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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.
- 23 April 871 – c. 886
- Osburh
Hace 1 día · In Orderic’s fourth book, composed around 1125, he twice describes Alfred as ‘the first king to hold sway over all of England’, and moreover states that ‘in goodness, nobility and statesmanship [Alfred] stood, I believe, head and shoulders above all the kings of England who came before or after him’. 32 Orderic’s claim that Alfred was the first king of all England is interesting ...
Hace 3 días · HOUSES OF BENEDICTINE MONKS. 1. ST. ALBANS ABBEY. Before The Conquest. The legend of the foundation of St. Albans Abbey has been graphically written by Matthew Paris, a 13th-century monk of the abbey. According to his account Offa II, King of the Mercians, desired to found a monastery in atonement for the murder by Quendreda, his queen, of ...
Hace 3 días · King Egbert Family Tree & Biography 770-839. King Egbert was a member of the House of Wessex. He was the son of Ealmund of Kent and the first King of Wessex to be named Bretwalda (most powerful King of the seven kingdoms of England). his son, Aethelwulf succeeded him as King of Wessex.
Hace 3 días · Wilfrid stayed for a short time in the kingdom of the Middle Angles and at Wessex, but soon took refuge in Sussex with King Æthelwealh of Sussex. Missions in Sussex Map showing the location of Selsey. Wilfrid spent the next five years preaching to, and converting the pagan inhabitants of Sussex, the South Saxons.
15 de may. de 2024 · In the ninth century the abbey seems to have shared with Wimborne the honour of giving burial to the kings and bishops of Wessex. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that King Æthelbald was buried here in 860, and Æthelbert, who succeeded him, in 866.
Hace 4 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.
