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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 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 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.
Hace 1 día · El principal elemento de esta evolución fue la pérdida progresiva de poder por parte de Mercia. La excelente serie de reyes que se produjo hasta Offa se secó; y, automáticamente, fue Wessex quien tomó el relevo. Fue allí, en Wessex, donde se estableció una dinastía real que, en doscientos años, consiguió reinar sobre toda Inglaterra.
Hace 3 días · The first endowments of the abbey founded at Ancarig c. 662 by Saxulph, Abbot of Peterborough, and after devastation by the Danes in 870 refounded as the Abbey of Thorney by Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, in 972, appear to have included a manor of Newton, which was acquired for the abbey by Æthelwold from a knight called Ælfric ...
