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Hace 3 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.
Hace 5 días · Æthelstan Half-King, Ealdorman of East Anglia. Birthdate: estimated between 881 and 935. Death: 957. Immediate Family: Son of Æthelfrith of Wessex and Mercia, Earl of Mercia and Æthelgyth of Wessex and Mercia. Husband of Ælfwynn.
Hace 5 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 ...
Hace 5 días · The monastery lay absolutely desolate for nearly a century, but in the time of King Edgar, circa 966, its restoration was undertaken by Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester. The story of his dream, of his first seeking to establish a house at Oundle, and of the queen overhearing his prayers and becoming a great supporter of his scheme ...
Hace 4 días · When Athelflæd died, Mercia was absorbed by Wessex. From that point on there was no contest for the throne, so the house of Wessex became the ruling house of England. Edward the Elder was succeeded by his son Æthelstan, whom Keynes calls the "towering figure in the landscape of the tenth century".
Hace 3 días · This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, one of the petty kingdoms to rule a portion of modern England. While Alfred was not the first king to lay claim to rule all of the English, his rule represents the first unbroken line of Kings to rule the whole of England, the House of Wessex.
Hace 3 días · By the time of the Northumbrian king Æthelfrith's victory over the British in 616, Chester was in territory associated with the British kingdom of Powys and was perhaps the seat of a branch of the royal dynasty of the Cadelling, whose representatives were prominent in the battle.
