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    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...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Osferth or Osferd or Osfrith (fl. c. 885 to c. 934) was described by Alfred the Great in his will as a "kinsman". Osferth witnessed royal charters from 898...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    as one of the most successful West Saxon kings, who laid the foundations for the success of his son, Alfred the Great. At the beginning of the 9th century...
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    he acknowledged the lordship of King Alfred the Great of Wessex. This alliance was cemented by the marriage of Æthelred to Alfred's daughter Æthelflæd...
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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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    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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    of the Chronicle was created late in the ninth century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great (r. 871–899). Its content, which incorporated...
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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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    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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  • 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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    in Europe during the medieval and early modern colonial periods. Beginning in the year 886 Alfred the Great reoccupied London from the Danish Vikings and...
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