Approximate extent of the sphere of influence of York (Jórvík), giving a rough indication of Oslac's dominion
Oslac ealdorman (or earl) of York from around 963 to 975. His territory included but may not have been limited to the southern half of Northumbria. His background is obscure because of poor source documentation. The latter has facilitated disagreement amongst historians regarding his family and ethnicity.
He may have been the first ealdorman of southern—as opposed to a united—Northumbria, though an alternative tradition puts the division of Northumbria into two ealdormanries after his death. Little is known of his career as ealdorman, except for a legend that he escorted the Scottish king Kenneth II to the English royal court, and that he was expelled from England in 975. His life is unattested after this. He had one known son, but it is not clear if that son ever succeeded him.
Oslac ealdorman (or earl) ofYork from around 963 to 975. His territory included but may not have been limited to the southern half of Northumbria. His...
parentage, in the Gesta, make him the son of Edith, a descendant ofOslacofYork, and Leofric of Bourne, nephew of Ralph the Staller. Alternatively, it has...
the date Oslac appears for the first time as ealdorman in York. It is unclear whether Oslac was related to Oswulf. According to the De primo Saxonum adventu...
Ealdorman ofYork, ruler of the southern half of the old Kingdom of Northumbria on behalf of the king of England. He was the son of either Gunnar or Oslac, northern...
to the monarch's second son: for example Prince Andrew, Duke ofYork, born in 1960. Oslac (966–975) Thored (974x979–c. 994) Ælfhelm (c. 994–1006) Uhtred...
successor of the Norse Kingdom ofYork. In the seventh century, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira were united in the kingdom of Northumbria...
Æthelfrith: Eanfrith, Oswald, Oswiu, Oslac, Oswudu, Oslaf and Offa. Bede, H.E., Book IV, chapter 23 Ziegler, "Politics of Exile" Kirby, The Earliest English...
King of England 924–939 A daughter, perhaps called Edith, married Sihtric, Viking King ofYork in 926, who died in 927. Possibly Saint Edith of Polesworth...
Essex. (William) Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880–1959) Edmund Oslac Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (1924–2020) Charles Edmund Grenville Ironside...
Duke of Edinburgh". UK Parliament. Retrieved 19 January 2023. "The Prince of Wales". UK Parliament. Retrieved 19 January 2023. "The Duke ofYork". UK...
became lady of the Mercians; and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders. Alfred's mother was Osburga, daughter ofOslacof the Isle of Wight,...
Oslac and Osmund in 1066. By 1086, the ownership of Lubenham had been transferred to the Norman ruling class as a result of the Norman conquest of England...
document dated 780 during the reign ofOslac, duke of the South Saxons. A later form, Earneleia, derives from a charter of England's King Aethelstan dated...
death. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle disapprovingly records the exile of Ealdorman Oslacof Northumbria during Edward's reign, but the circumstances are unknown...
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