Ailred (Ealred, Aluredus, or Ethelred)
Ailred (Ealre'd, Aluredus, Or Ethelred), an English ecclesiastical writer, who was born at Herham in 1109, and died in 1166 as prior of the Cistercian Abbey of Rievaula, Yorkshire, is the author of a number of religious works, which may be found in the Biblioth. Patruwn, xxiii.