Wulfric Spot

Wulfric Spot
An 18th-century pencil sketch of a stained glass window in Abbots Bromley depicting Wulfric, the original held by the William Salt Library, Stafford
Died	c. 1004 (on 22 October, according to later tradition) possibly in the battle of Ringmere
Resting place	cloister of Burton Abbey
Years active	floruit 980s until death
Known for	landed wealth, patronage of Burton Abbey, Anglo-Saxon will
Title	thegn (minister, charters), consul and comes (Burton Abbey Chronicle)
Children	daughter of unknown name
Parent(s)	Wulfrun (mother)
Relatives	Ælfhelm of York (brother); Ælfthryth (sister); Wulfric the Black; Ælfgifu of Northampton (niece), Morcar (nephew)

Wulfric (died circa 1004), called Wulfric Spot or Spott, was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman. His will is an important document from the reign of King Æthelred the Unready. Wulfric was a patron of the Burton Abbey, around which the modern town of Burton on Trent later grew up, and may have refounded the Benedictine monastery there.

He was one of the three known children of the noblewoman Wulfrun, after whom Wolverhampton is named. Wulfric's family was linked with the Wulfsige the Black to whom King Edmund granted land in Staffordshire. As much of Wulfric the Black's estate was granted to Wolverhampton by Wulfrun, and other parts, including lands around modern Abbots Bromley passed to Wulfric, it is possible that Wulfric the Black was this Wulfric's maternal grandfather. The family was related to the Wulfgeat who is a witness to charters in the reign of King Edgar and received lands in Staffordshire and Gloucestershire from the king. Of Wulfric's father and his paternal kin nothing is known.

Wulfric's brother was Ælfhelm, Ealdorman of York or Northumbria from 993 until he was killed in 1006. Ælfhelm was the father of King Cnut's first wife Ælfgifu of Northampton, mother of Svein and King Harold Harefoot. He also had two sons, Wulfheah and Ufegeat, who were blinded when he was killed. Their sister was Ælfthryth whose daughter Ealdgyth married Morcar, killed in 1015 along with his brother Sigeferth on the orders of King Æthelred. Ælfthryth appears to have died before Wulfric's will was written.