Edward the Elder (870s? – 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924. He was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his...
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Ælfflæd (fl. early 10th century) was the second wife of the English king Edward the Elder. Ælfflæd was the daughter of an ealdorman Æthelhelm, probably...
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his mother married Cnut. In the same year, Cnut had Edward's last surviving elder half-brother, Eadwig, executed. Edward spent a quarter of a century...
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conquered by the Danes from southern Scandinavia. His son Edward the Elder conquered the eastern Danelaw, but Edward's son Æthelstan became the first king...
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Æthelstan (redirect from Aethelstan the Glorious)
was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first...
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Edward Elder may refer to: Edward Elder (headmaster) (1812–1858), English teacher Edward the Elder (c. 874-7 – 924), English king All pages with titles...
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Æthelflæd (redirect from Æðelflæd, Lady of the Mercians)
fighting off renewed Viking attacks in the 890s, together with Æthelflæd's brother, the future King Edward the Elder. Æthelred and Æthelflæd fortified Worcester...
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Edmund I (redirect from Edmund the Elder)
26 May 946) was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen...
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Elizabeth. This decision was disputed following Edward's death, and Jane was deposed by Mary - the elder of the two half-sisters - nine days after becoming...
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Ealhswith (redirect from Ealhswith of the Gaini)
Edward the Elder who succeeded King Alfred to the Anglo-Saxon throne. Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucel, Ealdorman of the Gaini, which...
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(/ˈælfwɔːrd/; c. 902 – 2 August 924) was the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife Ælfflæd. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply states...
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Ælfwynn (redirect from Ælfwynn, Lady of the Mercians)
much of the decade after her birth on campaign with his father-in-law King Alfred and brother-in-law Edward Ætheling (later King Edward the Elder). By 902...
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ISBN 978-1-4426-4758-9. Miller, Sean (2011). "Edward [called Edward the Elder] (870s?–924), king of the Anglo-Saxons". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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Their children were Æthelflæd, who married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians; Edward the Elder, Alfred's successor as king; Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury;...
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Danelaw (redirect from History of the Danelaw)
served as his godfather. Edward the Elder and his sister, Æthelflæd, the Lady of the Mercians, conquered Danish territories in the Midlands and East Anglia...
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was the younger son of King Edward the Elder and Ælfflæd, his second wife. He drowned at sea in circumstances which are unclear. Edward the Elder died...
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Eadred (redirect from Eadred the Weak)
23 November 955) was King of the English from 26 May 946 until his death in 955. He was the younger son of Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu,...
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Eadwig (redirect from Edwy the Fair)
died in 899 and was succeeded by his son, Edward the Elder. In the 910s, Edward and Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, who was his sister and Æthelred's...
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English and British royal mistresses (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
King Alfred. Edward the Elder reportedly took Ecgwynn as his royal mistress, and she gave birth to his only son and heir, Æthelstan. The suggestion that...
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Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United...
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Edgar, King of England (redirect from Edgar the Peaceful, King of the English)
the mid-950s and the early 980s. After his death the throne was disputed between the supporters of his two surviving sons; the elder one, Edward the Martyr...
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figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487. Edward inherited...
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Æthelred I of Wessex (redirect from Æthelred, King of the West Saxons)
his son, Edward the Elder, and Æthelwold unsuccessfully disputed the throne with him. Æthelred's accession coincided with the arrival of the Viking Great...
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Ecgwynn (category Wives of Edward the Elder)
"sword joy"; fl. 890s), was the first consort of Edward the Elder, later King of the English (reigned 899–924), by whom she bore the future King Æthelstan (r...
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Kingdom of England (redirect from The Kingdom of England)
descendants Edward the Elder (reigned 899–924) and Æthelstan (reigned 924–939) to form the Kingdom of the English. In 927, Æthelstan conquered the last remaining...
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Æthelwold's Revolt (section The Battle of the Holme)
attempt by Æthelwold ætheling to seize the Anglo-Saxon throne from Edward the Elder after the death of Alfred the Great in 899. It ended when Æthelwold...
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Alfred's son, Edward the Elder. As senior ætheling (prince of the royal dynasty eligible for kingship), Æthelwold had a strong claim to the throne. He attempted...
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Viking army at the Battle of Buttington. He spent the next three years fighting them alongside Alfred's son, the future King Edward the Elder. At some time...
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Edward Strong the Elder (1652–1724) and Edward Strong the Younger (1676–1741) were a father and son pair of British sculptors mainly working in London...
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and Ned. Edward the Elder (c. 874–924), the son of Alfred the Great Edward the Martyr (c. 962–978), English king and Christian martyr Edward the Confessor...
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