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Æthelweard (also Ethelward; d. c. 998) was an ealdorman and the author of a Latin version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle known as the Chronicon Æthelweardi. He was a kinsman of the royal family, being a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred I of Wessex, the elder brother of Alfred the Great .
Æthelweard (died 920 or 922) was the younger son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith . He was born about 880. [1] That he was Alfred's younger son by Ealhswith is stated by Asser in his biography of the king ( c. 893). [2] Asser also provides valuable detail on the boy's upbringing.
Aethelweard (died 998?) was an English chronicler and likely ealderman of the western provinces (probably the whole of Wessex), a descendant of King Alfred’s brother Aethelred. He wrote, in elaborate and peculiar Latin, a chronicle for his continental kinswoman, Matilda, abbess of Essen.
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Apr 18, 2024 · Wessex, England: Death: circa 998 (69-87) Sussex, England Immediate Family: Son of Ædric, Earl of Wessex and Æthelgifu Husband of Æthelflaed Father of Æthelmaer Brother of Ælfgifu and Ælfweard. Occupation: Ealdorman of Wessex: Managed by: Lynn Diane Riemann: Last Updated: today
When Aethelwerd "The Historian" of Wessex was born in 0935, in Wessex, his father, Edrikas Vesekso Grafas, was 19 and his mother, Queen Æthelgifu of France, was 20. He married Æthelflæda of Shaftesbury. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in 0998, in Sussex, England, at the age of 63.
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Dec 18, 2021 · Æthelweard Wessex is a member of the House of Wessex. Biography. Æthelweard was a son of Alfred the Great and Ealhswith. [1] [2] [3] [4] His birth date is uncertain, but Asser lists him as the last of the children of King Alfred who survived childhood [2] and it may have been about 880. [3]
By the end of the 910s he ruled Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia, and only Northumbria remained under Viking rule. In 924 he faced a Mercian and Welsh revolt at Chester, and after putting it down he died at Farndon in Cheshire on 17 July 924. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Æthelstan.
