# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ubba
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:02:28.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ubba"
name: "Ubba"
slug: "ubba"
description: "A Viking commander who helped break three Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 860s and 870s, then died in Devon leading a separate warband — later legend fused him with martyrdom tales and Ragnar Lodbrok's sons, though the contemporary trail is thinner and colder."
tagline: "Ninth-century Viking leader"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Harley_MS_2278%2C_folio_48v_excerpt.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1000"
deathDate: "878"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.57
  momentum:             15.09326380658924
  historical:           21.897572
  currentAttention:     18.11879930924729
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    slug: "historical-figure"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ubba led part of the Great Heathen Army that crossed into East Anglia in 865, a coalition pulled from Scandinavia, Ireland, and the continent; some sources call him dux of the Frisians, hinting at a Frankish fiefdom. The army tore through Northumbria, bought off Mercia, then destroyed the East Angles in 869 and killed King Edmund — a death that spawned a cult. By 873 the coalition had split: Halfdan took Northumbria, Guthrum pushed south into Wessex. In the winter of 877–878, as Guthrum struck deep, a second Viking force hit Devon. That army was annihilated at Arx Cynuit in 878, and a near-contemporary source names its leader as a brother of Ivar and Halfdan. Later sources call him Ubba.