Person:Ælfred of Wessex (1)

     
Ælfred "the Great" of Wessex, King of the West Saxons
m. Est 832
  1. Æthelbald of WessexEst 835 - 860
  2. Æthelswith of WessexEst 840 - 888
  3. Æthelred I of WessexEst 845 - 871
  4. Ælfred "the Great" of Wessex, King of the West Saxons849 - 899
  • HÆlfred "the Great" of Wessex, King of the West Saxons849 - 899
  • WEalhswith _____ - 902
m. 868
  1. Æthelflæd _____Abt 870 - 918
  2. Edward I "the Elder" of WessexAbt 872 - 924
  3. Æthelgifu _____ - Abt 896
  4. Ælfthryth of WessexAbt 877 - 929
  5. Æthelwærd _____Abt 880 - 922
Facts and Events
Name[20] Ælfred "the Great" of Wessex, King of the West Saxons
Gender Male
Birth[1][22] 849 Wantage, Berkshire, EnglandHouse of Wessex
Marriage 868 Mercia, Englandto Ealhswith _____
Will[23]
Title (nobility)? 23 Apr 0871 to King of Wessex
Death[1][20] 26 Oct 899 Winchester, Hampshire, England
Alt Death[24] VII Kal. Nov 0901
Burial? Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, EnglandHyde Abbey - Winchester Cathedral
Reference Number[1] Q83476?
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Alfred the Great (alt. Ælfred 848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 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 Æthelred, reigned in turn before him. Under Alfred's rule, considerable administrative and military reforms were introduced, prompting lasting change in England.

After ascending the throne, Alfred spent several years fighting Viking invasions. He won a decisive victory in the Battle of Edington in 878 and made an agreement with the Vikings, dividing England between Anglo-Saxon territory and the Viking-ruled Danelaw, composed of northern England, the north-east Midlands and East Anglia. Alfred also oversaw the conversion of Viking leader Guthrum to Christianity. He defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, becoming the dominant ruler in England. Details of his life are described in a work by 9th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.

Alfred had a reputation as a learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education, proposing that primary education be conducted in English, rather than Latin, and improving the legal system and military structure and his people's quality of life. He was given the epithet "the Great" in the 16th century.

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References
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  2.   Brian Tompsett, (i)Directory of Royal Genealogy Data(/i) (United Kingdom: University of Hull,).
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  10.   Anderson's Royal Genealogies, Eng. 130, p. 738.
  11.   The Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21.
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  13.   (MCS2)The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 2nd ed
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  14.   (EA)Encyclopedia Americana, 1951
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  15.   Weis, Frederick Lewis; Walter Lee Sheppard; and David Faris. Ancestral roots of certain American colonists, who came to America before 1700: the lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and some of their descendants. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 7th Edition c1992)
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    b 849

  19.   Ælfræd, King of Wessex, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  20. 20.0 20.1 Ælfred "the Great", in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.

    Baldwin reviews the evidence concerning Ælfred's date of death, concluding that " his date of death can be placed on 26 October 899 with confidence."

  21.   Alfred 8 (Male), in The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
  22. Asser, and William Henry (ed.) Stevenson. Asser's Life of King Alfred. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904)
    p. 1.

    "Anno Dominicae Incarnationis DCCCXLIX natus est Ælfred, Angul-Saxonum rex, in villa regia, quae dicitur Uuanating, in illa paga, quae nominatur Berrocscire"

  23. Thorpe, Benjamin. Diplomatarium anglicum aevi saxonici. (London: Macmillan & Co, 1865)
    pp. 484-492.

    Ælfred's will is given here in the original Old English with a facing modern English translation.

  24. Earle, John (ed.), and Charles (ed.) Plummer. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892)
    pp. 42-43.

    Baldwin, cited above, explains how this incorrect date came to be.