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Wulfrun. Wulfrun (a) ( c. 935 - c. 1005 [1]) was a Mercian noblewoman and landowner who held estates in Staffordshire . Today she is particularly remembered for her association with Hēatūn, Anglo-Saxon for "high or principal farm or enclosure", which she was granted in a charter by King Æthelred II (Æthelred the Unready) in 985 ...
Wulfruna established a manor house in the Gorsebrook area of the town. The spot known as Wulfruna's Well is supposed to be a reference to a spring which ran past the manor house. But some historians feel that the spring was probably mythical and the present monument on the site is a Victorian drinking fountain. Wulfruna's town developed as a market centre and in 994 she in turn granted land at ...
Unveiled: November 1974. Lady Wulfruna (d.after 994) was an Anglo-Saxon noble woman and landowner with several estates in Staffordshire. She was granted a charter for Hēatūn, Anglo-Saxon for ‘high or prinicpal farm of enclosure’ by Aethelred II (Aethelred the Unready) in 985.
Lady Wulfruna, or Wulfrun to use the correct Anglo-Saxon pronunciation of her name, is believed to have been the grand-daughter of King Ethelred I and Queen Aethelflaed (daughter of King Alfred the Great). The earliest reference to Wulfrun is in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for 943AD.
The Lady Wulfrun (a) is noted as having endowed the Collegiate church of Wolverhampton with a Dean and Prebendaries, AD 994, giving her name to the town: Wulfrun's Heantun (High town). Location. West Midlands Wolverhampton. Period. Victorian (1837 - 1901) Tags. memorial remembrance religion faith Victorian (1837 - 1901)
Lady Wulfruna. In AD 985 King Ethelred grantged a land charter to Lady Wulfruna. With this grant the Saxon settlement that had been on the site since the 7th century became known as "Wulfrun Heantun". "Heantun" is a Saxon word meaning settlement and many old English towns with names ending in "hampton" were originally Saxon settlements or ...
Whilst there is a tradition that King Wulfhere of Mercia was involved in its beginnings, Charter evidence reveals that an earlier Church was re-founded as a Minster in AD 994 by Lady Wulfrun (the Latin form is Wulfruna), who was believed to have been the grand-daughter of King Aethelred I and Queen Aethelflaed (daughter of King Alfred the Great).
