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| Name |
Thored Ealderman Gunnarsson |
| Birth |
Abt 938 |
Wessex  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Abt 985 |
York, Northumbria |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
9 Mar 1955 |
SLAKE |
| FamilySearch ID |
LYXW-BQK |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I13272 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Thored was a 10th-century ealdorman of York, ruler of the southern hal f o f the old Kingdom of Northumbria on behalf of the king of England. Be liev ed to have been born about 938, he was the son of either Gunnar or O slac , both northern ealdormen. If he was the former, he may have attaine d adu lthood by the 960s, when a man of his name raided Westmorland. Othe r pote ntial appearances in the records are likewise uncertain until 979 , the po int from which Thored's period as ealdorman can be accurately da ted .
Thored appears to have been of at least partially Scandinavian origin, s u ggested by the title applied to him in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entr y fo r 992. Here, the ealdorman of Hampshire is called by the English tit le "e aldorman", while Thored himself is styled by the Scandinavian wor d eorl ( i.e. Earl).
Two accounts of Thored's origins have been offered by modern historian s . The first is that he was a son of Oslac, ealdorman of York from 966 u nt il his exile in 975. This argument is partly based on the assertion b y th e Historia Eliensis, that Oslac had a son named Thorth (i.e. "Thored "). T he other suggestion, favoured by most historians, is that he was th e so n of a man named Gunnar. This Gunnar is known to have held land in t he Ea st and North Ridings of Yorkshire.
Although historians differ in their opinions about his relationship, i f a ny, to Kings Edgar the Peaceable and Edward the Martyr, it is general ly t hought that he enjoyed a good relationship with King Æthelred II. Hi s dau ghter Ælfgifu married Æthelred. Thored was ealdorman in Northumbri a for m uch of Æthelred's reign, disappearing from the sources in 992 aft er bein g appointed by Æthelred to lead an expedition against the Viking s .
"Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy" by Alison Weir, ident i fies the wife of Thored and mother of his children as Hilda. In additi o n to Ælfgifu, they also had a son:
- Ælfgifu (c. 963-1002), the first wife of King Æthelred II 'the Unready ' , King of England.
- Æthelstan of Ringmere (died 1010)
Thored's exact date of death is not known, only that he was last record e d in 992. His disappearance from records after that is regarded to be b ec ause of his death, likely in the Viking expedition he had been appoint e d to lead.
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