lfred Atheling, son of Æthelred II and
Emma; taken with his brother Edward (afterward the Confessor) to
their uncle, Richard the Good of Normandy. In 1036, on the death
of Canute, the claims of Ælfred and Edward to the English throne
were set aside by the Witan. Ælfred landed at Dover with a force
of Normans, but was attacked and captured by Earl Godwin, who
cruelly blinded him; he died from his injuries at Ely. [World
Wide Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1935]