High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles lfhelm (died 1006) was the ealdorman of Northumbria, in practice southern Northumbria (the area around York), from about 994 until his death. An ealdorman (or earl) was a senior nobleman who governed a province-a shire or group of shires-on behalf of the king. lfhelm's powerful and wealthy family came from Mercia, a territory and former kingdom incorporating most of central England, and he achieved his position despite being an outsider. lfhelm first appears in charters as dux ("ealdorman") in about 994.
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