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Alfred the Great (848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to c. 886 and King of the Anglo-Saxons from c. 886 to 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. His father died when he was young, and three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and Æthelred, reigned in turn before him.
Alfred the Great
Alfred king of Wessex London 880.jpg
A coin of Alfred, king of Wessex, London, 880 (based upon a Roman model)
King of the West Saxons
Reign
April 871 – c. 886
Predecessor
Æthelred I
King of the Anglo-Saxons
Reign
c. 886 – 26 October 899
Successor
Edward the Elder
Born
848-49
Wantage, Berkshire[a]
Died
26 October 899 (aged 50 or 51)
Burial
c. 1100
Hyde Abbey, Winchester, Hampshire, now lost
Spouse
Ealhswith
Issue
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians
Edward the Elder
Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury
Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders
Æthelweard of Wessex
House
Wessex
Father
Æthelwulf, King of Wessex
Mother
Osburh
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, creating what was known as the Danelaw in the North of England. 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.[1] 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 Anglo-Saxon 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" during and after the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and, alongside the Danish Cnut the Great, remains the only king of England to be given such a name.
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Alfred the Great (848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to c. 886 and King of the Anglo-Saxons from c. 886 to 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. His father died when he was young, and three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and Æthelred, reigned in turn before him.
Alfred the Great
Alfred king of Wessex London 880.jpg
A coin of Alfred, king of Wessex, London, 880 (based upon a Roman model)
King of the West Saxons
Reign
April 871 – c. 886
Predecessor
Æthelred I
King of the Anglo-Saxons
Reign
c. 886 – 26 October 899
Successor
Edward the Elder
Born
848-49
Wantage, Berkshire[a]
Died
26 October 899 (aged 50 or 51)
Burial
c. 1100
Hyde Abbey, Winchester, Hampshire, now lost
Spouse
Ealhswith
Issue
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians
Edward the Elder
Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury
Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders
Æthelweard of Wessex
House
Wessex
Father
Æthelwulf, King of Wessex
Mother
Osburh
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, creating what was known as the Danelaw in the North of England. 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.[1] 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 Anglo-Saxon 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" during and after the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and, alongside the Danish Cnut the Great, remains the only king of England to be given such a name.
Family Edit
Further information: House of Wessex family tree
Alfred was a son of Æthelwulf King of Wessex and his wife, Osburh.[2] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire[b] (which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly)." This date has been accepted by the editors of Asser's biography, Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge,[4] and by other historians such as David Dumville and Richard Huscroft.[5] However, West Saxon genealogical lists state that Alfred was 23 when he became king in April 871, implying that he was born between April 847 and April 848.[6] This dating is adopted in the biography of Alfred by Alfred Smyth, who regards Asser's biography as fraudulent,[7] an allegation which is rejected by other historians.[8] Richard Abels in his biography discusses both sources but does not decide between them and dates Alfred's birth as 847/49, while Patrick Wormald in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article dates it 848/9.[9][c]
He was the youngest of six children. His eldest brother, Æthelstan, was old enough to be appointed sub-king of Kent in 839, almost ten years before Alfred was born. He died in the early 850s. Alfred's next three brothers were successively kings of Wessex. Æthelbald (858-860) and Æthelberht (860-865) were also much older than Alfred, but Æthelred (865-871) was only a year or two older. Alfred's only known sister, Æthelswith, married Burgred, king of the midland kingdom of Mercia, in 853. Most historians think that Osburh was the mother of all Æthelwulf's children, but some suggest that the older ones were born to an unrecorded first wife. Osburh was descended from the rulers of the Isle of Wight. She was described by Alfred's biographer, Asser, as "a most religious woman, noble by temperament and noble by birth". She died by 856, when Æthelwulf married Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, King of West Francia.[11]
In 868, Alfred married Ealhswith, daughter of the Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucel, ealdorman of the Gaini, and his wife Eadburh, who was of royal Mercian descent.[12][d] Their children were Æthelflæd, who married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians; Edward the Elder, his successor as king; Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury; Ælfthryth, who married Baldwin, count of Flanders; and Æthelweard.[14]