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    Æthelwulf (Old English: [ˈæðelwuɫf]; Old English for "Noble Wolf"; died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. In 825, his father, King Ecgberht...
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  • the free dictionary. Æthelwulf (died 858) was King of Wessex from 839 until his death. Æthelwulf may also refer to: Æthelwulf, or Adulf (died c. 680)...
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    early 850s. The next year Æthelwulf and Æthelbald inflicted another defeat on the Vikings at the Battle of Aclea. In 855, Æthelwulf went on pilgrimage to...
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    territories were given to Ecgberht's son Æthelwulf to rule as a subking under Ecgberht. When Ecgberht died in 839, Æthelwulf succeeded him; the southeastern kingdoms...
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    son of King Æthelwulf by his first wife, Osburh. Æthelberht was first recorded as a witness to a charter in 854. The following year Æthelwulf went on pilgrimage...
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    married to Æthelwulf, King of England, accepting the title of queen and royal consecration. — Flodoard, Annals After the celebrations, Æthelwulf, his new...
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    from 865 until his death in 871. He was the fourth of five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, four of whom in turn became king. Æthelred succeeded his elder...
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    839, he was succeeded by his son Æthelwulf; all subsequent West Saxon kings were descendants of Ecgberht and Æthelwulf, and were also sons of kings. At...
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  • Æthelwulf of Berkshire (before 825 – 4 January, 871) was a Saxon ealdorman. In 860 he and other men of Berkshire fought off a band of pirates near Winchester...
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    Osburh or Osburga (also Osburga Oslacsdotter) was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of King Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser...
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  • father, King Æthelwulf of Wessex, who appointed him. The late D, E and F versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describe Æthelstan as Æthelwulf's brother,...
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  • sons are attested elsewhere: Adulf (which McGuigan suggests represents ′Æthelwulf′) is the ′King of the Northern Saxons′ whose obit was recorded in the...
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    reign of his successor, Æthelwulf, a Danish army arrived in the Thames estuary, but was decisively defeated. When Æthelwulf's son, Æthelbald, usurped...
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    portable objects. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 840 says that Æthelwulf of Wessex was defeated at Carhampton, Somerset, after 35 Viking ships...
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    of Viking attacks, but Egbert and his son Æthelwulf, who succeeded in 839, were able to resist them. Æthelwulf died in 858, and he was followed by four...
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  • Æthelwulf was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey. Æthelwulf was in office in AD811, as he was present at the synod of London in that year. He was still active...
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    fame reached the king's ears, and he appointed him tutor of his son, Æthelwulf (alias Adulphus), and considered him one of his chief friends. However...
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    eight hundred and nineteen hexameters by the ninth-century English monk Æthelwulf (Ædiluulf), a name meaning "noble wolf", which the author sometimes Latinises...
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  • Æthelwulf was a medieval Bishop of Elmham. Æthelwulf was consecrated before 781 and died sometime after that year. Or Athelwolfus or Aethelwulf Fryde...
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    Beorhtwulf. After Easter in 853, Burgred married Æthelswith, daughter of Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons. The marriage was celebrated at the royal villa...
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  • Ealhhere (also Alhhere, fl. 839 to 853) was ealdorman of Kent. In 850, Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, granted Ealhhere a large estate of forty hides at Lenham...
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    end of the so-called Mercian Supremacy. That same year, Ecgberht's son Æthelwulf invaded Kent and drove out its pro-Mercian king, Baldred. In the wake...
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    Æthelswith (c. 838–888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. The couple had no known issue...
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  • and Queen Ealhswith of Northumbria and the wife of Aethelwulf. She has a legitimate son with Aethelwulf, Aethelred, and an illegitimate one with Athelstan...
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  • Amy Bailey as Princess/Queen Kwenthrith of Mercia Moe Dunford as Prince Aethelwulf of Wessex, son of King Ecbert Maude Hirst as Helga, Floki's wife Gaia...
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  • Black, Harald's violent younger brother (part 1) Moe Dunford as King Aethelwulf of Wessex (part 1) Alex Høgh as King Ivar the Boneless, fourth son of...
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  • guest part 1) Luke Shanahan portrays a young Ubbe Moe Dunford as Prince Aethelwulf, son of King Ecbert (part 2, recurring part 1) Jonathan Rhys Meyers as...
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  • The Battle of Aclea occurred in 851 between the West Saxons led by Æthelwulf, King of Wessex and the Danish Vikings at an unidentified location in England...
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    productions like An Crisis and Game of Thrones. His most notable roles are Aethelwulf on Vikings and Patrick Fitzgerald in Patrick's Day. In 2015, he received...
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    858 Æthelwulf Son of Ecgberht. 858 to 860 Æthelbald Son of Æthelwulf. 860 to 865 Æthelberht Son of Æthelwulf. 865 to 871 Æthelred I Son of Æthelwulf. 871...
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