WikiTree profile Atholl-23 created through the import of Mears Family Tree as Oct 200.ged on Dec 24, 2011 by David Mears.
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This person was created through the import of Dickinson Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011.
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Her name might seem "unscottish", but she was born only ~150 years after MacAlpin conquered the Picts and eventually united the tribes to form Alba. There still would have been a considerable presence of Anglo-Saxons in the area (and also Britons and probably still Picts). It seems entirely possible that Wulfflaed was named for a relative who was of Anglo-Saxon descent.
For example, her son (Maldred) married an Anglo-Saxon woman named Ealdgyth, the daughter of Uhtred the Bold of Northumbria. Her other son, none other than Duncan I, married Suthen Sibylla, an Anglo-Saxon woman of Northumbria.
It seems entirely plausible that somewhere in either House Dunkeld or House MacAlpin, there were other Anglo-Saxons from which a child might inherit their name. This was all before the clans and identity of Scotland as we know it today had formed, as well.
For example, her son (Maldred) married an Anglo-Saxon woman named Ealdgyth, the daughter of Uhtred the Bold of Northumbria. Her other son, none other than Duncan I, married Suthen Sibylla, an Anglo-Saxon woman of Northumbria.
It seems entirely plausible that somewhere in either House Dunkeld or House MacAlpin, there were other Anglo-Saxons from which a child might inherit their name. This was all before the clans and identity of Scotland as we know it today had formed, as well.