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Hace 1 día · Æthelwulf, King of Wessex. Mother. Osburh. 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 4 días · Carl Shaaban as Jesus, appearing to Athelstan and Ragnar (seasons 2–3) Søren Pilmark as Stender, a farmer who escaped Wessex after Aethelwulf's raid (seasons 3–4) Siggy (played by an uncredited infant actress), Þórunn and Bjorn's daughter who dies in childhood (seasons 3–4)
Hace 5 días · THE DANES. SCARCE was the kingdom of Kent free from the miseries of civil war and intestine squabbles, and the consequence of them, before a new source of evil broke out, which ceased not till it had overwhelmed the whole nation. This was the invasion of the Danes, an antient and numerous people, whom the Saxon Chronicle makes the same with the ...
Hace 5 días · Meanwhile, in 560, another influential Anglo-Saxon kingdom emerged—Wessex. Under the leadership of King Ceawlin, Wessex began to assert its authority in the southern regions of Britain. In 565 CE, the Christian missionary St. Columba founded a monastery on the remote island of Iona, off the coast of Scotland.
Hace 2 días · King Athelstan, who succeeded to the English throne in 926, drove the Britons, who had for many years inhabited this city jointly with the Saxons, out of Exeter, and compelled them to retreat beyond the Tamar. After this he fortified the city with towers and a wall of hewn stone.
Hace 5 días · Young James, the Earl of Wessex, is on the brink of a significant transition in his educational journey as the impending storm of GCSEs looms ahead. Despite his royal lineage, it seems that James is set to diverge from the customary traditions of the monarchy as he matures. In 2023, the prestigious title of Earl of Wessex was bestowed upon the ...
Hace 2 días · Landing in Wessex According to the Peterborough Chronicle manuscript, one of the major witnesses of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , early in September 1015 "[Cnut] came into Sandwich, and straightway sailed around Kent to Wessex , until he came to the mouth of the Frome , and harried in Dorset and Wiltshire and Somerset ", [32] beginning a campaign of an intensity not seen since the days of Alfred ...
