Wessex, Aethelwulf
Birth Name | Wessex, Aethelwulf |
Gender | male |
Age at Death | 52 years, 12 days |
Narrative
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Aethelwulf, also spelled ETHELWULF (d. 858), Anglo-Saxon king in England, the father of King Alfred the Great. As ruler of the West Saxons from 839 to 856, he allied his kingdom of Wessex with Mercia and thereby withstood invasions by Danish
Vikings.
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The son of the great West Saxon king Egbert (ruled 802-839), Aethelwulf ascended the throne four years after the Danes had begun large-scale raids on the English coast. In 851 he scored a major victory over a large Danish army at a place called
Aclea in Surrey. Aethelwulf then married his daughter to the Mercian king Burgred (853), and in 856 he himself married the daughter of Charles II the Bald, king of the West Franks. Aethelwulf was deposed by a rival faction upon his return from
a pilgrimage to Rome in 856, but he continued to rule Kent and several other eastern provinces until his death. In addition to Alfred the Great (ruled 871-899), three of Aethelwulf's other sons became kings of Wessex. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]
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# Note: Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
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# Note: Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
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Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Sources |
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Birth | 806 | Wessex, England | 1 | |
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Death | 858-01-13 | England | ||
Age: 52y |
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Burial | Winchester Cathedral, London, England | Burial | 1 | |
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Parents
Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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Father | Wessex, Ecgbert III | 775 | 839-02-04 | |
Mother | Of Wessex, Redburga | 788 | 840 | |
Wessex, Aethelwulf | 806 | 858-01-13 |
Families
Family of Wessex, Aethelwulf and of the Isle of Wight, Osburga |
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Unknown | Partner | of the Isle of Wight, Osburga ( * 810 + 853 ) | ||||||||||||
Children |
Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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King of Wessex, Aethelred I | 840 | 871-04-23 |
England, Alfred (The Great) | 848 | 899-10-26 |
Wessex, Judith | 854 |