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Æthelred of Wessex

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Æthelred I (Old English: Æþelræd, sometimes rendered as Ethelred, "noble counsel"; – 871) was King of Wessex from 865 to 871. [1]

43 relations: Alfred the Great, Archbishop of Canterbury, Æthelberht, King of Wessex, Æthelhelm, Ætheling, Æthelnoth (archbishop of Canterbury), Æthelweard (historian), Æthelwold ætheling, Æthelwulf, Barbara Yorke, Battle of Ashdown, Battle of Basing, Battle of Marton, Battle of Reading (871), Brescia, Burgred of Mercia, Burial places of British royalty, David Dumville, Dorset, Ecgberht, King of Wessex, Edward the Elder, Great Heathen Army, House of Wessex, Janet Nelson, Judith of Flanders, Kent, Kingdom of East Anglia, Kingdom of Northumbria, List of monarchs of Kent, List of monarchs of Wessex, Mercia, Michael Lapidge, Old English, Osburh, Osferth, Pauline Stafford, Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, San Salvatore, Brescia, Simon Keynes, Vikings, Wessex, Wimborne Minster (church), Wulfthryth of Wessex.

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Æthelberht, King of Wessex

Æthelberht (or Ethelbert; Æþelberht, meaning "magnificent noble") was the King of Kent from 858 and of Wessex from 860 until his death in 865.

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Æthelhelm

Æthelhelm or Æþelhelm (fl. 880s) was the elder of two known sons of Æthelred I, King of Wessex from 865 to 871.

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Ætheling

Ætheling (also spelt Aetheling, Atheling or Etheling) was an Old English term (æþeling) used in Anglo-Saxon England to designate princes of the royal dynasty who were eligible for the kingship.

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Æthelnoth (archbishop of Canterbury)

Æthelnoth (died 1038) was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Æthelweard (historian)

Æthelweard (also Ethelward; d. c. 998), descended from the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred I of Wessex, the elder brother of Alfred the Great, was an ealdorman and the author of a Latin version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle known as the Chronicon Æthelweardi.

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Æthelwold ætheling

Æthelwold or Æthelwald (died 902 or 903) was the younger of two known sons of Æthelred I, King of Wessex from 865 to 871.

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Æthelwulf

Æthelwulf (Old English for "Noble Wolf"; died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858.

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Barbara Yorke

Barbara Yorke FRHistS (born 1951) is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Battle of Ashdown

The Battle of Ashdown, in Berkshire (possibly the part now in Oxfordshire), took place on 8 January 871.

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Battle of Basing

The Battle of Basing was a battle on 22 January 871 at Old Basing in what is now the English county of Hampshire.

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Battle of Marton

The Battle of Marton or Meretum took place on approximately 22 March 871 at a place recorded as Marton, perhaps in Wiltshire or Dorset.

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Battle of Reading (871)

The first Battle of Reading was a battle on 4 January 871 at Reading in what is now the English county of Berkshire.

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Brescia

Brescia (Lombard: Brèsa,, or; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.

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Burgred of Mercia

Burgred (also Burhred or Burghred) was an Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from 852 to 874.

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Burial places of British royalty

These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles (currently includes only the monarchs of Scotland, England, native princes of Wales to 1283, or monarchs of the Great Britain, and the United Kingdom), as well as members of their royal families.

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David Dumville

David Norman Dumville (born 5 May 1949) is a British medievalist and Celtic scholar.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Ecgberht, King of Wessex

Ecgberht (771/775 – 839), also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, or Ecgbriht, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839.

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Edward the Elder

Edward the Elder (c. 874 – 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death.

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Great Heathen Army

The Great Viking Army, known by the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army (OE: mycel hæþen here), was a coalition of Norse warriors, originating from primarily Denmark, Sweden and Norway, who came together under a unified command to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in AD 865.

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House of Wessex

The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic (Cerdicingas in Old English), refers to the family that initially ruled a kingdom in southwest England known as Wessex, from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex until the unification of the Kingdoms of England by Alfred the Great and his successors.

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Janet Nelson

Dame Janet Laughland Nelson, DBE, FBA (born 28 March 1942) is a British historian.

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Judith of Flanders

Judith of Flanders (or Judith of France) (843 – c. 870) was queen consort of Wessex and countess consort of Flanders.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Kingdom of East Anglia

The Kingdom of the East Angles (Ēast Engla Rīce; Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), today known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens.

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Kingdom of Northumbria

The Kingdom of Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīce) was a medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland.

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List of monarchs of Kent

This is a list of the kings of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent.

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List of monarchs of Wessex

This is a list of monarchs of Wessex until 927.

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Mercia

Mercia (Miercna rīce) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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Michael Lapidge

Michael Lapidge, FBA (born 8 February 1942) is a scholar in the field of Medieval Latin literature, particularly that composed in Anglo-Saxon England during the period 600–1100 AD; he is an emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy, and winner of the 2009 Sir Israel Gollancz Prize.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Osburh

Osburh or Osburga was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great.

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Osferth

Osferth or Osferd or Osfrith (fl. c.885 to c.934) was described by Alfred the Great in his will as a "kinsman".

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Pauline Stafford

Pauline Stafford is Professor Emerita of Early Medieval History at Liverpool University in England.

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Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database and associated website that aims to collate everything that was written in contemporary records about anyone who lived in Anglo-Saxon England, in a prosopography.

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San Salvatore, Brescia

San Salvatore (or Santa Giulia) is a former monastery in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, now turned into a museum.

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Simon Keynes

Simon Douglas Keynes, (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Wessex

Wessex (Westseaxna rīce, the "kingdom of the West Saxons") was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519 until England was unified by Æthelstan in the early 10th century.

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Wimborne Minster (church)

Wimborne Minster, known locally as the Minster, is the parish church of Wimborne, Dorset, England.

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Wulfthryth of Wessex

Wulfthryth of Wessex (fl. 868) was a queen consort of the kingdom of Wessex, the wife of King Æthelred.

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AEthelraed, AEthelred of Wessex, Aethelred I of Wessex, Aethelred of Wessex, Athelred I, Ethelred I of England, Ethelred of Wessex, Ethelred of wessex, King AEthelred, King Æthelred, Æthelred I of Wessex, Æthelred, King of Wessex, Æthelred, King of the West Saxons, Æþelræd.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æthelred_of_Wessex

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