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Æthelbald (died 860) was King of Wessex from 855 or 858 to 860. He was the second of five sons of King Æthelwulf.In 850, Æthelbald's elder brother Æthelstan defeated the Vikings in the first recorded sea battle in English history, but he is not recorded afterwards and probably died in the early 850s.
The King left Wessex in the care of his oldest surviving son, Æthelbald, and the sub-kingdom of Kent to the rule of Æthelberht, and thereby confirmed that they were to succeed to the two kingdoms. [25] On the way the party stayed with Charles the Bald in Francia, where there were the usual banquets and exchange of gifts.
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. Æthelberht was first recorded as a witness to a charter in 854. The following year Æthelwulf went on pilgrimage to Rome and appointed his ...
Æthelbald refused to give up his throne when his father returned to England in 856, and continued as king either of west Wessex or the whole territory until his father died in 858. Æthelbald then married his father's widow, Judith , a great-granddaughter of Charlemagne , to the scandal of later monastic chroniclers, and ruled Wessex until his ...
During Ælfwald's rule, East Anglia enjoyed sustained growth and stability, albeit under the senior authority of the Mercian king Æthelbald, [3] who ruled his kingdom from 716 until he was murdered by his own men in 757. [4] Ælfwald was the last of the Wuffingas dynasty, who had ruled East Anglia since the sixth century. [5]
7th King of Wessex 625–636: Centwine d. 685 13th King of Wessex 676–685: Seaxburh d. c. 674 (11th) Queen of Wessex c. 672 – c. 674: Cenwalh d. 674 8/10th King of Wessex 642–645–648–683: sister of Penda? Penda c. 606 –655 9th King of Wessex 645–648: Eowa? Cenfus d. 674 12th King of Wessex 674: Cædwalla c. 659 –689 14th King of ...
One of the first police officers to arrive at the scene following the death of an 86-year-old widow told a court he and colleagues made a "terrible mistake" by initially not treating the death as ...
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.