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Hace 1 día · Æthelwulf, King of Wessex. Mother. Osburh. Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
Hace 5 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 4 días · Of note is Thomas’s identification of Alfred as ‘the first king of the English’ (by certain criteria), and the rubric of his chapter on Alfred: ‘Concerning Alfred the Good, who was the first anointed king of all the kings of the Britons and the English’. 79 Here Thomas adopts the ‘good’ byname, despite his text, at least in this part, demonstrating no overt engagement with the ...
Hace 5 días · Cnut ( / kəˈnjuːt /; [3] Old Norse: Knútr Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈknuːtr]; [a] c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, [4] [5] [6] was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. [1] The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule are ...
Hace 6 días · Æthelwulf king of the West Saxons granted a 5-hide estate at Minety to Malmesbury abbey, probably in the late 830s. The grant was confirmed in 855. By c. 1199 Malmesbury abbey also possessed the right of patronage to Minety church. In 1270 the abbot and convent surrendered the estate to the bishops of Salisbury.
28 de abr. de 2024 · The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that "Egbert succeeded to the kingdom of Wessex" after the death of Beorhtric in 802, in a later passage describing him as Ecgberht as son of Ealhmund, and in another passage which setting out his complete ancestry from his son Æthelwulf King of Wessex[1465].
13 de may. de 2024 · At this point the narrative sequence is interrupted by the first of the analytical or exegetical interludes, in which Asser discusses Æthelwulf’s forbearance in his treatment of Æthelbald. 30 Instead of expelling his unworthy son at the cost of many lives, Æthelwulf chose to partition his kingdom; at the same time (and in a departure from West Saxon precedent) he also chose to share his ...
