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1 giorno fa · Aelfthryth of Wessex was born around 877, the youngest daughter of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith of Mercia. She married Baldwin of Flanders towards the end of the 9th century and they had four children. Baldwin of Flanders died in 918 and was succeeded by their son Arnulf. Aelfthryth died in 929 and is buried in St Peter’s Abbey, Ghent ...
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22 mag 2024 · Heptarchy. Key People: Alfred. Saint Boniface. Edward. Egbert. Godwine. Related Places: United Kingdom. England. On the Web: Ancient Origins - The Kingdom of Wessex and the Birth of England (May 22, 2024) Wessex, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country.
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1 giorno fa · 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.
6 giorni fa · By convention, the Heptarchy period lasted from the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century, until most of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms came under the overlordship of Egbert of Wessex in 829. This approximately 400-year period of European history is often referred to as the Early Middle Ages or, more controversially, as the Dark Ages.
24 mag 2024 · Earl of Wessex: King Harthacnut c. 1018 –1042 King of the English r. 1040–1042: Gunhilda of Denmark c. 1020 –1038 Queen of Germany: Svein Knutsson c. 1016 –1035 King of Norway Son of King Cnut the Great king of Denmark, Norway, and England, and his first wife Queen Ælfgifu of Northampton, King Harold I Harefoot c. 1015 ...
4 mag 2024 · Fu consacrato nella cattedrale di Winchester il 3 aprile del 1043 e fin da subito condusse il regno verso un regime di pace e prosperità; tuttavia, per disporre del potere necessario, dovette scontrarsi con gli ostili Conti Godwin del Wessex, Leofrico di Coventry e Siward di Northumbria che aizzarono l’Aristocrazia sassone e danese osteggiando le aperte simpatie del Sovrano per i Normanni.
