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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").
Offa, king of Mercia from 757 to 796, was the dominant figure of the second half of the 8th century. King Beorhtric of Wessex (786–802), married Offa's daughter in 789. Beorhtric and Offa drove Æthelwulf's father Ecgberht into exile, and he spent several years at the court of Charlemagne in Francia.
King Charles II had 25 royal yachts, [2] while five were simultaneously in service in 1831. [3] Merchantmen or warships have occasionally been chartered or assigned for special duty as a temporary royal yacht, for example the steamship Ophir in 1901 and the battleship HMS Vanguard in 1947. [citation needed]
King Haakon VII received the royal yacht Norge as a gift from the people of Norway in 1947. The royal yacht is owned by the king but maintained and crewed by the Royal Norwegian Navy. Before this other naval ships had served as royal sea transport and the king used some smaller boats for short trips mostly on official occasions. Sophia Amalia ...
Mercia and the Making of England. Sutton Pub Limited. ISBN 978-0-7509-2131-2. Williams, Ann, "Some Notes and Considerations on Problems Connected with the English Royal Succession, 860–1066", Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1978, R. Allen Brown, ed., Boydell & Brewer, 1979, 144–167. Yorke, Barbara. Bishop Æthelwold. His Career and ...
King Albert may refer to: Albert I of Belgium (1875–1934) Albert II of Belgium (born 1934) Albert I of Germany (1255–1308) Albert II of Germany (1397–1439)
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Georgios I, king of Makuria (approximate date) Ibn Abd Rabbih, Moorish writer and poet (d. 940) John X, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 928) Ludmila, Bohemian duchess regent and saint (approximate date) Odo I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (or 859) Robert I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (or 866) Sancho Garcés I, king of Pamplona ...