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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
- Osburh
Hace 5 días · Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History. The Battle of Edington (878), fought by Alfred the Great against his Viking adversaries has a strong claim to be the most important battle in England’s history. May 16, 2024 • By Calvin Hartley, MPhil Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, BA History & Politics.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Battle of Edington, (6–12 May 878). The arrival of a Danish "great army" in East Anglia in 865 marked the start of a new phase of Viking attacks on Britain. Previously, the Vikings had come to raid and settle around the coast; this force came to conquer. Only the victory of Alfred the Great at Edington saved Anglo-Saxon independence.
9 de may. de 2024 · King Aethelred I and the future King Alfred (Alfred the Great) soon arrived to besiege Nottingham, and the Danes withdrew to York without a fight. They remained at York for about a year. In 869 they recrossed Mercia and returned to East Anglia, where they defeated King Edmund in battle.
- Ivar the Boneless was a Viking chieftain who was said to be the son of the Danish king Ragnar Lothbrok. Ivar invaded England not to plunder, as was...
- Ivar the Boneless and his brothers invaded England in 865 with a large Viking force and captured York, the capital of the kingdom of Northumbria, i...
- The origin of the epithet “the Boneless” is unknown. It possibly refers to an inability to walk or to a skeletal condition such as osteogenesis imp...
Hace 4 días · Alfred the Great of Wessex styled himself King of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886. In 886/887 Æthelred married Alfred's daughter Æthelflæd. On Alfred's death in 899, his son Edward the Elder succeeded him.
- Anglo-Saxon, Angle, Saxon
Hace 4 días · Cnut (/ k ə ˈ nj uː t /; Old Norse: Knútr Old Norse pronunciation:; c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035.
Hace 4 días · Alfred the Great (871–99) and his son Edward the Elder (899–924), along with the latter’s sister Æthelflæd (d. 918) and her husband Æthelred (d. 911), rulers of the Mercians, set the scene for Æthelstan’s coup de grace by seizing from Viking rulers all territory up to the Humber in the years down to 924.
