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Ealdred

Archbishop of York. 1000 to 1069.

What is known, and how well

Fact	Value	Certainty
Birth	1000	Year
Death	1069	Year
Parents	Not recorded
House	The English church
Realm	England
How sure we are	High	Of this record as a whole

In brief

Archbishop of York from 1061. He crowned Harold in January 1066 and William at Westminster in December, and died in 1069.

Events

25 October 1066
London chooses Edgar
With Harold dead, Archbishop Ealdred and the citizens of London name the boy of the old house as king.
With Edgar, Ealdred, Eadwine, Morcar, Stigand
10 December 1066
Edgar submits at Berkhamsted
William crosses the Thames at Wallingford and the English leaders come out to meet him.
With William, Edgar, Stigand, Ealdred, Eadwine, Morcar

What is uncertain

Parentage is not recorded here.

Sources

Where this is recorded

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Avalon Project)
William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi, ed. R. H. C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall, Oxford Medieval Texts, 1998
The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester, trans. Thomas Forester

Named in the record

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Reference works

Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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