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  2. Æthelwulf, King of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Æthelwulf (Old English: [ˈæðelwuɫf]; [1] Old English for "Noble Wolf"; [2] died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. [a] In 825, his father, King Ecgberht, defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia, ending a long Mercian dominance over Anglo-Saxon England south of the Humber.

  3. Æthelwold ætheling - Wikipedia

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    Very little is known of Æthelwold's immediate family. His father, Æthelred, was born in about 848 [b] and died in 871, so his sons must have been young children when he died.

  4. Ethel - Wikipedia

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    The word means æthel "noble". [1] [2]It is frequently attested as the first element in Anglo-Saxon names, both masculine and feminine, e.g. Æthelhard, Æthelred, Æthelwulf; Æthelburg, Æthelflæd, Æthelthryth ().

  5. Æthelwulf of Berkshire - Wikipedia

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    Æthelwulf of Berkshire (before 825 – 4 January, 871) was a Saxon ealdorman.In 860 he and other men of Berkshire fought off a band of pirates near Winchester, Hampshire. [1]

  6. Ætheling - Wikipedia

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    Ætheling was also used in a poetic sense to mean "a good and noble man". Old English verse often used ætheling to describe Christ, as well as various prophets and saints.. The hero of the 8th century Beowulf is introduced as an ætheling, possibly in the sense of a relative of the King of the Geats, though some translators render ætheling as "retaine

  7. King Æthelwulf - Wikipedia

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  8. Æthelberht, King of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Æthelberht (Old English: [ˈæðelberˠxt]; also spelled Ethelbert or Aethelberht) was the King of Wessex from 860 until his death in 865. He was the third son of King Æthelwulf by his first wife, Osburh.

  9. Æthelswith - Wikipedia

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    Æthelswith in a thirteenth-century cartulary for Abingdon Abbey. Æthelswith (c. 838–888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex.She married King Burgred of Mercia in 853.