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Hace 1 día · 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 6 días · Following the reconquest of remaining Danish-held territory, completed in 927 by Alfred’s grandson Athelstan, the kings of Wessex became kings of England. The region figures prominently in legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table , and the designation “Wessex” was used by novelist Thomas Hardy to represent the ...
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Hace 3 días · Æthelstan: The First King of England. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780300125351; 336pp.; Price: £30.00. Æthelstan might not, to the uninitiated, seem a very likely candidate for a volume in the prestigious Yale English Monarchs series. He lacks the name-recognition associated with a Conquerer or a Confessor, and is not ...
Hace 2 días · Athelstan. Played by George Blagden (seasons 1–4) An Anglo-Saxon monk from the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. Captured by Ragnar on his first raid, Athelstan is constantly torn between the customs of Christian England and the pagan ways of Scandinavia. Athelstan becomes a confidant of King Ecbert after he is captured by ...
20 de may. de 2024 · Athelstan to Aldi! Athelstan 1100 has inspired a collection of songs about Malmesbury’s townsfolk of yesteryear by the townsfolk of today. The launch of ‘Athelstan to Aldi’– a ‘Book Reading and Album Listening Party’ - is on Sunday 30 th June at 7:30pm at the Town Hall. We also hear this may be the event debut of Athelstan Ale!
Hace 5 días · Some rare artefacts will be showcased at a museum in Wiltshire this summer to celebrate the anniversary of Athelstan becoming King. The Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury, located in the Town Hall building, has a range of events going on across the town and will be displaying items on loan from The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the British ...
5 de may. de 2024 · 1 view 6 minutes ago #history #historyfacts #historia. Join us as we uncover the captivating story of Athelstan, widely regarded as England's first true king ...
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