Lady Wulfruna is Wolverhampton's Founding Mother, who founded the town in 985. Wolverhampton is an industrial, commercial and university city and metropolitan borough in the English West Midlands, traditionally part of the county of Staffordshire. ... Events Barcelona sacked by Al-Mansur Greenland colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct – see History of Greenland) Lady Wulfruna founded the town that later became the city of Wolverhampton Births Al-Hakim bi-Amr...

She was a saxon noble who was captured by Danish vikings in 943, because she was an important member of the royal family of Mercia, one of the Saxon ruling kingdoms. She also held land and wealth of her own, equal to the male members of the Saxon nobility. The Danish vikings' plan was extortion and they saw Wulfruna as a means to get the money that they needed for further campaigns. The money was paid and Wulfruna released, this money was known as Danegeld. A map showing the general locations of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms The Anglo-Saxons were originally a collection of differing Germanic tribes from Angeln—a peninsula in the southern part of Schleswig, protruding into the Baltic Sea, and what is now Lower Saxony, in the north-west coast of... Noble is the guitarist of British Sea Power. ... Events King Constantin II of Scotland retires and becomes a monk, succeeded by his cousin Malcolm I of Scotland Births Deaths Harald I of Norway Categories: 943 ... Mercia, sometimes spelled Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands, with its heart in the valley of the River Trent and its tributary streams. ... The Danegeld was an English tax raised to pay off Viking raiders (usually led by the Danish king) to save the land from being ravaged by the raiders. ...

She founded a convent in Tamworth where it is believed she is buried. This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... Map sources for Tamworth at grid reference SK2203 Tamworth is a historic town and local government district in Staffordshire England, located 17 miles (25km) north-east from the city of Birmingham. ...

She had two sons: Aelfhelm, Ealdorman of Northumbria and Wulfric Spott, founder of Burton Abbey. Section from Shepherds map of the British Isles about 802 AD showing the kingdom of Northumbria Northumbria is primarily the name of an Anglian kingdom which was formed in Great Britain at the beginning of the 7th century, and of the much smaller earldom which succeeded the kingdom. ...

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