Osræd

Old English Alternative forms ang Ōsrēd Etymology From ang ōs god and ang rǣd counsel, advice. Pronunciation Ōs-rǣd Proper noun Ōsrǣd m ang male The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ang Ōsrēd, þe wæs Norþanhymbra cining, æfter wræcsīþe hām cumenum ġelǣht wæs ⁊ ofslagen on XVIII Kƚ Octoƀ ⁊ his līc liġþ æt Tīnamūþe. ⁊ Æþelrēd cining feng tō nīwan wīfe, sēo wæs Ælflēd ġehāten, on III Kƚ Octobr̃. Osred, who was king of Northumbria, was apprehended and slain on the 17th of October after coming home from his foreign travels, and his body lies at Tynemouth. And King Aethelred took a new wife, whose name was Aelfled, on the third of October. References Electronic Sawyer S 774 (King Edgar to St Peter's, Thorney (i.e. Westminster Abbey); confirmation, reciting a bull of Pope John, of liberties and of land at Ham (in East Ham), Wennington, Essex; Morden, Surrey; Fanton (Hall) in North Benfleet, Essex; Aldenham, Herts.; Bleccenham and Lothereslege (both lost, in Hendon), Middx; Holwell, Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts.; Chollington in Eastbourne, Sussex; Staines, with Teddington, Halliford, Feltham and Ashford, Middx), Osræd is mentioned as "Osred" in the old text section.