2489968282. Ældred of Bernicia , 5th Earl of Northumbria
"Aeldred or Aldred, Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of York from 1060, played an important part in the secular politics of teh time of the Norman conquest, and legitimized the rule of William the Conqueror by crowning him King on Christmas day 1066.
Ealdred became abbott of Tavistock, Devon, about 1027, and Bishop of Worcester in 1046. Made Archbishop of York by Pope Nicholas II, he was forced by Nicholas' successor, Alexander II, to relinquish the see of Worcester in 1062. As archbishop he did considerable ecclesiastical building in the city of York and elsewhere.
In 1054, Ealdred went to Germany to negociate with the Emperor Henry III the return from Hungary of the heir to the English throne, Edward, son of Edmund Ironside. He probably crowned Harold II as King of the English (6 jan 1066).
After the battle of Hastings (14 October 1066) Ealdred was among those who wished to elect Edgard the Aetheling as successor to the slain Harold, but he soon joined Edgar in declaring allegiance to William I. With approval from the papacy, Ealdred crowned the new King in Westminster Abbey."
[Encyclopædia Britannica, 4:316]
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