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10 hours ago · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c.849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 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.
1 day ago · Here are 10 fascinating facts that shed light on the life and accomplishments of this remarkable ruler: 1. An Unlikely King. As the youngest of five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, Alfred was never expected to become king. However, fate intervened: Alfred‘s father and four elder brothers all died within a span of 20 years.
5 days ago · The Benedictine nunnery of Shaftesbury is generally, though not universally, ascribed to the foundation of Alfred the Great about the year 888; the king, by his charter in honour of God the Blessed Virgin and all the saints, conferring on the nunnery, over which his daughter Elfgiva, Æthelgeofu or Algiva, presided as abbess, 100 hides of land ...
5 days ago · The legend of the foundation of St. Albans Abbey has been graphically written by Matthew Paris, a 13th-century monk of the abbey. According to his account Offa II, King of the Mercians, desired to found a monastery in atonement for the murder by Quendreda, his queen, of Ethelbert, King of the East Angles, a suitor for the hand of their daughter.
5 days ago · The ragged county boundary and the ambiguous allegiances of its bordering parishes attest to this, as do the grantors of its estates – Burgred and Ecgfrith, Mercian kings; Caedwalla, Æthelwulf and Alfred of Wessex; and Baldred, probably a client-king of Wessex.
2 days ago · Archaeologists have rediscovered the remains of the reliquary of St Swithun in a crypt beneath Stavanger Cathedral. St Swithun was an Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester (England), raised to the position by Æthelwulf, King of Wessex. His importance in the church is overshadowed by his reputation for posthumous miracle-working, the most famous ...
3 days ago · Edgar (or Eadgar; [1] c. 944 – 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother's death. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu.
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