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Hace 4 días · Edgar became king of the whole of England when Eadwig died on 1 October 959, and his former tutor Æthelwold became one of the most powerful figures at court. He was probably in Edgar's personal service as an adviser from 960 until 963, when the king appointed him Bishop of Winchester. [74]
Hace 2 días · 1. An Unlikely King. As the youngest of five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, Alfred was never expected to become king. However, fate intervened: Alfred‘s father and four elder brothers all died within a span of 20 years. In 871, at the age of 21, Alfred unexpectedly found himself the new King of Wessex. 2.
Hello, I've been doing some research about the history of early England. The line of kings we know untill the last male of the house of Wessex, Edgar Aetheling, are descending from Aelfred the Great. However, Aethelred of Wessex, Aelfred's elder brother, had two sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.
Hace 6 días · Wessex, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Somerset. Learn more about Wessex, including its kings.
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Hace 1 día · Alfred was a son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. 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 ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").
Hace 5 días · The rising power of Wessex began to impinge on Danish Northumbria in the reign of Edward the Elder. The York Danes in 900 accepted as ruler Edward's exiled cousin Æthelwold, who soon afterwards left the kingdom and in 902 died in battle.
21 de may. de 2024 · Again, Wimborne was the centre of events attending the accession to the throne of Edward the Elder in 901, for Æthelwold, son of Æthelbert, an elder brother of Alfred, disputing the title of his cousin and relying on some measure of popular support for his own claim, seized the royal towns of Oxeley or Christchurch (Hants) and Wimborne, and investing the latter place with such troops as he ...
