attempted to restore the House of Wessex to the throne of England. Alfred Ætheling landed on the coast of Sussex with a Norman mercenary body guard and...

Ætheling (/ˈæθəlɪŋ/; also spelt aetheling, atheling or etheling) was an Old English term (æþeling) used in Anglo-Saxon England to designate princes of...

of Exeter. Æthelred and Emma had two sons, Edward the Confessor and Alfred Ætheling, and a daughter, Goda of England (or Godgifu). When King Sweyn Forkbeard...

an ætheling – a prince eligible for the throne. But after Ecgberht's reign, descent from Cerdic was no longer sufficient to make a man an ætheling. When...

are: Æthelstan Ætheling (died 1014); Ecgberht Ætheling (died c. 1005); Edmund Ironside (King of England, died 1016); Eadred Ætheling (died before 1013);...

death in 899, Æthelwold disputed the throne with Alfred's son, Edward the Elder. As senior ætheling (prince of the royal dynasty eligible for kingship)...

should act as English regent for these two half-brothers. In 1036 Alfred Ætheling, younger son of Emma of Normandy and Æthelred the Unready, attempted...

title Ætheling. Also spelt Æþeling, Aetheling, Atheling, or Etheling. The title Ætheling denotes a prince eligible for the throne. "Edgar Ætheling". Oxford...

Emma's youngest son, Alfred Aetheling, by suggesting that she was responsible for sending a forged letter to Normandy inviting Alfred to England. The Encomium...

of Edmund Ironside, but "ætheling" means son of a king and other Edmunds were called "Ætheling", or occasionally "the Ætheling", including Æthelred the...

Edward the Exile (1016 – 19 April 1057), also called Edward Ætheling, was the son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth. He spent most of his life in...

of English noblemen whom he considered suspect. Æthelred's son Eadwig Ætheling fled from England but was killed on Cnut's orders. Edmund Ironside's sons...

Judith of Brittany Svein Knutsson Harold Harefoot Gunhilda of Denmark Alfred Ætheling Edmund Ironside Ealdgyth Robert I of Normandy Herleva Gytha Thorkelsdóttir...

The Encomium Emmae Reginae also describes Edward the Confessor and Alfred Aetheling as the sons of Canute, though the modern term would be step-sons. Harold...

until his death in 1035. After his death another of Æthelred's sons, Alfred Aetheling, tried to retake the English throne, but he was betrayed and captured...

2022. Chamberlin 1982, pp. 53–56 Lawson, M. K. (23 September 2004). "Alfred Ætheling". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University...

Sweden. Alfred the Great (848/849–899), 9th-century king of Wessex Alfred Aetheling (c. 1012–1036), son of King Ethelred II of England Alfred, Duke of...

Svein Knutsson of Norway and King Harold Harefoot of England, and Alfred Aetheling , Edward the Confessor and Godgifu (daughter of Æthelred the Unready)...

know so much due to Alfred's efforts to portray his son as the most throneworthy ætheling. Æthelhelm is recorded only in Alfred's will of the mid-880s...

Barbara Yorke, 'Edward as Ætheling', in N. J. Higham & D. H. Hill eds, Edward the Elder 899–924, Routledge, 2001, p. 30 King Alfred's Will in Simon Keynes...

Frankis, John (1998–2001). "From saint's life to saga: The fatal walk of Alfred Ætheling, Saint Amphibalus, and the Viking bróðir" (PDF). Saga-Book. XXV: 132–133...

1037 — although not without becoming involved in the 1036 murder of Alfred Aetheling, half-brother of Harthacnut and younger brother of the later King Edward...

dying on 8 June 1042. He was succeeded by the exiled English ætheling Edward. As an ætheling, a royal prince with a present or likely future claim on the...

is the family tree for monarchs of England (and Wales after 1282) from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth I of England. The House of Wessex family tree precedes...

invader, Cnut the Great. Her children included Edward the Confessor, Alfred Aetheling and with Cnut, Harthacnut, so completing a major link between the Duke...

Normans under William the Conqueror. Edward's young great-nephew Edgar Ætheling of the House of Wessex was proclaimed king after the Battle of Hastings...

an ætheling according to Dumville's definition, but in the view of Pauline Stafford, only the son of a present or former king could be an ætheling, and...

into the New Minster Liber Vitae, fol. 9v., with the designation clito "ætheling", but if so, he seems to be mistaken for a son of Edward. William tells...

Revolt was an 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...

Anglo-Saxon attempts to restore native rule in the person of Edgar the Ætheling, a grandson of Edmund Ironside who had originally been passed over in favour...