Sigferth

Role: thane · First appears: A.D. 1015–1018

Life events

• 1015 · Alderman Edric betrayed Sigferth and Morcar, who were slain.(A.D. 1015–1018 · 📍 Oxford)
  • With: Alderman Edric Morcar (A.D. 1015)
  • “Alderman Edric betrayed Sigferth and Morcar, the eldest thanes belonging to the Seven Towns. He allured them into his bower, where they were shamefully slain.”

A.D. 1015–1018

• with Alderman Edric (Betrayal.) “Alderman Edric betrayed Sigferth and Morcar, the eldest thanes belonging to the Seven Towns.”
• with Edmund son of Ethelred (Plundered his property.) “Then, before the Nativity of St. Mary, went the etheling west-north into the Five Towns, and soon plundered all the property of Sigferth and Morcar;”

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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.