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Alfred was the youngest 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 ...
Edward the Elder (870s? – 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924. He was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his wife Ealhswith.When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin Æthelwold, who had a strong claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred I.
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
Mary 1631–1660 Princess Royal: James II & VII 1633–1701 King of England and Scotland r. 1685–1688: House of Hanover: George I 1660–1727 King of Great Britain r. 1714–1727: William III & II 1650–1702 King of England and Scotland r. 1689–1702: Mary II 1662–1694 Queen of England and Scotland r. 1689–1694: Anne 1665–1714
Ealhswith or Ealswitha was wife to King Alfred the Great.She was one of the most powerful noble women in early medieval England during the time of the Vikings. She was mother to King Edward the Elder who succeeded King Alfred to the Anglo-Saxon throne.
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Марія Александровна, romanized: Mariya Aleksandrovna; 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1853 – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Alfred, Duke of Saxe ...
She was the youngest daughter of Alfred the Great, [1] the Saxon King of England and his wife Ealhswith. Her siblings included King Edward the Elder and Æthelflæd. Between 893 and 899, Ælfthryth married Baldwin II (died 918), Margrave of Flanders. [2] They had the following issue: Arnulf I of Flanders (d. 964/65); married Adela of Vermandois [1]