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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").
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 ...
Great-great-great-grandson of Edmund Ironside: Henry II named his son, Henry the Young King (1155–1183), as co-ruler with him but this was a Norman custom of designating an heir, and the younger Henry did not outlive his father and rule in his own right, so he is not counted as a monarch on lists of kings. Richard I [42] Richard the Lionheart
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However, Alfred does not mention his three daughters by name or his youngest son, with Edward, his eldest son, being the only child named. Asser was a Welsh monk who lived during the same time as Alfred, and he learned and taught at St. David’s in Wales. [ 6 ]
The contemporary Liber Vitae (confraternity book) of San Salvatore, Brescia, records the names of both Æthelred and Alfred, indicating that both brothers went to Rome. It is likely that Æthelred was also decorated by the pope, but the ceremony was later regarded as foreshadowing Alfred's greatness and neither the chronicler nor the eleventh ...
The House of Wessex became rulers of a unified English nation under the descendants of Alfred the Great (871–899). Edward the Elder, Alfred's son, united southern England under his rule by conquering the Viking occupied areas of Mercia and East Anglia.
Osburh's existence is known only from Asser's Life of King Alfred.She is not named as witness to any charters, nor is her death reported in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.So far as is known, she was the mother of all Æthelwulf's children, his five sons Æthelstan, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred and Alfred, and his daughter Æthelswith, wife of King Burgred of Mercia.