Æthelwulf, King of England

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• History: birth to death
• Reign: From 839 to 856; King of England

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History:
In 839, he visited Rome.

In 839, he was crowned King of England and reigned until 858.

On 1 October 856, he abdicated in favor of his son Æthelbald after returning from a lengthy pilgrimage.

Æthelwulf married Osburh about 830. Osburh (daughter of Oslac, the Royal Cup-Bearer) was born about 810 in Kingdom of Wessex, England; died after 876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Æthelwulf married Judith of France, Princess of France on 1 Oct 856 in Verberie, Hauts-de-France, France. Judith (daughter of Charles II "the Bald", Holy Roman Emperor and King of France and Ermentrude of Orléans) was born about 846 in France; died after 870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: He was crowned King of England in 856.
• Reign: From 856 to 860; King of England

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Æthelbald married Judith of France, Princess of France in 860. Judith (daughter of Charles II "the Bald", Holy Roman Emperor and King of France and Ermentrude of Orléans) was born about 846 in France; died after 870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eticho, Count in the Breisgau and Ammergau. Eticho (son of Welf I, Count in the Argengau and the Linzgau and Heilwig) died about 910 in Ettal Abbey, Ettal, Bavaria, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: lifespan
• Reign: From 860 to 866; King of England

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In 860, he was crowned the King of England.

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• History: lifespan
• Reign: From 866 to 872; King of England

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History:
In 866, he was crowned the King of England.

Family/Spouse: Wulfthryth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Crowned: 871, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England; In 871, he was crowned King of England in Winchester Cathedral.
• Reign: From 871 to 899; King of England
• Military: From 878 to 886; The Danes invaded England and threatened Wessex in 878. After a campaign of guerrilla warfare, Alfred defeated the Danes at Edington in 878. Once his victory had been established, he allowed the Danes to keep their conquests in Mercia and East Anglica provided that their King, Guthrum, converted to Christianity. To keep the coasts safe, he built a navy and used it, and a chain of fortifications, to thwart the Danes in 885 to 886 and 892 to 896. In 886, he captured London, thus gaining control over all of England save for the Dane Law.

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Alfred married Ealhswith of Mercia in 868 in England. Ealhswith (daughter of Æthelred Mucil, Earldorman of Gainsborough and Eadburh of Mercia) was born about 852 in Kingdom of Mercia; died in 904 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: lifespan; She became a nun in widowhood.

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Died:
She died on a pilgrimage to Rome.

Family/Spouse: Burghræd, King of Mercia . Burghræd died in 874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He founded the Monastery at Altdorf.

Henry married Beata von Hohenwarth after 975 in Hohenwart, Bavaria, Germany. Beata (daughter of Ratpot I) died after 975 in Hohenwart, Bavaria, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: lifespan; In 899, he claimed the throne when King Edward the Elder died.

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Died:
He was killed in battle. His estates were forfeited to the crown.

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• History: He held Compton and Crondool, probably receiving them from King Alfred. He also held Aldingbourn. In 887, he took the alms of the king and the West Saxons to Rome. He was one of the three military leaders who defeated the Danes at Buttington in 894.

Family/Spouse: Æthelgyth of Mercia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Æthelflæd married Æthelred II, Ealdorman of Mercia between 882 and 887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• General Information: Edward was Bretwala, King of Kings. He was also the King of Wessex.
• Military: From 899 to 902; Alfred died on 26 October 899 and Edward succeeded to the throne, but Æthelwold disputed the succession. He seized the royal estates of Wimborne, symbolically important as the place where his father was buried, and Christchurch, both in Dorset. Edward marched with his army to the nearby Iron Age hillfort at Badbury Rings. Æthelwold declared that he would live or die at Wimborne, but then left in the night and rode to Northumbria, where the Danes accepted him as king. In 901, Æthelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and the following year he persuaded the East Anglian Danes to invade English Mercia and northern Wessex, where his army looted and then returned home. Edward retaliated by ravaging East Anglia, but when he retreated the men of Kent disobeyed the order to retire, and were intercepted by the Danish army. The two sides met at the Battle of the Holme (perhaps Holme in Huntingdonshire) on 13 December 902. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Danes "kept the place of slaughter", meaning that they won the battle, but they suffered heavy losses, including Æthelwold and a King Eohric, possibly of the East Anglian Danes. Kentish losses included Sigehelm, ealdorman of Kent and father of Edward's third wife, Eadgifu. Æthelwold's death ended the threat to Edward's throne.
• Reign: From 900 to 924; King of England
• Crowned: 8 Jun 900, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England; He was crowned.
• Military: 918; Edward defeated the Danes in 918, taking East Anglia. He conquered Mercia the same year, and Northumbria in 920.
• Last Full Review: 2 May 2021

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Death: Sewell states he died 17 June 924 in Farndon-on-Dee, England.

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He was crowned the King of England or Bretwala, that is King of Kings.

Died:
He died while attempting to put down a rebellion by Mercian and Cambrian dissidents.

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He was buried in the New Minster, a monastery in Winchester whose construction he had ordered in 901. In 1110, his remains were reinterred at Hyde Abbey, but the grave was disturbed during the construction of a prison in 1788 and his bones were lost.

Edward married Ecgwynn about 893. Ecgwynn died in 901 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Ælfflæd about 899. Ælfflæd (daughter of Æthelhelm, Ealdorman of Wiltshire and Æthelgyth of Mercia) was born about 878 in Kingdom of Wessex, England; died in 920 in England; was buried in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Eadgifu of Kent in 919 in Berkshire, England. Eadgifu (daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent) was born about 896 in Kingdom of Kent; died on 25 Aug 968 in England; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ælfthryth married Baldwin II "the Bald", Count of Flanders and Artois in 884. Baldwin (son of Baldwin I "Bras de Fer", Count of Flanders and Judith of France, Princess of France) was born between 863 and 865 in Flanders, Belgium; died on 2 Jan 918 in Flanders, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Living: 950

Family/Spouse: Siburgis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: He held Risborough, Farnborough, and Wrington.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Charter/Grant/Gift: 901; She was described as conjux regis in a charter of 901.
• Last Full Review: 2 May 2021

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Ælfflæd married Edward "the Elder", King of England about 899. Edward (son of Alfred "the Great", King of England and Ealhswith of Mercia) was born in 875 in Kingdom of Wessex, England; died on 17 Jul 924 in Farndon, Cheshire, England; was buried in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Charter/Grant/Gift: About 904; The first contemporary written evidence of Ælfwynn is dated to around 904, a charter recording the lease of land by Æthelred and Æthelflæd for the traditional three lives—those of Æthelred, Æthelflæd and Ælfwynn—in and around Worcester from Bishop Waerferth and the monks and clerics of Worcester Cathedral.
• Offices Held: From 12 June 918 to Dec 1918; When her mother died on 12 June 918, she became the ruler of Mercia, but only until December. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Here also the daughter of Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, was deprived of all control in Mercia, and was led into Wessex three weeks before Christmas. by Edward the Elder. Her accession was the only example of rule passing from one woman to another in the early medieval period in the British Isles.
• Miscellaneous: 919; There is no certain record of Ælfwynn after her removal from power. In Maggie Bailey's view, she probably entered holy orders. It is possible that she is the religious woman named Ælfwynn who is the beneficiary of charter S 535 dated 948 in the reign of King Eadred. Shashi Jayakumar suggests that she may have been the Ælfwynn who was wife of Æthelstan Half-King and foster-mother of the future King Edgar
• Last Full Review: 22 Nov 2021

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Birth:
Her birth was a difficult one, and that this led her mother to abstain from further sexual relations.

Family/Spouse: Edulph. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: In 924, he was crowned King of England
• Reign: From 924 to 939; King of England

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• Religion: say 928; After she became a widow, she took the veil at Polesworth Abby. She later transferred to Tamworth Abbey in Glocestershire, where she was elected Abbess. Her feast day is July ^15th.

Edith married Sihtric, Viking King of York in 926. Sihtric died in 927. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reign: From 924 to 924; King of England

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Died:
He was drowned at sea.

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• Religion: Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire, England; She was a lay sister at Wilton Abbey.

Family/Spouse: Frederuna. Frederuna died on 10 Feb 917. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eadgifu married Charles III "the Simple", King of France in 918/19. Charles (son of Louis II "the Stammerer", Holy Roman Emperor and Adelaide of Paris) was born on 17 Sep 879; died on 7 Oct 929 in Péronne, Hauts-de-France, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint Fursy, Péronne, Hauts-de-France, France (not found). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Heribert, Count of Meaux and Troyes . Heribert died on 980 - 984. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was a nun at Wilton Abbey.

Eadhilda married Hugh Magnus "the White", Duke of France and Normandy in 926. Hugh (son of Robert I, Duke of France and Beatrice de Vermandois) was born about 895; died on 16 Jun 956 in Dourdan, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Basilica of Saint-Denis, St. Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her name is also spelt Edith.

Eadgyth married Otto I "the Great", Holy Roman Emperor in 929/30. Otto (son of Henry I "the Fowler", Holy Roman Emperor and Saint Mechtilde von Ringelheim) was born on 23 Nov 912; died on 7 May 973 in Memleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: She was said to have married "a prince near the Alps", likely Boleslaw II "the Pious", Duke of Bohemia or perhaps Conrad "the Pacific", King of Burgundy.

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She was said to have married "a prince near the Alps", likely Boleslaw II "the Pious", Duke of Bohemia or perhaps Conrad "the Pacific", King of Burgundy.

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• History: She was a nun in Winchester, England.

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• Reign: From 939 to 946; King of England

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History:
In 940, he became the King of England.

Edmund defeated two Norse kings in Northumbria and also defeated the Britons in Strathclyde who had been supporting the Norsemen. He then gave Strathclyde to King Malcolm I of Scotland in return for a treaty of alliance. This ensured a half century of peace between Scotland and Saxon England.

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He was murdered by an outlaw named Leolf who stabbed him to death at a banquet to St.Augustin.

Family/Spouse: Saint Ælfgifu. Ælfgifu died in 944 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Æthelfæd of Domerham. Æthelfæd died after 975. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reign: From 946 to 955; King of England
• History: birth - 955

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In 946, he was crowned the King of England.

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She was a nun at St. Mary's Abbey, also known as the Nunnaminster.

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Parentage: He may have been an illegitimate son of King Edward by another mother.

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• General Information: He was also known as Arnold I "the Great."
• Military: say 938; He waged a war in the late 930's against William Longsword, the Duke of Normandy. Some sources state that a peace conference was held in December 942, and that Arnolph arranged for the murder of William Longsword at that time. Other sources state that "Arnolph waged war against William of Normandy, whom he defeated and slew."

Arnold married Adelaide de Vermandois in 934. Adelaide (daughter of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois and Troyes and Hildebrande of Neustria, Princess of the West Franks) was born about 915; died in 960 in Bruges, Flanders, Belguim. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: In 918, he became the Count of Boulgne.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]