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Map of England (878) showing the extent of the Danelaw (also known as the Danelagh). Alfred the Great at Wantage (Oxfordshire) Year 878 (DCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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 ...
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself king of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886, and while he was not the first king to claim to rule all of the English, his rule ...
Princes of southern Wales acknowledge Alfred as their overlord. [1] 879. Guthrum relocates to East Anglia where he will rule under his baptismal name of Æthelstan. [1] [12] 886. Alfred restores London to Mercia. Alfred signs a treaty with Guthrum, granting the territory between the Thames and the Tees to the Vikings; later known as the Danelaw ...
Flag of England Statue of Alfred the Great, the Anglo-Saxon King of Wessex from 871 to 899. A map of England (dark red) within the United Kingdom (light red). English nationalism is a nationalism that asserts that the English are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of English people.
Map of Anglo-Saxon England. The Gaini are only recorded in Asser's life of King Alfred the Great, written in 893, which stated that in 868, before he became king, Alfred married Ealhswith, daughter of Æthelred, known as Mucel, ealdorman of the Gaini. Mucel witnessed Mercian charters between 814 and 866, with two subscribing in the 830s and 840s.
British Isles. This is a list of rulers in the British Isles.The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles and over six thousand smaller islands.