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Alfred Ætheling landed on the coast of Sussex with a Norman mercenary body guard and attempted to make his way to London. However he was betrayed, captured by Earl Godwin of Wessex, and blinded; he died soon afterwards.
Alfred Aetheling (1005 – Ely, 1036) è stato un nobile inglese. La regina Emma con i figli Edoardo e Alfred al cospetto del fratello Riccardo
27 ott 2018 · Alfred the Ætheling was the younger son of Æthelred II the Unready and his second wife, Emma of Normandy. Emma was the daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, and his wife, Gunnora. Born in around 985/987, she was married to Æthelred at Winchester on 5 April 1002, at which time she was given the English name Ælfgifu, although in ...
The throne passed to the king's younger brother (Æthelwold's uncle) Alfred the Great, who carried on the war against the Vikings and won a crucial victory at the Battle of Edington in 878. After Alfred's death in 899, Æthelwold disputed the throne with Alfred's son, Edward the Elder.
Ætheling (/ ˈ æ θ əl ɪ ŋ /; 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.
murder in 1036 of Alfred Ætheling, the son of King Ethelred ( the Unr eady ) and brother of the future King Edward the Confessor. The historical details of this appalling episode are clear in outline if not in detail. Having been in exile in Normandy, Alfred came to England on the death of Cnut and fell into the hands of enemies (probably support-
Quick Reference. ( c. 1008– c. 1037) was a younger son of *Æthelred by Emma of Normandy. Her second marriage, to Cnut, dispossessed the sons by her first marriage and they were brought up in Normandy. In 1035, on the death of Cnut, Alfred made an ill‐judged visit to England.
