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Hace 2 días · Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was Consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840, until his death in 1861.
- 10 February 1840 – 14 December 1861
- 14 December 1861 (aged 42), Windsor Castle, England
Hace 1 día · Osburh. 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. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and ...
- 23 April 871 – c. 886
- Osburh
Hace 2 días · Cnut ( / kəˈnjuːt /; [3] Old Norse: Knútr Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈknuːtr]; [a] c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, [4] [5] [6] was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. [1] .
Hace 12 horas · Sweyn Forkbeard was king of England for five weeks, then died. But Sweyn’s son—Harald Bluetooth’s grandson—provides us with the final twist in this Viking-turned-Anglo-Saxon saga. His name was Cnut, and he was proclaimed king of England in 1016.
Hace 2 días · A Prince Thrust Into Kingship When Alfred was born, it was unlikely that he would take the throne. Being the seventh son of a King whose power is not divinely granted and is not passed down through lineage but is democratically elected by a council of elders, during a time of great turmoil, war, subterfuge and treachery is not a winning recipe for success. So perhaps Alfred can be somewhat ...
Hace 5 días · The study rejects the premise that Alfred aimed to rule ‘a kingdom coterminous with the area inhabited by the English’ (p. 206) or that the early Cerdicings’ ambitions ‘were focused on the creation of a kingdom with bounds based on those of existing English habitation’ (p. 209).
Hace 4 días · In an 1862 referendum, nearly 40 years after the death of Byron, 95 per cent of Greeks even voted in favour of installing Queen Victoria’s second son Prince Alfred as their monarch, after a ...
