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Aethelwulf King Of WESSEX & KENT
Abt 806 - 857 (~ 51 years)-
Name Aethelwulf King Of WESSEX & KENT Birth Abt 806 Of, Wessex, England 
Gender Male AFN 9GCX-J1 Relationship (J,M&L) - 39th Great-grandparent
Name Ethelwulf King Of WESSEX _UID 323E86458C944024912EF1DCD3C3B1770971 Death 13 Jan 856-857 , England Burial , Stamridge Person ID I7176 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 5 Feb 2012
Father Egbert King Of WESSEX, b. Abt 784, Of, Wessex, England d. Aft 19 Nov 838, , Wessex, England (Age ~ 54 years) Mother Raedburh Of TOULOUSE, b. Abt 773, Toulouse, France d. Abt 840, Wessex, England (Age ~ 67 years) Marriage , Wessex, England Family ID F4163 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Osburh Queen Of WESSEX, b. Abt 810, Of, Wessex, England d. Abt 853 (Age ~ 43 years) Marriage Abt 830 Children 1. Aethelred I King Of WESSEX & KENT, b. Abt 830, Of, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 23 Apr 871, Merton, Torrington, Devonshire, England (Age ~ 41 years)2. Athelstan King Of KENT, ESSEX AND SUSSEX, b. Abt 838, Of, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. Abt 850 (Age ~ 12 years)3. Ethelbald King Of WESSEX, b. Abt 840, Of, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown4. Ethelswith Queen Of MERCIA, b. Abt 846, Of, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. Abt 888 (Age ~ 42 years)5. Alfred "The Great" King Of ENGLAND, King Of England, b. Abt 848, Of, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 26 Oct 901, , Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 53 years)Family ID F3638 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - Aethelwulf, also spelled ETHELWULF (d. 858), Anglo-Saxon king in England, the father of King Alfred the Great. As ruler of the West Saxons from 839 to 856, he allied his kingdom of Wessex with Mercia and thereby withstood invasions by Danish Vikings.
The son of the great West Saxon king Egbert (ruled 802-839), Aethelwulf ascended the throne four years after the Danes had begun large-scale raids on the English coast. In 851 he scored a major victory over a large Danish army at a place called Aclea in Surrey. Aethelwulf then married his daughter to the Mercian king Burgred (853), and in 856 he himself married the daughter of Charles II the Bald, king of the West Franks. Aethelwulf was deposed by a rival faction upon his return from a pilgrimage to Rome in 856, but he continued to rule Kent and several other eastern provinces until his death. In addition to Alfred the Great (ruled 871-899), three of Aethelwulf's other sons became kings of Wessex. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]
Source: lorenfamily.com
- Aethelwulf, also spelled ETHELWULF (d. 858), Anglo-Saxon king in England, the father of King Alfred the Great. As ruler of the West Saxons from 839 to 856, he allied his kingdom of Wessex with Mercia and thereby withstood invasions by Danish Vikings.