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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 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 3 días · A large-scale incursion by the Danes of Northumbria ended in their crushing defeat at Tettenhall in 910. Edward completed his father’s plan of building a ring of fortresses around Wessex, and his sister Aethelflaed took similar measures in Mercia.
Hace 4 días · Edgar (born 943/944—died July 8, 975) was the king of the Mercians and Northumbrians from 957 who became king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, in 959 and is reckoned as king of all England from that year. He was efficient and tolerant of local customs, and his reign was peaceful.
Hace 5 días · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg.
Hace 3 días · After Wihtred’s death in 725 and Ine’s abdication in 726, both Kent and Wessex had internal troubles and could not resist the Mercian kings Aethelbald and Offa. The great age of Mercia Aethelbald succeeded in 716 to the rule of all the Midlands and to the control of Essex and London.
Hace 4 días · The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who became one of the most important cultural groups in Britain by the 5th century.
