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  2. Æthelberht, King of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    [a] Æthelstan died in the early 850s, but the four younger brothers were successively kings of Wessex: Æthelbald from 855 to 860, [b] Æthelberht from 860 to 865, Æthelred I from 865 to 871 and Alfred the Great from 871 to 899. Æthelberht had one sister, Æthelswith, who married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. [11]

  3. Alfred the Great - Wikipedia

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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").

  4. List of monarchs of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    21st King of Wessex 802–839: Judith c. 843–870: Æthelwulf c. 795 –858 22nd King of Wessex 839–858: Osburh? Æthelstan d. c. 852 King of Kent 839–851: Æthelbald c. 831 –860 23rd King of Wessex 858–860: Æthelberht c. 835 –865 24th King of Wessex 860–865: Æthelred I c. 847 –871 25th King of Wessex 865–871: Alfred the ...

  5. 860 - Wikipedia

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    King Æthelberht of Wessex (c. 836–865) Year 860 was a leap year starting on Monday (link ... Viking raiders led by Weland sail to England and attack Winchester ...

  6. List of British monarchs - Wikipedia

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    There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.

  7. Æthelwulf, King of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Æthelwulf's third son, Æthelberht, was probably born around 839 and was king from 860 to 865. The only daughter, Æthelswith, married Burgred, King of Mercia, in 853. [ 16 ] The other two sons were much younger: Æthelred was born around 848 and was king from 865 to 871, and Alfred was born around 849 and was king from 871 to 899. [ 17 ]

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  9. List of monarchs of Northumbria - Wikipedia

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    Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira.The two were first united by king Æthelfrith around the year 604, and except for occasional periods of division over the subsequent century, they remained so.