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8 de jun. de 2024 · brother Edward. Aethelflaed (died June 12, 918, Tamworth, England) was an Anglo-Saxon ruler of Mercia in England and the founder of Gloucester Abbey. The eldest child of King Alfred the Great, she helped her brother Edward the Elder, king of the West Saxons (reigned 899–924), in conquering the Danish armies occupying eastern England.
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Se refiere al último representante en línea masculina de la Casa de Cerdic, también llamada Casa de Wessex, que suele ser apodado el monarca perdido de Inglaterra porque, pese a haber sido elegido para el trono, nunca fue coronado, y se desconocen tanto la fecha exacta de su muerte como el lugar donde fue enterrado: Edgar Atheling, el rey ...
Hace 5 días · By 883, Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, had accepted Alfred's overlordship, and in the 880s and 890s the Anglo-Saxons ruled Wessex and western Mercia, but the rest of England remained under Viking rule.
10 de jun. de 2024 · Eadgifu of Wessex was a member of the House of Wessex by birth and the French Carolingian Dynasty by marriage. She was the daughter of King Edward the Elder, the wife of King Charles III of France and the mother of King Louis IV.
25 de jun. de 2024 · 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.
14 de jun. de 2024 · Cerdic is cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534. Subsequent kings of Wessex all had some level of descent claimed in the Chronicle from Cerdic.
22 de jun. de 2024 · It was around the time of Alfred's coronation that a Viking force, led by Guthrum (a nephew of the great Danish Viking king Horik II), had been ransacking and running amok in Wessex. Despite its nominal independence, Wessex had been overrun by Viking hordes.
