Aethelflaed and Aethelred

After Alfred’s treaty with Guthrum, he controlled much of Mercia but made himself their overlord instead of their king. Alfred married his daughter, Aethelflaed to Mercia’s most powerful man: Aethelred. Aethelflaed was heavily involved in rebuilding Mercia following Viking occupation by building burhs. Her rule was strengthened by her piety; she built a priory at Gloucester which housed the recaptured bones of St Oswald. By 902, her older husband was sick and Aethelflaed defeated Vikings at Chester in 907.