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Elfwald II, King of Northumbria, active 806-808

LC control no.n 94046706
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingElfwald II, King of Northumbria, active 806-808
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Variant(s)Aelfwald II, King of Northumbria, active 806-808
Alfwold II, King of Northumbria, active 806-808
Elfwald II, King of Northumbria, fl. 806-808
Beginning date0806
Ending date0808
Found inCollingwood, W.G. The likeness of King Elfwald, 1990: p. facing t.p. (Elfwald II of Northumbria) p. 274, etc. (Under chronology for 808: Alfwold II deposed; under Royal families of Northumbria: Elfwald II (806-808)
Stenton, F. Anglo-Saxon England, 1990: p. 95, footnote 1 (Northumbrian tradition, best preserved by Symeon of Durham ... interpolated the two years' reign of a certain Aelfwald between Eardwulf's expulsion and Eanred's succession. There is some evidence from coins for the existence of a Northumbrian king named Aelfwald at approximately this time)
Higham, N.J. The kingdom of Northumbria, AD 350-1100, 1993: p. 145 (806-8: Aelfwald II: died)