Jarrow, Aldhelm of. Malmesbury, Stephen of Ripon, Alcuin of York, and Adomnân of Iona.1. The source of his education was Gaelic.
Breen, Aidan. Aldfrith (d. 705), king of Northumbria, son of Oswiu of Northumbria and an Irish princess of the Cenél nÉogain, was brought up in Ireland, where he spent many years in study. When his half-brother Ecgfrith died suddenly (685), he was brought to the throne of Northumbria with the assistance of his half-sister Ælfflaed, abbess of ...
Alfred von Northumberland englischer Name: Aldfrith irischer Name: Flann Fína mac Ossu auch: Aldfrid, Aldfrið, Aelfrid, Alchfrit, Ealdferth, Flann Fína
