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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.
- 23 April 871 – c. 886
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27 de abr. de 2024 · For much of the 7th and 8th centuries, Sussex was engaged in conflict with the kingdom of Wessex to its west. King Æðelwealh formed an alliance with Christian Mercia against Wessex, becoming Sussex's first Christian king.
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- Ceremonial county (until 1974)
11 de abr. de 2024 · It suffered most gravely from the Danish attacks of the later 9th century, and from 877 it was divided into an English and a Danish area. After the reconquest of the Danish lands in the early 10th century by King Edward the Elder, Mercia was ruled by ealdormen for the Wessex kings, who became kings of all England.
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Hace 3 días · The East Saxons seem to have lost control of London, Middlesex and Hertfordshire to Æthelbald, although the East Saxon homelands do not seem to have been affected, and the East Saxon dynasty continued into the ninth century.
19 de abr. de 2024 · son Edward. Ethelred the Unready (born 968?—died April 23, 1016, London, England) was the king of the English from 978 to 1013 and from 1014 to 1016. He was an ineffectual ruler who failed to prevent the Danes from overrunning England.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
10 de abr. de 2024 · Uniting the petty kingdoms of 9th-century England, formulating an effective strategy of defensive communities or burghs and winning a 15-year period of peace for his people were tremendous accomplishments of diplomacy. More than any other single individual, Alfred created the country we know as England.
25 de abr. de 2024 · An 8th-Century leader named Æthelbald ruled Mercia for more than 40 years and faced down challenges from powerful kings in Kent and Wessex. For a time, Æthelbald was the effective ruler of all kingdoms south of the Humber River (leaving out only Northumbria).
