Women / Persons ~ P23619
Alfleda
Alternate Names:
- Alchflaed
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 635 CE - 714 CE
Types:
- Anglo-Saxon
- Daughter of notable man
- Model of faith, piety
- Royalty
- Ruler
- Wife of notable man
Note: daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria; m. Peada of Mercia and he converted to Christianity in order to marry her; sometimes implicated in Peada's assassination, but the biographer argues that Alfleda's "irreproachable life renders such a deed improbable"