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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").
King Alfred painted vault over the choir area in St. Mary's Church, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. King Alfred the Great pictured in a stained glass window in the West Window of the south transept of Bristol Cathedral, by Arnold Wathen Robinson: Eastern Orthodox Ikon of King St. Alfred the Great
Queen Charlotte, Alfred's mother, was a lifelong advocate of inoculation, and she had the royal children undergo the procedure. [12] Variolation, its precursor, was popularised in Britain when the daughters of King George II, then Prince of Wales, underwent the procedure in 1721. [13] In 1782, Prince Alfred was inoculated against smallpox.
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.
Alfred is known to have been visited by a powerful trader called Ottar, who was native to the Lofoten Islands, so it is possible that Alfred gave him the jewel as a gift. [22] Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, it was Viking loot, like most Anglo-Saxon finds in Scandinavia. [23] The Bidford Bobble – the smallest of the jewels. Its round ...
She was married to Alfred in 868. His elder brother Æthelred was then king, and according to Asser, Alfred was regarded as heir apparent. [8] [9] The Danes occupied the Mercian town of Nottingham in that year and her marriage to King Alfred was seen as political leverage. [3] Alfred inherited the throne after his brothers death in 871.
Its success eventually led to several others including The Namesake: A Story Of King Alfred and its sequel The Marsh King; Magna Carta; The Norman Conquest; and The Spanish Armada (1964 to 1967). [3] [4] The Namesake was a commended runner up for the annual Carnegie Medal, which recognises the author of the year's best British children's book ...
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.