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Hace 1 día · 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 16 horas · 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 2 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 5 días · Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2007, ISBN: 9781843832836; 264pp.; Price: £50.00. Bishops, in theory the central figures in the Anglo-Saxon Church, have received polarized, and sometimes unbalanced, treatment from its historians. Reacting against the assumption—drawn uncritically from universal ...
Hace 3 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.
Hace 1 día · When recounting the return of King Æthelwulf of Wessex from Rome and the refusal of his son Æthelbald to relinquish the control over the kingdom he had temporarily been given, Asser labelled him a pertinax filius (obstinate son) and claimed that such dishonouring of one’s parent was a disgrace against the values and customs of all Christians (infamia contra morem omnium Christianorum).
Hace 3 días · King Æthelwulf of Wessex (839-55) is said by William of Malmesbury to have made a rich shrine for St. Aldhelm's bones and to have granted lands and immunities from taxation. (fn. 57) It was between 824 and 867 that Eahlstan, the militant Bishop of Sherborne, committed many aggressions against Malmesbury, inspired, according to William, by avari...
