Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrǣd [ˈæɫvˌræːd]; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from...
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Alfred the Great is a 1969 British epic historical drama film which portrays Alfred the Great's struggle to defend the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex from...
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refers to the Great Heathen Army as mycel hæþen here. Sturdy. Alfred the Great. p. 111 Smyth. King Alfred the Great. p. 21 Abels. Alfred the Great: War. Kingship...
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Prince Alfred of Great Britain (22 September 1780 – 20 August 1782) was the fourteenth child and ninth and youngest son of King George III and his queen...
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said that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the important Battle of Edington (historically known as the battle of...
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Alfred the Great (c. 849–899) was an English king. Alfred the Great may also refer to: Alfred the Great (play), an 1831 play by James Sheridan Knowles...
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Alfred the Great was an Anglo-Saxon king (871–899) of Wessex, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed from 519 to 927 south of the river Thames in England...
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Guthrum (redirect from Guthrum the Old)
of Mercia, and overran Alfred the Great's Wessex, but were ultimately defeated by Alfred at the Battle of Edington in 878. The Danes retreated to their...
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Statue of Alfred the Great may refer to: Statue of Alfred the Great, Pewsey Statue of Alfred the Great, Southwark Statue of Alfred the Great, Wantage Statue...
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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 wife...
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List of English monarchs (redirect from Monarchs of England and Great Britain)
kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which...
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Æthelstan (redirect from Aethelstan the Glorious)
Alfred the Great, and achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Edington. Alfred and the Viking leader Guthrum agreed on a division that gave the Anglo-Saxons...
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Wessex (redirect from The Kingdom of Wessex)
Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse...
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The Statue of Alfred the Great is located in the centre of Winchester, England. It was commissioned in 1899 as part of the celebrations of the millennium...
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Saint Alfred may refer to: Saint-Alfred, Quebec, municipality in Canada Alfred the Great (846-899), English king venerated as a saint in some Christian...
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Battle of Edington (redirect from The Battle of Edington)
At the Battle of Edington, an army of the kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by the Dane Guthrum sometime between...
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Æthelred I of Wessex (redirect from Æthelred, King of the West Saxons)
followed by his youngest brother, Alfred the Great. Æthelred had two sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold, who were passed over for the kingship on their father's death...
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Australia Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons...
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel (/noʊˈbɛl/ noh-BEL, Swedish: [ˈǎlfrɛd nʊˈbɛlː] ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and...
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in the same year. Æthelbald was the second son of King Æthelwulf and probably of his first wife Osburh, who was the mother of Alfred the Great. As Æthelstan...
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March 2022. It premiered on Netflix on 14 April 2023. The main events of the reign of Alfred the Great and his heirs are well recorded, and a number of men...
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(also Osburga Oslacsdotter) was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of King Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser, described her...
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of the most successful West Saxon kings, who laid the foundations for the success of his youngest son, Alfred the Great. At the beginning of the 9th...
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united for the first time. He appears to have been on good terms with his younger brothers, the future kings Æthelred I and Alfred the Great. The kingdom...
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House of Wessex (redirect from Legacy of the House of Wessex)
in southern England after the accession of King Ecgberht in 802. Alfred the Great saved England from Viking conquest in the late ninth century and his...
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Cnut (redirect from Cnut the Great)
with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three...
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Alfred the Great is an 1831 historical play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. It portrays the life of the Anglo-Saxon King Alfred the Great...
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proceeded with the landing invasion and achieved] the victory." Ivar the Boneless is a minor character in the 1969 film Alfred the Great, portrayed as...
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one of the most popular exhibits at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It has been dated to the late 9th century, in the reign of Alfred the Great, and is...
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of Alfred the Great, which dates to 893. A late eleventh or early twelfth century Canterbury chronicler identified the father of Ecgberht with the Ealhmund...
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