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Hace 4 días · 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 4 días · Edward (died July 17, 924, Farndon on Dee, England) was an Anglo-Saxon king in England, the son of Alfred the Great. As ruler of the West Saxons, or Wessex, from 899 to 924, Edward extended his authority over almost all of England by conquering areas that previously had been held by Danish invaders.
Hace 5 días · The first endowments of the abbey founded at Ancarig c. 662 by Saxulph, Abbot of Peterborough, and after devastation by the Danes in 870 refounded as the Abbey of Thorney by Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, in 972, appear to have included a manor of Newton, which was acquired for the abbey by Æthelwold from a knight called Ælfric ...
Hace 5 días · En este trágico accidente murieron cinco personas. No fue hasta 1986 cuando se pudo restaurar, por lo que se tuvo que utilizar nada más y nada menos que un helicóptero Wessex para bajar,...
Hace 6 días · The monastery lay absolutely desolate for nearly a century, but in the time of King Edgar, circa 966, its restoration was undertaken by Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester. The story of his dream, of his first seeking to establish a house at Oundle, and of the queen overhearing his prayers and becoming a great supporter of his scheme ...
Hace 2 días · Many battles were fought in Wessex, including one that led to a Danish defeat at Ashdown in 871. Alfred the Great , a son of Aethelwulf, succeeded to the throne in the course of the year and made peace; this gave him a respite until 876.
Hace 3 días · By the time of the Northumbrian king Æthelfrith's victory over the British in 616, Chester was in territory associated with the British kingdom of Powys and was perhaps the seat of a branch of the royal dynasty of the Cadelling, whose representatives were prominent in the battle.
