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Oct 10, 1999 · King Alfred of Wessex (r.871-99) is probably the best known of all Anglo-Saxon rulers, even if the first thing to come into many people’s minds in connection with him is something to do with burnt confectionery. This year saw the 1100th anniversary of his death on 26 October 899, at the age of about 50.
He built warships, forts and walled towns known as ‘burhs’. Alfred died in 899 and was buried at his capital city of Winchester. Athelstan was Alfred the Great’s grandson. He reigned between ...
In 868 AD, Alfred married Ealhswith, the daughter of a Mercian nobleman. The pair had five children together. When the Great Heathen Army arrived, Alfred’s next oldest brother, Aethelred, was King of Wessex. The same year Alfred wed Ealhswith he began his military career, as he was recorded fighting alongside his brother against the Vikings.
Æthelwulf ( Old English: [ˈæðelwuɫf]; [1] Old English for "Noble Wolf"; [2] died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. [a] In 825, his father, King Ecgberht, defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia, ending a long Mercian dominance over Anglo-Saxon England south of the Humber. Ecgberht sent Æthelwulf with an army to Kent, where he ...
May 21, 2018 · A modern biography is Eleanor Shipley Duckett, Alfred the Great (1956; published in England as Alfred the Great and His England, 1957). Also useful is the chapter on Alfred in Christopher Brooke, The Saxon and Norman Kings (1963). Alfred's reign and achievements are recorded in G. N. Garmonsway, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1953).
In January 871 Alfred, prince of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex, waited for his brother in the tense moments before battle. The prince gazed at a formidable host of Viking warriors assembled on high ground at Ashdown, in Berkshire. For six years, “the Great Army” of Viking raiders had roamed nearly at will across the Saxon kingdoms of England.
Apr 1, 2020 · Alfred, England's darling for more than a thousand years, had 'The Great' bestowed upon him in medieval times by the English nation proud of their ancestor. Alfred had a diminutive and isolated stage on which to perform, compared to the likes of Alexander or Peter. Alfred, when he became King of the West Saxons, was the monarch of Wessex, a ...
