ALDRED or EALDRED (d. io69), English ecclesiastic, became abbot of Tavistock about 1027, in Io44 was made bishop of Worcester, and in i o6o archbishop of York. It is stated by Florence of Worcester that Aldred crowned King Harold II. in i o66, although the Norman authorities mention Stigand as the officiating prelate. After the battle of Hastings, Aldred joined the party who sought to bestow the throne upon Edgar the Aetheling, but when these efforts appeared hopeless he was among those who submitted to William the Conqueror at Berkhamp stead. Selected to crown the new King, he performed the cere mony on Christmas Day i o66, and in i o68 performed the same office at the coronation of Matilda, the Conqueror's wife. He died at York on Sept. 11, io69, and was buried in his own cathedral.
See The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, edited by C. Plummer (Oxford, 1892-99) ; Florence of Worcester, Chronicon ex Chronicis, edited by B. Thorpe (London, 1848-49) ; William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum, edited by N.E.S.A. Hamilton (London, 187o) ; W. H. Dixon, Fasti Eboracenses, vol. i., edited by J. Raine (London, 1863) ; T. Stubbs, Chronica Pontificum Ecclesiae Eboracensis, edited by J. Raine (London, 1879-94) ; E. A. Freeman, History of the Norman Conquest, vol. ii., iii., iv. (Oxford, .