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Hace 6 días · Æthelweard maintains the Chronicle’s focus on Alfred’s military successes for the length of his reign; however, on Alfred’s death he provides a eulogy that lauds the king’s good governance and learning and the quality of his text translations. 28 Here Æthelweard adds assessments of the king’s learning and patronage akin to those of Asser to his own experiences of Alfredian texts ...
Hace 3 días · Æthelwulf, King of Wessex. Mother. Osburh. 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 his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
Hace 3 días · Æthelweard a proven descendant of Aethelred had his powerbase in South West England (Devon, Somerset and Dorset) and a possible brother of Ælfgifu. It may not be farfetched to think Æthelweard may have been the father/uncle of the mysterious royal mother of Ælfthryth?
Hace 4 días · Æthelweard's chronicle, however, mentions the death on 24 August 895 of King Guthfrid and his burial in the minster. Guthred and Guthfrid are variant forms of the same Old Norse name and there is little doubt that the same person is meant.
9 de may. de 2024 · How to say Æthelweard in English? Pronunciation of Æthelweard with 1 audio pronunciation, 1 meaning and more for Æthelweard.
Hace 3 días · Æthelweard d. 920 or 922 Second Son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith: Ælfthryth of Wessex Countess of Flanders 877–929 Second Daughter of King Alfred the Great and Queen Ealhswith: Baldwin II Second Margrave of Flanders c. 865 –918: Ælfwynn 'Second Lady of the Mercians' b. c. 888: King Æthelstan c. 893/895 –939 King ...
20 de may. de 2024 · Siefred is probably identical with Sigeferth piraticus de Northymbriorum recorded in Æthelweard's chronicle as ravaging the coasts in 895. The increasing commercial prosperity of the city indicated by these coinages must have advanced steadily throughout the unsettled reigns of the Danish and Norse kings.
