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Alfred was the youngest son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").
The house became dominant in southern England after the accession of King Ecgberht in 802. Alfred the Great saved England from Viking conquest in the late ninth century and his grandson Æthelstan became first king of England in 927. The disastrous reign of Æthelred the Unready ended in Danish conquest in 1014.
First Son of King Alfred the Great and Queen Ealhswith c. 874/877 - 924 King of the Anglo-Saxons r. 899–924: Queen Eadgifu of Kent c. 903 –966 Third wife of Edward the Elder: Queen Ælfflæd c. 899-919 Second wife of Edward the Elder: Æthelweard d. 920 or 922 Second Son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith: Ælfthryth of Wessex Countess ...
Proclaimed himself King of Britain in 736. Murdered by his bodyguards. 757 Beornred: 757 No known relation to his predecessors. Deposed by Offa. ? Offa: 757–796 Great-great-grandson of Eowa. The greatest and most powerful of all Mercian kings, he proclaimed himself King of the English in 774, built Offa's Dyke, and introduced the silver penny ...
22nd King of Wessex 839–858: Osburh? Æthelstan d. c. 852 King of Kent 839–851: Æthelbald c. 831 –860 23rd King of Wessex 858–860: Æthelberht c. 835 –865 24th King of Wessex 860–865: Æthelred I c. 847 –871 25th King of Wessex 865–871: Alfred the Great c. 848–849 –899 26th King of Wessex 871–c. 886 1st King of the Anglo ...
Alfred the Great. Reign: April, 23 871 – October 26, 899 (28 years, 187 days) Alfred is the only British king that’s called “The Great.” All four of his brothers were also kings before his ...
Alfred [5] Alfred the Great (King of Wessex from 871) c. 886 – 26 October 899 (13 years) 849. Son of Æthelwulf of Wessex ... King James VI of Scotland, ...
Somerset Wildlands has purchased 73 acres of farmland below the Isle of Athelney where the king burned the cakes and dreamed of a vision of England.
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