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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").
English: Illustration of Alfred the Great at the Battle of Ashdown. The image appears on page 26 of: Hull, E (1913). The Northmen in Britain. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. The original caption reads "Alfred at Ashdune".
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