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About Ulfcytel Snillingr
Ulfcytel was an early eleventh-century East Anglian military leader. He commanded East Anglian forces in a battle in 1004 against Danish Viking invaders led by Swein Forkbeard; although he lost, the Danes said that "they never met worse fighting in England than Ulfcytel dealt to them". He led a local English army to another defeat in the Battle of Ringmere in 1010 and died in 1016 in the Battle of Assandun. He exercised the powers of an ealdorman, the second highest rank in Anglo-Saxon England; to the puzzlement of historians, he was never formally given the title.
Everything about Ulfcytel Snillingr →- Occupation
- Thane, military officer
- Position held
- ealdorman
- Born
- 901
- Died
- 1016