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Edward the Elder. (died 924). The son of Alfred the Great , Edward the Elder was an Anglo-Saxon king of England. As ruler of the West Saxons, or Wessex, from 899 to 924, he recaptured a large part of central England that had been taken by Danish invaders. Edward came to the throne upon his father’s death in October 899.
Eadgifu of Kent. Ecgwynn. Categories: Wives by person. Anglo-Saxon royal consorts. House of Wessex. 10th-century English women.
20 de jul. de 2018 · Edward the Elder ruled England from the year 899 to the year 924. During the reign of his father Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder had taken an active role in his campaigns against the Vikings. On the great Alfred's death the succession was disputed between Edward or Eadweard and Ethelwald, the son of Alfred's elder brother Ethelred I .
Edward then again went into exile with his brother and sister; in 1017 his mother married Cnut. In the same year, Cnut had Edward's last surviving elder half-brother, Eadwig, executed. Edward spent a quarter of a century in exile, probably mainly in Normandy, although there is no evidence of his location until the early 1030s.
Hans Holbein the Elder's Basilica of St. Paul, with portraits of the artist and his sons. Holbein painted richly colored religious works. His later paintings show how he pioneered and led the transformation of German art from the (Late) International Gothic to the Renaissance style.
Ælfflæd of Wessex → Ælfflæd, wife of Edward the Elder – Wikimandia has changed to the current name from Ælfflæd (wife of Edward the Elder) without consulting other users, so I think it should be changed back if there is no consensus on the name, but I prefer 'Ælfflæd, wife of Edward the Elder'. The new name is uninformative and ...
Edmund Calamy the Elder. Edmund Calamy (February 1600 – 29 October 1666) was an English Presbyterian church leader and divine. Known as "the elder", he was the first of four generations of nonconformist ministers bearing the same name.
