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Alfred was a 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").
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 ...
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 ...
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The cult of King Alfred the Great increased until by the reign of Victoria, Alfred was perceived as founder of the English nation and an archetypal symbol of the nation's perception of itself. He has been seen as a heroic figure, who centuries after his death inspired many artistic and cultural works.
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Will of Alfred the Great, AD 873–888 (11th-century copy, British Library Stowe MS 944, ff. 29v–33r) [9]. A few scholars have put forward a genealogical reconstruction making the Godwins descend from Alfred the Great's elder brother, King Æthelred I of Wessex.
The Christian theologian F. N. Lee extensively documented Alfred the Great's work of collecting the law codes from the three Christian Saxon kingdoms and compiling them into his Doom Book. [3] Lee details how Alfred incorporated the principles of the Mosaic law into his Code, and how this Code of Alfred became the foundation for the Common Law.
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