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Aldfrith was a close friend of Adomnán, Abbot of Iona from 679, and may have studied with him.
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Saint Cuthbert was possibly a second cousin of King Aldfrith of Northumbria ( according to Irish genealogies ), which may have been the reason for his later proposal that Aldfrith should be crowned as monarch.
The Irish princess Fín was the mother of Aldfrith ( died 705 ).
Aldhelm was the first Anglo-Saxon, so far as we know, to write in Latin verse, and his letter to Acircius ( Aldfrith or Eadfrith, king of Northumbria ) is a treatise on Latin prosody for the use of his countrymen.
He was succeeded by his illegitimate half-brother, Aldfrith.
Cuthburh was married to King Aldfrith of Northumbria, and Ine himself was married to Æthelburg.
It is situated next to Little Driffield, where King Aldfrith of Northumbria was reputedly buried, and is also very close to Nafferton, Hutton Cranswick and Wansford.
Aldfrith ( died 14 December 704 or 705 ) sometimes Aldfrid, Aldfridus ( Latin ), or Flann Fína mac Ossu ( Classical Irish ), was king of Northumbria from 685 until his death.
Aldfrith was born on an uncertain date to Oswiu of Northumbria and an Irish princess named Fín.
Aldfrith was educated for a career in the church and became a scholar.
However, in 685, when Ecgfrith was killed at the battle of Nechtansmere, Aldfrith was recalled to Northumbria, reportedly from the Hebridean island of Iona, and became king.
Aldfrith was a child of this marriage, but his date of birth is unrecorded.
Saint Cuthbert was a second cousin of Aldfrith ( according to Irish genealogies ), which may have been the reason for his proposal as monarch.
It has also been suggested that Aldfrith's ascent was eased by support from Dál Riata, the Uí Néill, and the Picts, all of whom might have preferred the mature, known quantity of Aldfrith to an unknown and more warlike monarch, such as Ecgfrith or Oswiu had been.
The historian Herman Moisl, for example, wrote that " Aldfrith was in Iona in the year preceding the battle Nechtansmere ; immediately afterwards, he was king of Northumbria.
In 702 or 703, Aldfrith convened a council at Austerfield, on the southern border of Northumbria, which was attended by Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury, and many bishops.
Aldfrith was married to Cuthburh, sister of King Ine of Wessex ; the marriage thus allied Aldfrith with one of the most powerful kings in Anglo-Saxon England.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Aldfrith and Cuthburh separated, and Cuthburh established an abbey at Wimborne Minster where she was abbess.
At least two sons were born to Aldfrith, but whether Cuthburh was their mother is unrecorded.
The 13th-century discovery of a tomb thought to be that of St Osana has led to the suggestion that Osana was the daughter of Aldfrith, although this view is not widely held by modern historians.
Aldfrith and Adomnán
In the 680s Aldfrith twice met with Adomnán, who came to seek the release of the Irish captives taken in Berht's expedition of 684.
These were released and Adomnán presented Aldfrith with a copy of his treatise De Locis Sanctis (" On the Holy Places "), a description of the places of pilgrimage in the Holy Land, and at Alexandria and Constantinople.
Aldfrith and Abbot
Aldfrith also owned a manuscript on cosmography, which ( according to Bede ) he purchased from Abbot Ceolfrith of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow in exchange for an estate valued at eight hides.
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The peaceful reign of Aldfrith, Ecgfrith's half-brother and successor, did something to limit the damage done, but it is from this point that Northumbria's power began to decline, and chronic instability followed Aldfrith's death in 704.
The first West Saxon nunneries were founded in Ine's reign by Ine's kinswoman, Bugga, the daughter of King Centwine, and by Ine's sister Cuthburh, who founded the abbey of Wimborne at some point after she separated from her husband, King Aldfrith of Northumbria.
Bede described Aldfrith as a scholar, and his interest in learning distinguishes him from the earlier Anglo-Saxon warrior kings, such as Penda.
When Wilfrid returned from exile the reconciliation with Aldfrith did not include Aldfrith's support for Wilfrid's attempts to recover his episcopal authority over the whole of the north.
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The raid may have been intended to discourage support for any claim Aldfrith might have to the throne, though other motives are possible.
An Anglo-Saxon account of the accession ceremony of Aldfrith of Northumbria involved whelk-dyed cloth, although this may simply be a poetic echo of Roman ceremonies.
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Aldfrith appears to have had the support of leading ecclesiastics, most notably his half-sister Ælfflæd and the highly respected Bishop Cuthbert.
Aldfrith was said to have been ill for some time before his death, dying on 14 December 704 or 705.
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Whether Oswiu's marriage with the Uí Néill princess Fín of the Cenél nEógain, and the birth of Aldfrith, should be placed in the context of his exile, or took place at a later date is uncertain.
The Pope provided him with letters to Aldfrith ordering that Wilfrid be restored to his offices.
The reports of Aldfrith's death in the Irish annals call him Aldfrith son of Oswiu, but some of these are glossed by later scribes with the name Flann Fína mac Ossu.
A collection of wisdom literature attributed to Flann Fína, the Briathra Flainn Fhina Maic Ossu, has survived, though the text is not contemporary with Aldfrith as it is in Middle Irish, a form of Irish not in use until the 10th century.
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According to Stephen of Ripon, King Aldfrith offered to use his army to pressure Wilfred into accepting the decision, but the bishops reminded him that he had promised Wilfred safe-conduct.
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* Epistola ad Acircium ( sive Liber de septenario, et de metris, aenigmatibus ac pedum regulis ), dedicated to King Aldfrith of Northumbria ( r. 685-704 / 5 ).
Theodore and Wilfrid settled their differences, and Theodore urged the new Northumbrian king, Aldfrith, to allow Wilfrid's return.
Aldfrith agreed to do so, but in 691 he expelled Wilfrid again.
After the death of Ecgfrith in 685, Archbishop Theodore arranged a reconciliation between Wilfrid and Aldfrith, Ecgfrith's successor, but in 692 Aldfrith and Wilfrid fell out and Wilfrid went into exile in Mercia.
The descent of Aldfrith.
Ecgfrith's death threatened to break the hold of the descendants of Æthelfrith on Northumbria, but the scholar Aldfrith became king and the thrones of Bernicia and Deira remained united.
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