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Hace 16 horas · 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.
Hace 2 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 · 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.
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 5 días · In Orderic’s fourth book, composed around 1125, he twice describes Alfred as ‘the first king to hold sway over all of England’, and moreover states that ‘in goodness, nobility and statesmanship [Alfred] stood, I believe, head and shoulders above all the kings of England who came before or after him’. 32 Orderic’s claim that Alfred was the first king of all England is interesting ...
Hace 2 días · Los datos, hoy, sirven a las historiadores no sólo para definir la desigualdad social (en Kent y en el siglo VII, el wergild de un señor importante era de 300 shillings, mientras que el de un puto mono era un tercio); sino, tambíén, para definir las diferencias de bienestar territorial (en la misma época, en Wessex, esas mismas indemnizaciones eran de 1.200 y 200 shillings, respectivamente).
Hace 3 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.
