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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.
Hace 5 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 3 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.
Hace 2 días · In The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century, George Molyneaux investigates how territories under the dominion of the Cerdicing kings of Wessex developed into a clearly defined and conquerable kingdom.
Hace 2 días · 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 4 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 · EARLY MEDIEVAL CHESTER 400-1230. Sub-roman and early english chester. The 10th-century refortification and reoccupation. Chester and the west saxon rulers, 907-40. The hiberno-norse community. The mint and trade in the 10th century. Chester and the ealdormen and earls of mercia. Chester in 1066. Chester and the anglo-norman earls.
