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Personal data Ēadweard "Eadweard cyning"

Nickname is Eadweard cyning.
He was born about 874Wantage
Oxfordshire England.
He was christened in the year 871 in Wessex England.
Alternative: He was christened in the year 875 in This is the dob that Ancestral Roots gives.
Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church.
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Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on July 23, 1923.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on March 11, 1935.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on March 11, 1935.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on March 11, 1935.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on March 11, 1935.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on March 11, 1935.
Occupations:

Roi d'Angleterre (899-924).
Konge.
Konge av England.
Roi de'Angleterre.
Prins.
Kung.
King of England, king of Wessex.
King of England, 901-924.
Roi, d'Angleterre, 899, de Wessex.
in the year 899 unknown in King of England.
on October 26, 899 King of England.
on October 26, 899 unknown.
on October 26, 899 King of England.
on June 8, 900 unknown in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, King of Wessex.
in the year 901 unknown in Edward reigned.
in the year 901 unknown in King of the Angles &, Saxons.
in the year 924 King of England.

Resident:

England.
England.
England.

He died on July 17, 924 in Farndon-on-Dee (Ferrington)Cheshire England.
He is buried on July 17, 924 in New Minster Abbey, Winchester, Hampshire, England, later transferred to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, Hampshire, England.
A child of Ælfrēd and Ealhswith
This information was last updated on January 22, 2019.

Household of Ēadweard "Eadweard cyning"

(1) He is married to Ælfflæd.

They got married in the year 901 at England.

Child(ren):

Ēadgifu Queen of France Queen of France 904-> 955
Ēadgȳð (Eadgyth) of Wessex 910-946

(2) He is married to Eadgifu.

They got married in the year 919 at Wessex,England.

Child(ren):

Ēadmund ± 923-946

Notes about Ēadweard "Eadweard cyning"

From Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarch by John Cannon and Ralph Griffiths, Oxford University Press, 1988. p. 49.
"many people who had been under the rule of the Danes both in East Anglia and in Essex submitted to him; and all the army in East Anglia swore agreement with him, that they would agree to all that he would, and would keep peace with all whom the king wishes to keep peace, both at sea and on land. (Anglo Saxon Chronicle, 917)"
Though overshadowed by his father, Alfred the Great and upstaged by his son Athelstan, it was Edward who reconquered much of England from the Danes (909-19), permanently united Mercia with Wessex (918-19), established an administration for the kingdom of England, and secured the allegiance of Danes, Scots, Britons, and English. Well educated and well trained by Alfred, he nevertheless had to overcome a rival for the throne (899-903). Using Alfred's methods and in alliance with Mercia, he spread English influence and control. The Danes of Northumbria were defeated (910) at Tettenhall (Staffs.), the Viking kingdom of York acknowledged his power (918), and most Welsh kings submitted to him. In 921 the submission not only of Viking York and Northumbria but also of the kings of Strathclyde and the Scots gave his kingdom primacy in the British Isles. Edward was a patient planner and systematic organizer as well as a bold soldier. By the time he died, he had completed the New Minster at Winchester where he himself was buried. Though twice married, his eldest son and successor, Athelstan, was the son of a mistress.

Married (1) Ecgwynn, (2) Ælfflæd, (3) 919 Edgiva

(Research):Edward the Elder Edward the Elder, d. 924, king of Wessex (899-924), son and successor of Alfred. He fought with his father against the Danes. At Alfred's death (899) Edward's succession was disputed by his cousin Æthelwold, who allied himself with the Danes of Northumbria and East Anglia. The death of Æthelwold in battle (902) put an end to that war, but later fighting with the Danes recommenced. Aided by his sister Æthelflod, Lady of the Mercians, Edward undertook a series of advances against the Danes, systematically building fortresses to cover his positions. At the same time he repelled Viking attacks on the shore of England. After Æthelflod's death (918) he asserted his full authority over Mercia and thus became ruler of all England S of the Humber River. He was also accepted as overlord by several Welsh rulers and by English Northumbria, and he is supposed to have received the submission of Constantine II of Scotland. The right of the overlordship of Scotland, based on Edward's position, was asserted by later English kings. Edward was succeeded by his son Athelstan. Two other sons, Edmund and Eldred, also ascended the throne. Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/03970.html

Source #1: Frederick Lewis Weis, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700" - Seventh Edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., assisted by Davis Faris (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1995), p. 2

King of England 899-924.
He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia
(918) and Northumbria (920).

Name Prefix: King Name Suffix: I, King Of Wessex "The Elder" Kingof England from 899-924. A solider trained by his father, Alfred, who was able to greatly spread English influence over the Danes, Scots, Britons (in Wales)and in Europe. Some believe that his eldest son, Athelstan, was actually theson of a (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)@S166@

Name Prefix: Prince Name Suffix: Of England

Edward 'the Elder', King of Wessex (M) b. circa 871, d. 17 July 924, #102434d. 17 Jul 924|p10244.htm#i102434|Alfred \\'the Great\\', King of Wessex|b. bt 846 - 849d. bt 25 Oct 899 - 28 Oct 899|p10261.htm#i102606|Ethelswitha, Princess of Mercia|d. 5 Dec 905|p10261.htm#i102607|Ethelwulf, King of Wessex|b. bt 795 - 810d. a 13 Jan 858|p10261.htm#i102608|Osburga (?)|d. bt 846 - 855|p10261.htm#i102609|Ethelred Mucel, Ealdorman of the Gainas||p10263.htm#i102623|Edburga (?) , Princess of Mercia||p10646.htm#i106458|');"Pedigree Last Edited=24 Sep 2003
Edward 'the Elder', King of Wessex was the son of Alfred 'the Great', King of Wessex and Ethelswitha, Princess of Mercia . He was born circa 871 at Wantage, Dorset, England.1 He married, firstly, Elfleda (?) , daughter of Ethelhelm (?) , Ealdorman and Elswitha (?) , circa 901.2 He married, secondly, Edgiva (?), daughter of Sigehelm (?), Lord of Meopham, Cooling and Lenham, Kent , circa 920.3 He married, thirdly, Egwina (?).1 He died on 17 July 924 at Farndon-on-Dee, England.4 He was also reported to have died on 7 July 924 at Farndon, Cheshire, England. He was buried at Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England.4 He succeeded to the title of King Edward of Mercia on 26 October 899.1 He succeeded to the title of King Edward of Wessex on 26 October 899.1 He was crowned King of Wessex and Mercia on 31 May 900 at Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England.1 Edward together with his sister Ethelfleda of Mercia, fought stoutly against the Danes. Ethelfleda built many forts notably at Chester, Hereford, Bridgenorth, Shrewsbury, Warwick, Gloucester and Tamworth. Known as The Lady of the Mercians, she died in 918 and Mercia was then united with Wessex. In 914, Edward secured the release of the Bishop of Llandaff (Cardiff) who had been captured by the Norsemen and following this, the princes of both North and South Wales pledged their perpetual allegiance to him. Edward doubled the size of the kingdom during his reign. It is now generally acknowledged that Edward died on the 7th July 924 but some historians give the date as 925.
Children of Edward 'the Elder', King of Wessex and Egwina (?):
Alfred (?) Saint Edith (?) d. c 927 Athelstan, King of England b. c 895, d. 27 Oct 939
Children of Edward 'the Elder', King of Wessex and Elfleda (?) :
Edhild (?) d. b 14 Sep 937 Edwin (?) d. 933 Edfleda (?) Ethelhilda (?) Edith (?) + d. 26 Jan 947 Elgiva (?) Edhilda (?) + d. 26 Jan 947 Elfweard, King of England d. 1 Aug 924 Elfleda (?) d. c 963 Ethelfleda (?) Edgiva (?) + b. 902, d. c 953
Children of Edward 'the Elder', King of Wessex and Edgiva (?):
Saint Edburga (?) d. 15 Jun 960 Edgiva (?) Edmund I 'the Elder', King of England + b. bt 920 - 922, d. 26 May 946 Edred, King of England b. bt 923 - 925, d. 23 Nov 955
Citations
[S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 11. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
[S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 12.
[S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 13.
[S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 14.

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OCCU King of England 870?-924

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DEAT DATE ??/??/925

Edward I, the Elder (900-24 AD)

Son of Alfred the Great, Edward immediately succeeded his father to the throne. His main achievement was to use the military platform created by his father to bring back, under English control, the whole of the Danelaw, south of the Humber River.

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Facts about this person:

Fact 1May 31, 900
Acceded: Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey

Fact 2
Interred: Winchester Cathedral, London, England

succeeded his father in 901

Konge av Wessex og Kent 901 - 924.
Edvard ?den Eldre? var voksen i 894.
Med sin konkubine Egwyn hadde han sønnen Etherstan som ble konge av England.
Han var gift annen gang med Edgiva. De hadde sønnene Edred og Edmund I som
også ble konger av England.

Edward's succession to his father was not assured. When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Aethelwold, the son of King Aethelred I, rose up to claim the throne. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Aethelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Aethelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900. The following year, he took the title of "King of the Angles and Saxons", distinguishing himself from his predecessors, who had been Kings of Wessex. In 901, Aethelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Aethelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle. Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle. In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians returned the favour by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the Humber River. Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick. Edward arguably exceeded Alfred's military achievements, restoring the Danelaw to Saxon rule and reigning in Mercia from 918, after the death of his sister, Ethelfleda. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. Ethelfleda's daughter, Aelfwinn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, and ruled by himself from Mercia, ending Mercian independence. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex. A series of Norse invasions of the North forced Edward into several battles between the end of 918 and late 920. At that time, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh were calling him "father and lord". This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom. Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury & Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities. He died leading an army against a Cambro-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and King Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

Edward, byname EDWARD THE ELDER (d. July 17, 924, Farndon on Dee, Eng.), Anglo-Saxon king in England, the son of Alfred the Great. As rulerof 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. Edward ascended the throne upon his father's death in October 899, and in a battle in 902 his forces killed a rival claimant, Aethelwald, who had allied with the Danes. After defeating the Northumbrian Danes at Tettenhall, he set out in August 912 to subdue the Danes of the eastern Midlands and East Anglia. From 910 to 916 he constructed a series of fortified enclosures around his Kingdom of Wessex. At the same time, his sister, the Mercian ruler Aethelflaed, constructed a complementary series of fortresses in the northwest Midlands. In 917 Edward and Aethelflaed launched a massive offensive, quickly overwhelming the entire Danish army of East Anglia. Upon Aethelflaed's death in June 918, Edward assumed control of Mercia,and by the end of the year the last Danish armies in the Midlands hadsubmitted. By that time Edward's kingdom included all the land south of the Humber estuary; in 920 he pacified Northumbria. Complete political unification of England was achieved during the reign of his son and successor, Athelstan

Edward I, the Elder (900-24 AD) Son of Alfred the Great, Edward immediately succeeded his father to the throne. His main achievement was to use the military platform created by his father to bring back, under English control, the whole of the Danelaw, south of the Humber River.
He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920).

(Research):Married <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Married.html> to , Ecgwyn
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 1: , AEthelstan, King of England, b. 894
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 2: , Alfred
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 3: , Edith (St)
Married <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Married.html> to , AElflaeda
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 4: , AElfweard, King of England
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 5: , Edgifu, b. 902
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 6: , Edflaed, A nun at Wilton
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 7: , Edwin, Sub King of Kent?
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 8: , AElflaeda, A nun at Winchester
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 9: , AEthelflaeda, Abbess of Romsey
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 10: , Edhilda
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 11: , Eadgyth (Edith)
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 12: , AEthelhild, a recluse
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 13: , AElfgifu
Married <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Married.html> ABT 905 to , Eadgifu (Edgiva)
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 14: , Edgifu
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 15: , Edburga (St.), nun at Nunnaminster
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 16: , Edmund I the Elder, King of England, b. 921
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 17: , Eadred, King of England, b. CIR 924
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 18: , Gregory of Einsiedlen, Abbot of Einsiedlen

Edward I, the Elder (900-24 AD) Son of Alfred the Great, Edward immediately succeeded his father to the throne. His main achievement was to use the military platform created by his father to bring back, under English control, the whole of the Danelaw, south of the Humber River.
He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920).

(Research):Married <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Married.html> to , Ecgwyn
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 1: , AEthelstan, King of England, b. 894
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 2: , Alfred
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 3: , Edith (St)
Married <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Married.html> to , AElflaeda
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 4: , AElfweard, King of England
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 5: , Edgifu, b. 902
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 6: , Edflaed, A nun at Wilton
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 7: , Edwin, Sub King of Kent?
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 8: , AElflaeda, A nun at Winchester
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 9: , AEthelflaeda, Abbess of Romsey
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 10: , Edhilda
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 11: , Eadgyth (Edith)
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 12: , AEthelhild, a recluse
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 13: , AElfgifu
Married <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Married.html> ABT 905 to , Eadgifu (Edgiva)
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 14: , Edgifu
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 15: , Edburga (St.), nun at Nunnaminster
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 16: , Edmund I the Elder, King of England, b. 921
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 17: , Eadred, King of England, b. CIR 924
Child <http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/Child.html> 18: , Gregory of Einsiedlen, Abbot of Einsiedlen

Edward was the eldest son of King Alfred the Great and Queen Elswith. At the age of twenty-two, he appears to have married a noblewoman named Egwina, though the wedding may have been uncanonical and was not recognized in some quarters. They had three or four children. At the same time, Edward was already active in his father's campaigns against the Vikings and towards the end of Alfred's reign, he was probably appointed Sub-King of Kent.

Edward's path to the throne was not altogether smooth. Upon his father's death in AD 899, a rebellion broke out in favour of Edward's cousin, Aethelwold, the son of the late King Aethelred I. Failing to secure Wessex, this prince went north and found support from the people of the Norse Kingdom of York, where he was proclaimed King. With the help of the East Anglians, he subsequently attacked both Mercia and Wessex but was killed at the Battle of Holme (Essex) in AD 902. Around the same time, the King married for a second time to Aelflaed the daughter Ealdorman Aethelhelm of Wiltshire. They had eight children together. Four years later, Edward made peace with the Northerners at Tiddingford in Bedfordshire; but by AD 909, he took on a more aggressive stance by raiding the North-West. The following year, a joint Mercian and West Saxon army marched north and defeated the Northern Vikings so completely at Tettenhall (Staffordshire) that they subsequently felt it best to remain within their borders. King Edward was then able to concentrate his attentions on the Danes of East Anglia and the Five Boroughs (of the East Midlands). With the help of his sister, the formidable Lady Aethelflaed of Mercia, the next eight years saw a prolonged campaign aimed at pushing the boundaries of Wessex and Mercia northwards. This was largely achieved through the extension of King Alfred's old policy of building defensive burghs across the country, as recorded in the 'Burghal Hidage'. They were both places of refuge in time of attack and garrisoned strongholds from which assaults could be launched.

After Aethelflaed's death in AD 918, Edward was able to take advantage of his niece Aelfwinn's minority and brought Mercia under direct Wessex control. Two years later, the Kings of the north - including Sigtrygg Caech (the Squinty) of Norse York, Constantine II of the Scots and Donald mac Aed of Strathclyde - met Edward at Bakewell and also finally recognised his overlordship. At the time of his third marriage, to Edith daughter of Ealdorman Sigehelm of Kent, therefore King Edward was in a strong position. Holding his territories together was not easy, however, and revolts against Edward's rule continued. In AD 924, he was forced to lead an army north once more to put down a Cambro-Mercian rebellion in Cheshire. He died at Farndon-upon-Dee in that county on 17th July.

Edward's body was taken south to the reduced diocese of Winchester for burial - he had sub-divided the West Saxon sees in AD 909, creating new Bishops of Ramsbury & Sonning, Wells and Crediton. The King was interred at the family mausoleum, his own foundation (AD 901) of New Minster in the centre Winchester, and was succeeded by his sons, Aelfweard and Aethelstan.

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Family 1: Ecgwyn

1.Athelstan 895-940, Malmesbury
2.Daughter m. Sihtric of Northumberland, King of Denmark

Family 2: Elfleda

1.Ethelwerd d. 924
2.Edwin d. by drowning
3.Elfleda
4.Edgiva m. Charles the Simple, King of France
5.Ethelhilda
6.Edhilda m. Hugh the Great, Count of Paris
7.Eadgyth (Edith) m. Otho I the Great, King of Duitsland
8.Elgiva m. Boleslaw II, Duke of Bohemia

Family 3: Edgiva

1.Edmund I the Elder 939-946 bur. Glastonbury
Family 1: St. Elgiva
1.Edwy
2.Edgar the Peaceful
Family 2: Ethelfleda of Domerham
NOTES: Edmund (a Saxon king) was stabbed to death by a robber and was succeeded by his brother, Edred.
2.Edred : Succeeded to the throne of his brother, Edmund I the Elder. Reign: 946-955.
3.Edburh (nun)
4.Edgiva m. Louis, King of ProvenceFamily 1: Ecgwyn

1.Athelstan 895-940, Malmesbury
2.Daughter m. Sihtric of Northumberland, King of Denmark

Family 2: Elfleda

1.Ethelwerd d. 924
2.Edwin d. by drowning
3.Elfleda
4.Edgiva m. Charles the Simple, King of France
5.Ethelhilda
6.Edhilda m. Hugh the Great, Count of Paris
7.Eadgyth (Edith) m. Otho I the Great, King of Duitsland
8.Elgiva m. Boleslaw II, Duke of Bohemia

Family 3: Edgiva

1.Edmund I the Elder 939-946 bur. Glastonbury
Family 1: St. Elgiva
1.Edwy
2.Edgar the Peaceful
Family 2: Ethelfleda of Domerham
NOTES: Edmund (a Saxon king) was stabbed to death by a robber and was succeeded by his brother, Edred.
2.Edred : Succeeded to the throne of his brother, Edmund I the Elder. Reign: 946-955.
3.Edburh (nun)
4.Edgiva m. Louis, King of Provence

King of England and Wessex, King of Angles and Saxons Edward The Elder 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 hadbeen held by Danish invaders.
Edward ascended the throne upon his father's death in October 899, and in a battle in 902 his forces killed a rival claimant, Aethelwald, who had allied with the Danes. After defeating the Northumbrian Danes at Tettenhall, he set out in August 912 to subdue the Danes of the eastern Midlands and East Anglia. From 910 to 916 he constructed a series of fortified enclosures around his Kingdom of Wessex.
At the same time, his sister, the Mercian ruler Aethelflaed, constructed a complementaryseries of fortresses in the northwest Midlands. In 917 Edward and Aethelflaed launched a massive offensive, quickly overwhelming the entire Danish army of East Anglia. Upon Aethelflaed's death in June 918, Edward assumed control of Mercia, and by the end of the year the last Danish armies in the Midlands had submitted. By that time Edward's kingdom included all the land south of the Humber estuary; in 920 he pacified Northumbria. Complete political unification of England was achieved during the reign ofhis son and successor, Athelstan (reigned 924-939).

son of Alfred the Great, succeeded his father in 901. His succession was disputed by his cousin, Ethelwald the Atheling, who obtained the help of the Danes. The conflict ended with the death of Ethelwald in battle, in 905. But Edward still carried on war with the Danes, and Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia were subdued by him; and he extended his dominions by conquests in Scotland and Wales. Died, 925.

Edward the Elder
(AD 871-924)
Born: c. AD 871 possibly at Winchester, Hampshire
King of the English
Died: 17th July AD 924
possibly at Faringdon, Berkshire
or Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire
Edward was the eldest son of King Alfred the Great and Queen Elswith. At the age of twenty-two, he appears to have married a noblewoman named Egwina, though the wedding may have been uncanonical and was not recognized in some quarters. They had three or four children. At the same time, Edward was already active in his father's campaigns against the Vikings and towards the end of Alfred's reign, he was probably appointed Sub-King of Kent.

Edward's path to the throne was not altogether smooth. Upon his father's death in AD 899, a rebellion broke out in favour of Edward's cousin, Aethelwold, the son of the late King Aethelred I. Failing to secure Wessex, this prince went north and found support from the people of the Norse Kingdom of York, where he was proclaimed King. With the help of the East Anglians, he subsequently attacked both Mercia and Wessex but was killed at the Battle of Holme (Essex) in AD 902. Around the same time, the King married for a second time to Aelflaed the daughter Ealdorman Aethelhelm of Wiltshire. They had eight children together. Four years later, Edward made peace with the Northerners at Tiddingford in Bedfordshire; but by AD 909, he took on a more aggressive stance by raiding the North-West. The following year, a joint Mercian and West Saxon army marched north and defeated the Northern Vikings so completely at Tettenhall (Staffordshire) that they subsequently felt it best to remain within their borders. King Edward was then able to concentrate his attentions on the Danes of East Anglia and the Five Boroughs (of the East Midlands). With the help of his sister, the formidable Lady Aethelflaed of Mercia, the next eight years saw a prolonged campaign aimed at pushing the boundaries of Wessex and Mercia northwards. This was largely achieved through the extension of King Alfred's old policy of building defensive burghs across the country, as recorded in the 'Tribal Hidage'. They were both places of refuge in time of attack and garrisoned strongholds from which assaults could be launched.

After Aethelflaed's death in AD 918, Edward was able to take advantage of his niece Aelfwinn's minority and brought Mercia under direct Wessex control. Two years later, the Kings of the north - including Sigtrygg Caech (the Squinty) of Norse York, Constantine II of the Scots and Donald mac Aed of Strathclyde - met Edward at Bakewell and also finally recognised his overlordship. At the time of his third marriage, to Edith daughter of Ealdorman Sigehelm of Kent, therefore King Edward was in a strong position. Holding his territories together was not easy, however, and revolts against Edward's rule continued. Since, in mid-AD 924, he appears to have been on the Welsh border leading an army against a Cambro-Mercian rebellion, it seems most likely that, on 17th July, he died at Farndon-upon-Dee in Cheshire, rather than the traditional Faringdon in Berkshire.

Edward's body was taken south to the reduced diocese of Winchester for burial - he had sub-divided the West Saxon sees in AD 909, creating new Bishops of Ramsbury & Sonning, Wells and Crediton. The King was interred at the family mausoleum, his own foundation (AD 901) of New Minster in the centre of Winchester, and was succeeded by his sons, Aelfweard and Aethelstan.

He was king of the West Saxons from 899-924, succeeding his father, Alfred
the Great. Then, he was succeeded by his son, Athelstan. In 919, Edward
received solumn submission of all the men of Northumbria, "English, Danes,
Northmen and others," of the kings of the Scots and the Britons of
Strathclyde, Ragnall also became his man.

Edward the Elder
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edward I the Elder
King of Wessex

Reign 26 October 899 - 17 July 924
Coronation 8 June 900, Kingston upon Thames
Born c.871
Wessex, England
Died 17 July 924
Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire England
Buried New Minster, Winchester, later translated to Hyde Abbey
Predecessor Alfred the Great and
Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
Successor Ælfweard of Wessex and
Athelstan of England
Consort Ecgwynn, Ælfflæd, and Edgiva
Father Alfred the Great
Mother Ealhswith

Edward I the Elder (Old English: Eadweard se Ieldra) (c. 871 – 17 July 924) was King of England (899 – 924). He was the son of Alfred the Great (Ælfred se Greata) and Alfred's wife, Ealhswith, and became King of Wessex upon his father's death in 899.

Contents [hide]
1 Succession and early reign
2 Achievements
3 Family
4 Genealogy
5 References
6 Sources
7 External links

[edit] Succession and early reign
Edward's succession to his father was not assured. When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Aethelwold, the son of King Aethelred I, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Aethelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Aethelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [1]

In 901, Aethelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Aethelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[2]

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians returned the favour by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the Humber River.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick.

[edit] Achievements

A coin from Edward the Elder's reignEdward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Ethelfleda (Æðelfl?d). Ethelfleda's daughter, Aelfwinn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and [[Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[3] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[4]

He died leading an army against a Cambro-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and King Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

[edit] Family
Edward had four or five siblings, including Ælfthryth and Ethelfleda.

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, and may have had illegitimate children too.

Edward married (although the exact status of the union is uncertain) Ecgwynn around 893, and they became the parents of Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric, King of Dublin and York, but Ecgwynn was considered too lowly. Nothing is known about Ecgwynn other than her name, which was not even recorded until after the Conquest. [5][6] Later historians have claimed that she was a noblewoman and that she was a shepherd's daughter.

When he became king in 899, Edward set Ecgwynn aside and married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire. [7] Their son was the future king, Ælfweard, and their daughter Eadgyth married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. The couple had one other son, Edwin Ætheling, and five more daughters, including Edgiva, alias Edgifu, who married Charles the Simple, and Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, duke of the Franks. According to the entry on Boleslaus II of Bohemia, the daughter Adiva (referred to in the entry for Eadgyth) was his wife.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Edgiva, alias Eadgifu,[7] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons, Edmund and Edred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester. Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Aelffaed, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

[edit] Genealogy
For a more complete genealogy including ancestors and descendants, see House of Wessex family tree.

Diagram based on the information found on Wikipedia

[edit] References
^ England: Anglo-Saxon Consecrations: 871-1066.
^ Edward the Elder: Reconquest of the Southern Danelaw.
^ Edward the Elder: "Father and Lord" of the North.
^ English Monarchs: Edward the Elder.
^ Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons.
^ Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray, pp. 98,99.
^ a b Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray, p. 99.

[edit] Sources
anglo-saxons.net
David Nash Ford's Early British Kingdoms
England: Anglo-Saxon Consecrations: 871-1066.
English Monarchs: Edward the Elder.
Higham, N.J. Edward the Elder, 899-924, 2001 ISBN 0-415-21497-1
Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray, pp. 98,99.

[edit] External links
The Laws of King Edward the Elder
Edward the Elder Coinage Regulations
Find A Grave: Edward the Elder

Preceded by
Alfred the Great King of England
899–924 Succeeded by
Ælfweard in Wessex
Athelstan in Mercia

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Edward ist considered by some historians to be among Britain's most militarily skilled kings. Events: Coronation June 8, 900, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England. He reigned 899-925. He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria )920). Affair with Ecgwyn (his mistress). Children: Ethelstan, King of the English. Alfred (illigitimate). Edith. Source: RoyaList. In Brian Tompsett list *Ecgwyn* is mentioned as his wife. Source: Leo van de Pas
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He was king of the West Saxons from 899-924, succeeding his father, Alfred
the Great. Then, he was succeeded by his son, Athelstan. In 919, Edward
received solumn submission of all the men of Northumbria, "English, Danes,
Northmen and others," of the kings of the Scots and the Britons of
Strathclyde, Ragnall also became his man.

Edward was Alfred's son. Edward together with his sister Ethelfleda of Mercia, fought stoutly against the Danes. Ethelfleda built many forts notably at Chester,Hereford, Bridgenorth, Shrewsbury, Warwick, Gloucester and Tamworth. Known as The Lady of the Mercians, she died in 918 and Mercia was then united with Wessex. In 914, Edward secured the release of the Bishop of Llandaff (Cardiff) who had been captured by the Norsemen and following this, the princes of both North and South Wales pledged their perpetual allegiance to him. Edward doubled the size of the kingdom during his reign. It is now generally acknowledged that Edward died on the 7th July 924 but some historians give the date as 925. His death occurred at Farndon in Cheshire and he was buried at Winchester. Abroad, the African state of Ghana was at the peak of it's power. And, an event that was to affect England a century and a half later, the Viking Rollo (Rolf) was acknowledged as the Lord of Normandy in France.

He was king of the West Saxons from 899-924, succeeding his father, Alfred
the Great. Then, he was succeeded by his son, Athelstan. In 919, Edward
received solumn submission of all the men of Northumbria, "English, Danes,
Northmen and others," of the kings of the Scots and the Britons of
Strathclyde, Ragnall also became his man.

Edward the Elder

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Edward the Elder [Ed Elder.jpg]

Rank: 7th

Ruled: October 26, 899-July 17, 924

Predecessor: Alfred the Great

Date of Birth: 871

Place of Birth: Wessex, England

Wives: Egwina, Elfleda, and Edgiva

Buried: Winchester Cathedral

Date of Death: July 17, 924

Parents: Alfred and Ealhswith

King Edward the Elder was born in about 871 AD, the son of King Alfred the Great. He became King of Wessex on his father's death in 899, and exceeded Alfred's military achievements, restoring the Danelaw to Saxon rule and reigning in Mercia
from 918, after the death of his sister, Ethelfleda. He spent his early reign fighting his cousin Aethelwald, son of Ethelred I. He had about eighteen children from his three marriages, and may have had an illegitimate child, too. He died in
about 924, and was buried at Winchester . This portrait is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxons monarchs by an unknown artist on the 18th century.

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Edward was the second child and eldest son of King Alfred whom he succeeded as King of Wessex from 899 until 924. He was born about 872 and given a good education. There are indications that by the late 880s he was regarded as his father's heir-apparent. (This was by no means a foregone conclusion: succession was governed by no hard-and-fast rules, and there were other potential claimants.) He first emerges clearly into the light of history in 893 when he defeated a large army of Danish raiders at Farnham. His succession to the throne in 899 did not go uncontested. His cousin ¥thelwold, the son of Alfred's elder brother ¥thelred I, rose in rebellion against him, entered into alliance with the Danes of Northumbria and East Anglia, and invaded English Mercia and northern Wessex in 902. In an indecisive battle ¥thelwold was killed and his bid for the kingship was over. While he lasted he had been extremely dangerous. ¥thelwold's revolt hints at the strains inside the West Saxon dynasty, about which our sources usually maintain a discreet silence.

Edward's most striking achievement as king was his conquest of the Danelaw up as far as the river Humber in a series of campaigns between 909 and 920. In these operations he was assisted by his sister ¥thelflµd, the 'Lady of the Mercians'. His strategy focused upon the building of fortresses, or burhs, at key points on the fringes of his territories. Their function was at once defensive and offensive: they served both to discourage Danish raids into English land and to provide bases from which further English advances could be launched. Between 910 and 921 no less than twenty-eight burhs were constructed by Edward and ¥thelflµd - a very considerable investment of resources.

Edward perceived that the Danes of Northumbria had to be neutralised before he could concentrate his efforts against the southern Danes. A combined Mercian and West Saxon campaign in Northumbria in 909 brought retaliation in 910. A Northumbrian army struck into Mercia and was decisively defeated at Tettenhall in Staffordshire. Danish Northumbria gave Edward no more trouble for the next few years. In 911 he built a burh at Hertford and in 912 moved against the Danes of Essex, receiving many submissions and constructing a burh at Witham. The eastern advance was suspended in 913 and 914 as Edward beat off raiding-parties from the midlands and a much more serious attack from Danes based in Brittany who penetrated up the Bristol Channel into the lands bordering the lower Severn. After this the King resumed activities in the east. His advance was marked by the building of fortresses at Buckingham (914), Bedford (915) and Maldon (916). The year 917 was one of intense military activity, unusually well-documented in the contemporary record of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. By the end of the year Edward was in control of the whole of East Anglia together with Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire; fortresses had been built or restored at Towcester, Huntingdon, Colchester and the unidentified Wigingamere (probably in Cambridgeshire). ¥thelflµd, meanwhile, had conquered Derby from the Danes. In 918 she went on to occupy Leicester, while Edward moved up the eastern side of the country, absorbing Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire (burhs at Stamford and Nottingham). His northern frontiers were made more secure by fortresses at Thelwall, Manchester and Bakewell in 919-20. West Saxon power had been carried as far as the river Humber. In a famous passage the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that in 920 the rulers of mainland Britain beyond the Humber - the Danish King of York, the Anglian Lord of Bamburgh, the King of the Britons of Strathclyde and the King of Scots - submitted to King Edward and 'chose him as father and lord'. At the very least this constituted an undertaking to live at peace with Edward, perhaps to pay tribute too, and it would appear that the promises were honoured for the remainder of his reign.

Edward had absorbed not merely the southern Danelaw but also English, i.e. western, Mercia. On the death of Ealdorman ¥thelred of Mercia in 911 Edward annexed London and Oxford 'and all the lands which belonged to them' in the valley of the Thames. Immediately after the death of his sister ¥thelflµd in 918 he occupied Tamworth 'and all the nation in the land of the Mercians which had been subject to ¥thelflµd submitted to him.' Shortly afterwards ¥thelflµd's daughter Elfwyn was removed from Mercia to Wessex: nothing more is heard of her. The West Saxon take-over of English Mercia may have been a less peaceable affair than our sources - exclusively West Saxon - permit us to see. Of one thing we can be certain: it was followed up by a thorough going reorganisation of the administrative structure of Mercia. The system of local government based on shires administered by royal officials, whose origins we can dimly discern in the Wessex of King Ine two centuries before Edward's day, was extended to Mercia in the tenth century. The shires of English Mercia from Cheshire in the north to Bedfordshire in the south were artificial creations whose boundaries cut across ancient tribal units. It was an assertion of ordered power by an imperialistic West Saxon government riding roughshod over local sentiment and tradition. Exactly when the reorganisation was carried through we cannot be certain, but it is likely that that it should be attributed to Edward's initiative. Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire may have been in existence in 906; perhaps Oxfordshire originated in 911; the west midlands might have been carved up into shires between 918 and 924. In the southern Danelaw, by contrast, Edward was more respectful of earlier arrangements. Essex is the ancient kingdom of the East Saxons, and the 'North-folk' and 'South-folk' of the East Anglian kingdom were perpetuated as the shires of Norfolk and Suffolk. In the east midlands it seems that the Danes had themselves established administrative units which cut across earlier divisions, and Edward preserved these. Thus, for example, the territories of the Danish'army of Northampton' became the English Northamptonshire.

Edward 'the Elder' was the ablest strategist ever produced by the Anglo-Saxons. His campaigns displayed qualities of tenacity and imagination; their follow-up testified to a remarkable ability to organise. Our sources concentrate attention upon his military achievements. But there were others too. The fortresses of Edward's reign were not just military in function. They were intended from the first to be civilian settlements as well as military strongpoints; in a word, towns. Like the burhs of Alfred's reign they were in some cases quite big: Stamford was about twenty-eight acres, Stafford about thirty-eight Warwick about fifty-six. Archaeologists have shown that several of them had planned street-systems. As towns they would have had to be sustained at least to some degree by trade and industry. That this hope was realised is suggested by the history of the coinage. During the reign of Edward's son ¥thelstan Anglo-Saxon coins started to bear the names of the towns where they were struck. Of the Edwardian burhs Chester, Derby, Gloucester, Hereford, Maldon, Nottingham, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Stafford and Tamworth possessed mints in ¥thelstan's reign. It is likely that several towns in this list were striking coin in Edward's day. Further evidence which suggests a lively, developing economy is furnished by Edward's legislation. Of his two legal ordinances the first addressed itself particularly to issues connected with the buying and selling of livestock; and it is significant that the king wished to channel such transactions into the towns.

Edward continued his parents' development and embellishment of Winchester. Early in his reign he founded a religious community there, the New Minster, so-called to distinguish it from the cathedral or Old Minster next door to it: its church was dedicated in 903. He was probably responsible for completing his mother's foundation for women at Winchester, the so-called Nunnaminster, after her death in 902. His daughter Eadburga (d. c. 951) became a nun there and was later regarded as a saint. Edward's religious patronage brought him into contact with foreign churchmen. New Minster was provided with relics of St. Judoc, a Breton saint of the seventh century. We hear casually, in a letter from the prior of Dol in Brittany to King ¥thelstan written in about 926, that Edward had been linked by confraternity to the canons of Dol. Since ¥thelstan acquired relics from this source it is possible that Edward got Judoc's relics from Dol. There may have been more contacts of this type and it is extremely likely that books and works of art also passed to England by such means.

There were in addition diplomatic contacts with foreign rulers. His sister Elfthryth had been married to the Count of Flanders between 893 and 899: Anglo-Flemish contacts remained close throughout the tenth century. Between 917 and 919 Edward married his daughter Eadgifu to Charles, King of the West Frankish kingdom (i.e. France). When Charles was deposed in 922 Eadgifu came back to England as a refugee with her young son Louis. The boy was brought up in England until he was recalled to the throne of France in 936. Louis was not the only political exile in England. There were members of the Breton aristocracy, driven out by Viking invasions of Brittany in 919. Edward's court also attracted foreign churchmen. Theodred, Bishop of London from c. 926 to c. 951, was probably a German: he was promoted to an important bishopric so soon after Edward's death that it is likely that his rise to prominence occurred during the king's reign. Oda, later to be Archbishop of Canterbury, was another foreigner who made his mark under Edward.

Our knowledge of these doings and persons is fragmentary, inferences to be drawn from them hazardous. Such as it is, the evidence suggests that Edward was more than just an exceptionally talented soldier. In historical reputation he has always been somewhat overshadowed by his father and his son. It was his misfortune to have had no Asser to transmit an image of him to posterity. If any such work were composed, which is possible, it has not survived. Yet his achievements were on a par with those of Alfred and ¥thelstan.

In 924 the people of Chester rebelled. Edward went north and suppressed the revolt, and died shortly afterwards at Farndon, a little to the south of Chester, on 17 July. He was buried in the New Minster at Winchester.

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Well-trained by Alfred, his son Edward 'the Elder' (reigned 899-924) was a bold soldier who defeated the Danes in Northumbria at Tettenhall in 910 and was acknowledged by the Viking kingdom of York. The kings of Strathclyde and the Scots submitted to Edward in 921. By military success and patient planning, Edward spread English influence and control. Much of this was due to his alliance with his formidable sister Aethelflaed, who was married to the ruler of Mercia and seems to have governed that kingdom after her husband's death.
Edward was able to establish an administration for the kingdom of England, whilst obtaining the allegiance of Danes, Scots and Britons. Edward died in 924, and he was buried in the New Minster which he had had completed at Winchester. Edward was twice married, but it is possible that his eldest son Athelstan was the son of a mistress.

EDWARD 'THE ELDER' (r. 899-924)

Well-trained by Alfred, his son Edward 'the Elder' (reigned 899-924) was a bold soldier who defeated the Danes in Northumbria at Tettenhall in 910 and was acknowledged by the Viking kingdom of York.

The kings of Strathclyde and the Scots submitted to Edward in 921. By military success and patient planning, Edward spread English influence and control.

Much of this was due to his alliance with his formidable sister Aethelflaed, who was married to the ruler of Mercia and seems to have governed that kingdom after her husband's death.

Edward was able to establish an administration for the kingdom of England, whilst obtaining the allegiance of Danes, Scots and Britons.

Edward died in 924, and he was buried in the New Minster which he had had completed at Winchester.

Edward was twice married, but it is possible that his eldest son Athelstan was the son of a mistress.

Edward together with his sister Ethelfleda of Mercia, fought stoutly against the Danes. Ethelfleda built many forts notably at Chester, Hereford, Bridgenorth, Shrewsbury, Warwick, Gloucester and Tamworth. Known as The Lady of the Mercians, she died in 918 and Mercia was then united with Wessex. In 914, Edward secured the release of the Bishop of Llandaff (Cardiff) who had been captured by the Norsemen and following this, the princes of both North and South Wales pledged their perpetual allegiance to him. Edward doubled the size of the kingdom during his reign. It is now generally acknowledged that Edward died on the 7th July 924 but some historians give the date as 925.

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Edward together with his sister Ethelfleda of Mercia, fought stoutly against the Danes. Ethelfleda built many forts notably at Chester, Hereford, Bridgenorth, Shrewsbury, Warwick, Gloucester and Tamworth. Known as The Lady of the Mercians, she died in 918 and Mercia was then united with Wessex. In 914, Edward secured the release of the Bishop of Llandaff (Cardiff) who had been captured by the Norsemen and following this, the princes of both North and South Wales pledged their perpetual allegiance to him. Edward doubled the size of the kingdom during his reign. It is now generally acknowledged that Edward died on the 7th July 924 but some historians give the date as 925.

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the Elder, King of England, 901-924; m. (3) 919, Eadgifu,- dau. of Sigehelm, Earl of Kent. (ASC 424, 925; DNB I 157; NSE X 193).
Enjoy, and may this help you find your distant ancestors. Tom Barton.

He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920)

[anc of thomas tracy from ancestry.FTW]

Edgina was Edward's 3rd wife. He reined 901-925.
*Reference: "The Tracy Family" compiled by Scott Lee Boyd, Santa
Barbara, CA, April, 1933.
According to Brian Tompsett's Royal Genealogy, Edward the Elder reigned from 899 to 924, and defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920).

Hallowed by the people but never canonized, who was born in 1080, died at Carlisle 24 May 1153. He was King of Scotland from 1124 until his death. David was a wise and just king.
In 1113 he married Matilda, who died in 1131, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland, and Judith, his wife, a niece of William the Conqueror.

[2907] BIRTH: RULERS.ENG (Compuserve)
WSHNGT.ASC file abt 871/872
"Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists ..." b 875
EDWARD3.DOC b 871

DEATH: Anglo-Saxon England, Frank Stenton p. 339, COMYN4.TAF (Compuserve Roots), p. 6 says ABT 924, Americans of Royal Descent, Charles H. Browning; WSHNGT.ASC file, d at Farrington, Berkshire, England

King of Wessex (899-924). He fought with his father against the Danes and was apparently joint king with him. He gradually became ruler of all England south of the Humber. - Encyclopedia, p 254
Had children by his concubine Ecgwyna and contracted a legitimate marriage only after the death of his father ... subsequently married twice, probably repudiating one wife - Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, p. 106

United English, claimed Scotland - RULERS.ENG (Compuserve)

MARRIAGE: Anglo-Saxon England, P.H. Blair PAGE 193

ROYALS.GED, b. abt 871, d. & bur. place

COLVER31.TXT file: b. 873

WSHNGT.ASC file (Geo Washington Ahnentafel) # 34900592 = 3682832, b 871/72, d 17 Jul 925 Farrington, Berkshire

"Anglo Saxon Chronicle", Part 1:
A.D. 495. 'Then succeeded Edward, the son of Alfred, and reigned twenty-four winters.'

"Anglo Saxon Chronicle", Part 2:
A.D. 920. This year, before midsummer, went King Edward to Maldon; and repaired and fortified the town, ere he departed thence.

A.D. 921. This year, before Easter, King Edward ordered his men to go to the town of Towcester, and to rebuild it. Then again, after that, in the same year, during the gang-days, he ordered the town of Wigmore to be repaired. The same summer, betwixt Lammas and midsummer, the army broke their parole from Northampton and from Leicester; and went thence northward to Towcester, and fought against the town all day, and thought that they should break into it; but the people that were therein defended it, till more aid came to them; and the enemy then abandoned the town, and went away. Then again, very soon after this, they went out at night for plunder, and came upon men unaware, and seized not a little, both in men and cattle, betwixt Burnham-wood and Aylesbury. At the same time went the army from Huntington and East-Anglia, and constructed that work at Ternsford; which they inhabited and fortified; and abandoned the other at Huntingdon; and thought that they should thence oft with war and contention recover a good deal of this land. Thence they advanced till they came to Bedford; where the men who were within came out against them, and fought with them, and put them to flight, and slew a good number of them. Then again, after this, a great army yet collected itself from East-Anglia and from Mercia, and went to the town of Wigmore; which they besieged without, and fought against long in the day; and took the cattle about it; but the men defended the town, who were within; and the enemy left the town, and went away. After this, the same summer, a large force collected itself in King Edward's dominions, from the nighest towns that could go thither, and went to Temsford; and they beset the town, and fought thereon; until they broke into it, and slew the king, and Earl Toglos, and Earl Mann his son, and his brother, and all them that were therein, and who were resolved to defend it; and they took the others, and all that was therein. After this, a great force collected soon in harvest, from Kent, from Surrey, from Essex, and everywhere from the nighest towns; and went to Colchester, and beset the town, and fought thereon till they took it, and slew all the people, and seized all that was therein; except those men who escaped therefrom over the wall. After this again, this same harvest, a great army collected itself from East-Anglia, both of the land-forces and of the pirates, which they had enticed to their assistance, and thought that they should wreak their vengeance. They went to Maldon, and beset the town, and fought thereon, until more aid came to the townsmen from without to help. The enemy then abandoned the town, and went from it. And the men went after, out of the town, and also those that came from without to their aid; and put the army to flight, and slew many hundreds of them, both of the pirates and of the others. Soon after this, the same harvest, went King Edward with the West-Saxon army to Passham; and sat there the while that men fortified the town of Towcester with a stone wall. And there returned to him Earl Thurferth, and the captains, and all the army that belonged to Northampton northward to the Welland, and sought him for their lord and protector. When this division of the army went home, then went another out, and marched to the town of Huntingdon; and repaired and renewed it, where it was broken down before, by command of King Edward. And all the people of the country that were left submitted to King Edward, and sought his peace and protection. After this, the same year, before Martinmas, went King Edward with the West-Saxon army to Colchester; and repaired and renewed the town, where it was broken down before. And much people turned to him. both in East-Anglia and in Essex, that were before under the power of the Danes. And all the army in East-Anglia swore union with him; that they would all that he would, and would protect all that he protected, either by sea or land. And the army that belonged to Cambridge chose him separately for their lord and protector, and confirmed the same with oaths, as he had advised. This year King Edward repaired the town of Gladmouth; and the same year King Sihtric slew Neil his brother.

A.D. 922. This year, betwixt gang-days and midsummer, went King Edward with his army to Stamford, and ordered the town to be fortified on the south side of the river. And all the people that belonged to the northern town submitted to him, and sought him for their lord. ...[He] then [after Ethelfleda his sister died at Tamworth] rode he to the borough of Tamworth; and all the population in Mercia turned to him, who before were subject to Ethelfleda. And the kings in North-Wales, Howel, and Cledauc, and Jothwel, and all the people of North-Wales, sought him for their lord. Then went he thence to Nottingham, and secured that borough, and ordered it to be repaired, and manned both with English and with Danes. And all the population turned to him, that was settled in Mercia, both Danish and English.

A.D. 923. This year went King Edward with an army, late in the harvest, to Thelwall; and ordered the borough to be repaired, and inhabited, and manned. And he ordered another army also from the population of Mercia, the while he sat there to go to Manchester in Northumbria, to repair and to man it.

A.D. 924. This year, before midsummer, went King Edward with an army to Nottingham; and ordered the town to be repaired on the south side of the river, opposite the other, and the bridge over the Trent betwixt the two towns.
Thence he went to Bakewell in Peakland; and ordered a fort to be built as near as possible to it, and manned. And the King of Scotland, with all his people, chose him as father and lord; as did Reynold, and the son of Eadulf, and all that dwell in Northumbria, both English and Danish, both Northmen and others; also the king of the Strathclydwallians, and all his people.

[this and the following are from different MS versions of the A-S C] ((A.D. 924. This year Edward was chosen for father and for lord by the king of the Scots, and by the Scots, and King Reginald, and by all the North-humbrians, and also the king of the Strath-clyde Britons, and by all the Strath-clyde Britons.))

((A.D. 924. This year King Edward died among the Mercians at Farndon; and very shortly, about sixteen days after this, Elward his son died at Oxford; and their bodies lie at Winchester.))

A.D. 925. This year died King Edward at Farndon in Mercia; and Elward his son died ...

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Name: Edward I "The Elder" King Of ENGLAND
Given Name: Edward I "The Elder" King Of
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Birth: Abt 0871 in , , Wessex, England 1
Death: 0924 in , Farrington, Berkshire, England 1
Burial: Winchester Cathedral, London, Middlesex, England 1
Birth: Abt. 871 in Wessex, England
Birth: 0875 in ,,Wessex, England 2
Birth: 0875 in Wessex, England 3
Birth: 0899 4 4
Death: 0923 4 4
Death: 0924 5
Death: Jul 0924 in ,Farrington, Berkshire, England 2
Death: 17 Jul 0924 in Fardon-on-Dee, Cheshire, England
Death: 17 Jul 0924 in Farndon on Dee, England 3
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Event: RULED Unknown Bet. 899 - 924 King Of England 1
Event: Reigned Date: Unknown 0899 2
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Event: Unknown-Begin Unknown Oct 988-Summer 924 3
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Alias: the /Elder/
REFN: 1414
Royalty for Commoners by Robert W. Stuart , Genealogical Publishing Co.,
Revised 2nd Edition, 1995:
Gen 233-38 - Edwar d "the Elder", King of England, 889-924: King of
Wessex; b. 875, Wessex; d. J uly 924, Ferrington; m. (3) 919 Berkshire,
England, Eadgifu (Edgiva) of Kent, b. c896, Kent; d. 28 Aug 968; dau of
Sigehelm, Earldorman of Kent (d. after 962). Edward was a Bretwala (King
of Kings).
ACADEMIC AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
EDWARD THE ELDER, KING OF WESSEX
The Anglo-Saxon king EDWARD THE ELDER, ru led 899-924, unified most of
England south of the Humber River. He succeeded his father, ALFRED, as
king of Wessex and continued the wars of resistance ag ainst the Danes.
Conducting a series of joint campaigns with his sister, AETH ELFLAED of
Mercia, he destroyed a Danish army in 910 and by 918 had virtually
extinguished Danish power in
England. On Aethelflaed's death in the same y ear, English Mercia was
incorporated into Wessex. In 920, Edward received the formal submissions
of Raegnald, the Scandinavian king of York; Ealdred, rule r of English
Northumbria; the Welsh king of Strathclyde; and possibly Constan tine II
of Scotland. He died on July 17, 924, and was succeeded by his son
ATHELSTAN.
EAST ANGLIA
East Anglia, one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Engl and, borders on the
North Sea and includes the modern counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Low,
forested hills separate the Fens (now drained and cultivated) in the west
from the shallow river valleys with flooded peat hollows ("Broads ") and
estuaries in the east.
East Anglia was settled in the 5th century by Saxons, Angles, Swabians,
and Frisians. Little is known of early East Anglia n kings prior to
Raedwald (r. c.600-627). Raedwald was converted to Christian ity, and his
son founded (c.630) a see at Dunwich for the Burgundian bishop F elix.
Rivalry with Mericia led to the subjugation of East Anglia by the mid-7 th
century. Danish invasions from the mid-9th century resulted in the

inclu sion (886) of East Anglia under Danelaw. In 917 the Danes were
defeated by ED WARD THE ELDER, and East Anglia became an earldom of
England.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online at britannica.com:
Edward
died July 17, 924, Farndon on Dee , Eng.
by name Edward The Elder Anglo-Saxon king in England, the son of Alfre d
the Great. As ruler of the West Saxons, or Wessex, from 899 to 924,
Edwar d extended his authority over almost all of England by conquering
areas that previously had been held by Danish invaders.
Edward ascended the throne upon h is father's death in October 899, and
in a battle in 902 his forces killed a rival claimant, Aethelwald, who
had allied with the Danes. After defeating th e Northumbrian Danes at
Tettenhall, he set out in August 912 to subdue the Da nes of the eastern
Midlands and East Anglia. From 910 to 916 he constructed a series of
fortified enclosures around his Kingdom of Wessex.
At the same ti me, his sister, the Mercian ruler Aethelflaed,
constructed a complementary se ries of fortresses in the northwest
Midlands. In 917 Edward and Aethelflaed l aunched a massive offensive,
quickly overwhelming the entire Danish army of E ast Anglia. Upon
Aethelflaed's death in June 918, Edward assumed control of M ercia, and by
the end of the year th

Father: Alfred "The Great" King Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0848 in Of, Wantage, Berkshire, England
Mother: Ealhswith Queen Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0852 in , Mercia, , England

Marriage 1 Edgifu (Edgiva) De SIGELLINE b: Abt 0896 in , , Kent, England
Married: 0919 in , , Wessex, England 2 3
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Children
Edburh Princess Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0918 in , , Wessex, England
Edgiva, Princess Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0920 in , , Wessex, England
Edmund I "The Magnificent" King Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0922 in , , Wessex, England
Edred King Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0924 in , , Wessex, England

Marriage 2 Aelflaeda AETHELHELMSDATTER b: Abt 0878 in Of, , Wessex, England
Married: Bef. 919 3
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Children
Ethelwerd Or Elfwerd Prince Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0900 in , , Wessex, England
Edwin Prince Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0902 in , , Wessex, England
Elfleda Princess Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0903 in , , Wessex, England
Eadgifu Ogiven Of FRANCE b: Abt. 904 in Wessex, England
Ethile (Eadhilde) Princess Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0908 in Of, , Wessex, England
Editha Princess Of ENGLAND b: Abt 0910 in Of, , Wessex, England
Elgiva Of ENGLAND b: Abt. 912 in England
Edhilda Of SAXONY b: Abt. 922

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HIST ACCEDED TO THE THRONE UPON THE DEATH OF ALFRED THE GREAT IN 899.
HIST IN 912, DEFEATED THE DANES AT THE BATTLE OF TETTANHALL AND ADVANCED ONTO EAST ANGLIA. DEFEATED THE DANES IN 918, TOOK MERCIA, CONQUERED PORTIONS OF NORTHUMBRIA IN 920.
HIST AETHELSTAN SUCCEEDS HIM AFTER HIS DEATH IN 925
DATE 22 MAY 2000

ALIA The /Elder/

Edward the Elder.

Edward the Elder.

OCCU King of Wessex ...
SOUR RULERS.ENG (Compuserve) says 869; HAWKINS.GED says 871;
GWALTNEY.ANC (Compuserve) 1016089664 says 870;
GODWIN.TXT says CIR 870; Royalty for Commeners, p. 171 says 875, Wessex
SOUR Anglo-Saxon England, Frank Stenton, p. 339; HAWKINS.GED says 26 Aug 924;
Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171 says Jul 924, Ferrington;
COMYNI.GED (Compuserve) says ABT Nov 924; COMYN4.TAF (Comp), p. 6 says ABT 924
SOUR HAWKINS.GED; www.teleport.com/ddonahue/donahue ;
King of Wessex (899-924). He fought with his father against the Danes and was
apparently joint king with him. He gradually became ruler of all England
south of the Humber. - Encyclopedia, p 254
Had children by his concubine Ecgwyna and contracted a legitimate marriage
only after the death of his father ... subsequently married twice, probably
repudiating one wife - Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, p. 106
EDWARD THE ELDER, son of ALFRED THE GREAT and EALHSWITH, ...was so handicapped by an unruly temper and ungoverned speech that many of the nobility would have preferred Ethelred for their king.
Edward was duly crowned, and in his brief reign, troubled
by divided opinion, some of the monasteries which had been enriched and enlarged under his pious father and Dunstan's influence were stripped of their recent endowment by neighbouring landowners who
may have distrusted the growing influence of the
church, and
certainly resented the late diminishment of their own importance ... Three years after his accession, Ewad was murdered, at Corfe in Dorset, where he had gone to visit his stepmother and his
half-brother Ethelred. It was the 18th March, and in the
evening he rode back, after hunting, and outside the castle was surrounded by men of the household. A cry escapes that impenetrable scene - 'What do ye, breaking my right arm?' - and the young king,
still upon his horse, was stabbed to death at the
instigation of unknown conspirators.
Ethelred was too young to have been involved, and there is no evidence that his mother was implicated. But Edward was buried without royal honours, and no one was punished for his death, though the
Chronicle declares that 'no worse deed than this for
the English people was committed since first they came to Britain.' Edward, the unruly boy, got a martyr's fame, and his tomb inspired a legend of the miracles wrought above it; while Ethelred was
crowned king an an air that was heavy with suspicion -
The Conquest of England, Eric
Linklater, p. 110
United English, Claimed Scotland, ruled 899-924 - RULERS.ENG (Compuserve)
King of England, 899-924; King of Wessex. Edward was a Bretwala (King of Kings) - Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171
The Ango-Saxon form of his name is Eadweard. This Edward, the son of Alfred, is known as Edward the Elder. His reign was from 901 to 924. He was buried beside his father at Winchester, in the "New
Minster" which Alfred had begun and which he himself
finished. - A Short History of England, Edward P. Cheyney, p. 69
The Unconque; died 925, Forndon, Northamptonshire, England - http://misc.traveller.com/genealo gy/gedhtml/kmilburn/d0002/g0000003.htm#I1440

OCCU King of Wessex ...
SOUR RULERS.ENG (Compuserve) says 869; HAWKINS.GED says 871;
GWALTNEY.ANC (Compuserve) 1016089664 says 870;
GODWIN.TXT says CIR 870; Royalty for Commeners, p. 171 says 875, Wessex
SOUR Anglo-Saxon England, Frank Stenton, p. 339; HAWKINS.GED says 26 Aug 924;
Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171 says Jul 924, Ferrington;
COMYNI.GED (Compuserve) says ABT Nov 924; COMYN4.TAF (Comp), p. 6 says ABT 924
SOUR HAWKINS.GED; www.teleport.com/ddonahue/donahue ;
King of Wessex (899-924). He fought with his father against the Danes and was
apparently joint king with him. He gradually became ruler of all England
south of the Humber. - Encyclopedia, p 254
Had children by his concubine Ecgwyna and contracted a legitimate marriage
only after the death of his father ... subsequently married twice, probably
repudiating one wife - Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, p. 106
EDWARD THE ELDER, son of ALFRED THE GREAT and EALHSWITH, ...was so handicapped by an unruly temper and ungoverned speech that many of the nobility would have preferred Ethelred for their king.
Edward was duly crowned, and in his brief reign, troubled
by divided opinion, some of the monasteries which had been enriched and enlarged under his pious father and Dunstan's influence were stripped of their recent endowment by neighbouring landowners who
may have distrusted the growing influence of the
church, and
certainly resented the late diminishment of their own importance ... Three years after his accession, Ewad was murdered, at Corfe in Dorset, where he had gone to visit his stepmother and his
half-brother Ethelred. It was the 18th March, and in the
evening he rode back, after hunting, and outside the castle was surrounded by men of the household. A cry escapes that impenetrable scene - 'What do ye, breaking my right arm?' - and the young king,
still upon his horse, was stabbed to death at the
instigation of unknown conspirators.
Ethelred was too young to have been involved, and there is no evidence that his mother was implicated. But Edward was buried without royal honours, and no one was punished for his death, though the
Chronicle declares that 'no worse deed than this for
the English people was committed since first they came to Britain.' Edward, the unruly boy, got a martyr's fame, and his tomb inspired a legend of the miracles wrought above it; while Ethelred was
crowned king an an air that was heavy with suspicion -
The Conquest of England, Eric
Linklater, p. 110
United English, Claimed Scotland, ruled 899-924 - RULERS.ENG (Compuserve)
King of England, 899-924; King of Wessex. Edward was a Bretwala (King of Kings) - Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171
The Ango-Saxon form of his name is Eadweard. This Edward, the son of Alfred, is known as Edward the Elder. His reign was from 901 to 924. He was buried beside his father at Winchester, in the "New
Minster" which Alfred had begun and which he himself
finished. - A Short History of England, Edward P. Cheyney, p. 69
The Unconque; died 925, Forndon, Northamptonshire, England - http://misc.traveller.com/genealo gy/gedhtml/kmilburn/d0002/g0000003.htm#I1440

OCCU King of Wessex ...
SOUR RULERS.ENG (Compuserve) says 869; HAWKINS.GED says 871;
GWALTNEY.ANC (Compuserve) 1016089664 says 870;
GODWIN.TXT says CIR 870; Royalty for Commeners, p. 171 says 875, Wessex
SOUR Anglo-Saxon England, Frank Stenton, p. 339; HAWKINS.GED says 26 Aug 924;
Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171 says Jul 924, Ferrington;
COMYNI.GED (Compuserve) says ABT Nov 924; COMYN4.TAF (Comp), p. 6 says ABT 924
SOUR HAWKINS.GED; www.teleport.com/ddonahue/donahue ;
King of Wessex (899-924). He fought with his father against the Danes and was
apparently joint king with him. He gradually became ruler of all England
south of the Humber. - Encyclopedia, p 254
Had children by his concubine Ecgwyna and contracted a legitimate marriage
only after the death of his father ... subsequently married twice, probably
repudiating one wife - Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, p. 106
EDWARD THE ELDER, son of ALFRED THE GREAT and EALHSWITH, ...was so handicapped by an unruly temper and ungoverned speech that many of the nobility would have preferred Ethelred for their king.
Edward was duly crowned, and in his brief reign, troubled
by divided opinion, some of the monasteries which had been enriched and enlarged under his pious father and Dunstan's influence were stripped of their recent endowment by neighbouring landowners who
may have distrusted the growing influence of the
church, and
certainly resented the late diminishment of their own importance ... Three years after his accession, Ewad was murdered, at Corfe in Dorset, where he had gone to visit his stepmother and his
half-brother Ethelred. It was the 18th March, and in the
evening he rode back, after hunting, and outside the castle was surrounded by men of the household. A cry escapes that impenetrable scene - 'What do ye, breaking my right arm?' - and the young king,
still upon his horse, was stabbed to death at the
instigation of unknown conspirators.
Ethelred was too young to have been involved, and there is no evidence that his mother was implicated. But Edward was buried without royal honours, and no one was punished for his death, though the
Chronicle declares that 'no worse deed than this for
the English people was committed since first they came to Britain.' Edward, the unruly boy, got a martyr's fame, and his tomb inspired a legend of the miracles wrought above it; while Ethelred was
crowned king an an air that was heavy with suspicion -
The Conquest of England, Eric
Linklater, p. 110
United English, Claimed Scotland, ruled 899-924 - RULERS.ENG (Compuserve)
King of England, 899-924; King of Wessex. Edward was a Bretwala (King of Kings) - Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171
The Ango-Saxon form of his name is Eadweard. This Edward, the son of Alfred, is known as Edward the Elder. His reign was from 901 to 924. He was buried beside his father at Winchester, in the "New
Minster" which Alfred had begun and which he himself
finished. - A Short History of England, Edward P. Cheyney, p. 69
The Unconque; died 925, Forndon, Northamptonshire, England - http://misc.traveller.com/genealo gy/gedhtml/kmilburn/d0002/g0000003.htm#I1440

OCCU King of Wessex ...
SOUR RULERS.ENG (Compuserve) says 869; HAWKINS.GED says 871;
GWALTNEY.ANC (Compuserve) 1016089664 says 870;
GODWIN.TXT says CIR 870; Royalty for Commeners, p. 171 says 875, Wessex
SOUR Anglo-Saxon England, Frank Stenton, p. 339; HAWKINS.GED says 26 Aug 924;
Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171 says Jul 924, Ferrington;
COMYNI.GED (Compuserve) says ABT Nov 924; COMYN4.TAF (Comp), p. 6 says ABT 924
SOUR HAWKINS.GED; www.teleport.com/ddonahue/donahue ;
King of Wessex (899-924). He fought with his father against the Danes and was
apparently joint king with him. He gradually became ruler of all England
south of the Humber. - Encyclopedia, p 254
Had children by his concubine Ecgwyna and contracted a legitimate marriage
only after the death of his father ... subsequently married twice, probably
repudiating one wife - Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, p. 106
EDWARD THE ELDER, son of ALFRED THE GREAT and EALHSWITH, ...was so handicapped by an unruly temper and ungoverned speech that many of the nobility would have preferred Ethelred for their king.
Edward was duly crowned, and in his brief reign, troubled
by divided opinion, some of the monasteries which had been enriched and enlarged under his pious father and Dunstan's influence were stripped of their recent endowment by neighbouring landowners who
may have distrusted the growing influence of the
church, and
certainly resented the late diminishment of their own importance ... Three years after his accession, Ewad was murdered, at Corfe in Dorset, where he had gone to visit his stepmother and his
half-brother Ethelred. It was the 18th March, and in the
evening he rode back, after hunting, and outside the castle was surrounded by men of the household. A cry escapes that impenetrable scene - 'What do ye, breaking my right arm?' - and the young king,
still upon his horse, was stabbed to death at the
instigation of unknown conspirators.
Ethelred was too young to have been involved, and there is no evidence that his mother was implicated. But Edward was buried without royal honours, and no one was punished for his death, though the
Chronicle declares that 'no worse deed than this for
the English people was committed since first they came to Britain.' Edward, the unruly boy, got a martyr's fame, and his tomb inspired a legend of the miracles wrought above it; while Ethelred was
crowned king an an air that was heavy with suspicion -
The Conquest of England, Eric
Linklater, p. 110
United English, Claimed Scotland, ruled 899-924 - RULERS.ENG (Compuserve)
King of England, 899-924; King of Wessex. Edward was a Bretwala (King of Kings) - Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171
The Ango-Saxon form of his name is Eadweard. This Edward, the son of Alfred, is known as Edward the Elder. His reign was from 901 to 924. He was buried beside his father at Winchester, in the "New
Minster" which Alfred had begun and which he himself
finished. - A Short History of England, Edward P. Cheyney, p. 69
The Unconque; died 925, Forndon, Northamptonshire, England - http://misc.traveller.com/genealo gy/gedhtml/kmilburn/d0002/g0000003.htm#I1440

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Edward the Elder (died 924), king of Wessex (899-924), son of King Alfred. He succeeded as king of the Angles and Saxons in 899, despite a rebellion led by his cousin Ethelwald with the support of
the Danes of Northumbria and East Anglia. After a protracted struggle he defeated the Danes, and in 912, on the death of his brother-in-law Ethelred, alderman of Mercia, he annexed the cities of
London and Oxford and their environs. The Danes submitted formally in 918, and soon thereafter the sovereignty of Edward was acknowledged by the North Welsh, the Scots, the Northumbrians, and the
Welsh of Strathclyde. Edward was succeeded by his son Athelstan.
Source: "Edward the Elder," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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GIVN Edward I, King of
SURN England
AFN 9GB3-CL
EVEN Edward; Eadward or Eadweard
TYPE AKA
EVEN Angles and the Saxons
TYPE Ruled
DATE BET 899 AND 924
PLAC England
EVEN England
TYPE Ruled
DATE BET 901 AND 925
EVEN Defeated the Danes
TYPE Achievements
DATE 918
PLAC Taking East Anglia & Mercia
EVEN Defeated Danes
TYPE Achievements
DATE 920
PLAC Northumbria (Aka St. Oswald) - Son of Edwin
DATE 11 SEP 2000
TIME 21:35:37

EVEN
TYPE Acceded
DATE 31 MAY 900
PLAC Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, EnglandReigned 899-924. He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920).

GIVN Edward "The Elder" King of
SURN ENGLAND
DATE 15 Dec 2000
HIST: @N487@

HIST ACCEDED TO THE THRONE UPON THE DEATH OF ALFRED THE GREAT IN 899.
HIST IN 912, DEFEATED THE DANES AT THE BATTLE OF TETTANHALL AND ADVANCED ONTO EAST ANGLIA. DEFEATED THE DANES IN 918, TOOK MERCIA, CONQUERED PORTIONS OF NORTHUMBRIA IN 920.
HIST AETHELSTAN SUCCEEDS HIM AFTER HIS DEATH IN 925
DATE 22 MAY 2000Sources: RC 233, 261, 321, 359, 376; Coe; A. Roots 1-16, 1 6, 45; AF; Warrior
Kings; Shorter History of England; Through the Ages; K and Q of Britain;
Pfafman; Kraentzler 1470, 1475, 1631; Kirby; Young; Magna Charta Sureties
161-2.
Edward was a Bretwala (King of Kings). First King of all Eng land. Ruled from
899-924. K&Q says from 899-925. Several daughters became nuns .
K: Edward I, "The Pious."
Roots: Edward the Elder, Saxon King of England, m arried (2) Alfflaed, (3)
Eadgifu.
Sureties: Edward I, the Elder, King of Engl and 901-924. Born 875 and died
924.
Kirby: Eadweard.
Young: Edward the Elder , died 924, King of England and overlord of the Welsh
princes.
Warrior Kings: "Edward, eldest son, was a warrior rather than a scholar,
though in this capa city he probably took a good deal of weight from his
father's shoulders. The r elationship between father and son seems to have been
amicable."Dead

Note: King of England from 899-924. A solider trained by his father, Alfred, who was able to greatly spread English influence over the Danes, Scots, Britons (in Wales) and in Europe. Some believe that his eldest son, Athelstan, was actually the son of a mistress.

Dead

In 917 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded: 'Many people who had been under the rule of the Danes both in East Anglia and in Essex submitted to him; and all the army in East Anglia swore agreement with him, that they would agree to all that he would, and would keep peace with all with whom the king wishes to keep peace, both at sea and on land.' Overshadowed by his father Alfred and upstaged by his son Athelstan, it was Edward who reconquered much of England from the Danes (909-919), established an administration for the kingdom of England, and secured the allegiance of Danes, Scots, Britons, and English. Using Alfred's methods and in alliance with Mercia, he spread English influence and control. The Danes of Northumbria were defeated (910) at Tettenhall (in Staffordshire), the Viking kingdom of York acknowledged his power in 918, and most Welsh kings submitted to him. In 921 the submission of not only Viking York and Northumbria but also of the kings of Strathclyde and of the Scots gave his kingdom primacy in the British Isles.
Edward was a patient planner, systematic organizer, and a bold soldier; by the time he died, he had completed the New Minster at Winchester where he himself was buried. Though twice married, his eldest son and successor, Athelstan, was the son of a mistress.

!Name is; Edward I, "The Elder" King Of /ENGLAND/

!I am not sure where this Edward fits in, his birth date does not fit?

Edward the Elder (Old English : Eadweard se Ieldra) (c. 870 - 17 July 924) was an Anglo-Saxon English king . He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great . His court was at Winchester , previously the capital of Wessex . He captured the eastern Midlands and East Anglia from the Danes in 917 and became ruler of Mercia in 918 upon the death of Æthelflæd , his sister.
All but two of his charters give his title as "king of the Anglo-Saxons" (Anglorum Saxonum rex).[1] He was the second king of the Anglo-Saxons as this title was created by Alfred.[1] Edward's coinage reads "EADVVEARD REX."[2] The chroniclers record that all England "accepted Edward as lord" in 920.[3] But the fact that York continued to produce its own coinage suggests that Edward's authority was not accepted in Northumbria .[4] Edward's eponym "the Elder" was first used in Wulfstan 's Life of St Æthelwold (tenth century) to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr .
Of the five children born to Alfred and Ealhswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877. [5]
Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth . His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned Old English, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".[6]
The first appearance of Edward in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire , to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son.[7] Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred , Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status.[8] As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Ealhswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.[9]
When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Æthelwold , the son of King Æthelred of Wessex , rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt . He seized Wimborne , in Dorset , where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire , now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Æthelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Æthelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria , where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [10]
In 901, Æthelwold came with a fleet to Essex , and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon . Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme . Æthelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.
Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[11]
In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria . In the following year, the Northumbrians retaliated by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall , where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the River Humber .
Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford , Witham and Bridgnorth . He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth , Stafford , Eddisbury and Warwick . These burhs were built to the same specifications (within centimetres) as those within the territory that his father had controlled; it has been suggested on this basis that Edward actually built them all.[12]
Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia , East Anglia and Essex , conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Æthelflæd . Ætheflæd's daughter, Ælfwynn , was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[13] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.
Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning , Wells and Crediton . Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[14]
He died leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester , Hampshire , which he himself had established in 901. After the Norman Conquest , the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.
The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan 's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr .
Edward had four siblings, including Æthelflæd , Lady of the Mercians, and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders .
King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, and may have had illegitimate children too.
Edward first married Ecgwynn around 893 and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric Cáech , King of Dublin and York in 926. Nothing is known about Ecgwynn other than her name, which was not even recorded until after the Conquest.[15][16]
When he became king in 899, Edward married Ælfflæd , a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire .[17] Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ; Eadgifu , whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple ; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great , Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps ", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia ; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933[18] was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.
Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Eadgifu ,[17] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent . They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Eadred , and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married Louis l'Aveugle .
Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar . William of Malmsbury 's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Ælfflæd, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

Edward I, the Elder (900-24 AD)

Son of Alfred the Great, Edward immediately succeeded his father to the throne. His main achievement was to use the military platform created by his father to bring back, under English control, the whole of the Danelaw, south of the Humber River.

Source: Britannia.com

His various wives are unclear as to dates of marriage and children attached to each.

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Edward the Elder
King of England

Reign
October 26, 899 - July 17, 924
Born
c.869-877
Wessex, England
Died
July 17, 924
Buried
Winchester Cathedral
Married
Egwina, Elfleda, and Edgiva
Parents
Alfred the Great
Ealhswith
Edward the Elder (Old English: ?adweard) (c.874-877 – July 17, 924) was King of England (899 – 924). He was the son of Alfred the Great and became King of Wessex upon his father's death in 899.
Edward arguably exceeded Alfred's military achievements, restoring the Danelaw to Saxon rule and reigning in Mercia from 918, after the death of his sister, Æ?elfleda. He spent his early reign fighting his cousin Æ?elwald, son of Æ?elræd I. He had about eighteen children from his three marriages, and may have had an illegitimate child, too. He died in 924 and was buried at Winchester. Eadmund I, or Edmund the Deed-Doer (921–May 26, 946) who was King of England from 939 was a son of Edward the Elder, and a half-brother to Æ?elstan.
Athelstan died on October 27, 939, and Edmund succeeded him as King. The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century.
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Family
Edward married Ecgwynn around 893, and they became the parents of Æ?elstan and a daughter who married King Sihtric of York, but Ecgwynn's status was considered too lowly. When he became king in 899, Edward set Ecgwynn aside and married Ælffæd , a daughter of the ealdorman of Wiltshire. Their son was the future king Æ?elweard, and their daughter Eadgyth married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. Their other Daughter Eadgifu married Charles the Simple.
Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Eadgifu, the daughter of the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons, Eadmund and Eadred, and one daughter Eadburh.
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Sources
• Higham, N.J. Edward the Elder, 2001

[Jeremiah Brown.FTW]

[from Ancestry.com 81120.GED, references the Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy, p49]

Edward the Elder (899-924), king of the West Saxons. Though overshadowed by his father Alfred and upstaged by his son Athelstan, it was Edward who reconquered much of England from the Danes (909-919), permanently united Mercia with Wessex (918-919), established an administration for the kingdom of England, and secured the allegiance of the Danes, Scots, Britons, and English. Well educated and well trained by Alfred, he nevertheless had to overcome a rival for the throne (899-903).

Using Alfred's methods and in an alliance with Mercia, he spread English influence and control. The Danes of Northumbria were defeated (910) at Tettenhall, Staffordshire, the Viking kingdom of York acknowledged his power (918), and most Welsh kings submitted to him. In 921 the submission not only of Viking York and Northumbria but also of the kings of Strathclyde and the Scots gave his kingdom primacy in the British Isles. Edward was a patient planner and systematic organizer, as well as a bold soldier. By the time he died, he had completed the New Minster at Winchester, where he himself was buried. Though twice married, his eldest son and successor, Athelstan, was the son of a mistress.

[from Ancestry.com 139798.GED]

Edward I, "The Elder", "The Unconquered King", was born about 870 and died about 924. He reigned 24 years. He was not, like his father, a legislator or a scholar, although it is said that he founded the University of Cambridge, but he was a great warrior, He gradually extended his sway over the whole island, in which project he was assisted by his sister the "Lacy of Mercia" who headed her own troops and gained victories over both the Danes and Britons. Tradition assigns to Edward an even wider rule shortly before his death. In the middle of the ninth century the Picts and the Scots had been amalgamated under Kenneth MacAlpin, the King of the Scots, just as Mercia and Wessex were being welded together by the attacks of the Danes. It is said that in 925 the King of the Scots, together with other northern rulers, chose Edward "to father and lord". Probably this statement only covers some act of alliance formed by the English King wight the King of Scots and other lesser rulers. Nothing was more natural than that of the Scottish King, Constantine, should wish to obtain the support of Edward against his enemies; and it is natural that if Edward agreed to support him he would require some acknowledgement of the superiority of the English King. After a prosperous reign, Edward died in Forndon, Northamptonshire in 925.

#Générale##Générale#Profession : Roi des Anglo-Saxons de 901 à 924.

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Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 870 – 17 July 924) was King of England (899 – 924). He was the son of Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd se Grēata) and Alfred's wife, Ealhswith, and became King upon his father's death in 899.

Three marriages:

A: Ecgwynn - three children

1. Ælfred

2. Æthelstan, King of Wessex

3. Eadgyth, married Sithric, King of York

B: Ælfflæd Æthelhelmsdottir of Wiltshire, eight (nine) children:

4. Ædfletha

5. (?) Æthelfletha

6. Eadgifu, married Charles III and Herbert

7. Ælfweard

8. Eadwine

9. Æthelhild

10. Eadhild, married Hugues Capet

11. Eadgyth, married Otto von Germania

12. Ælfgifu, wrongly assumed married to Boleslaw

C: Eadgifu daughter of Sigehelm of Kent

four children:

13. Edmund the Magnificent

14. Eadburgha

15. Eadgifu, married Ludwig Graf im Thurgau

16. Eadred

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Elder

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He was king at a time when the Kingdom of Wessex was becoming transformed into the Kingdom of England. The title he normally used was "King of the Anglo-Saxons"; most authorities do regard him as a king of England, although the territory he ruled over was significantly smaller than the present borders of England.

Of the five children born to Alfred and Eahlswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's name was a new one among the West Saxon ruling family. His siblings were named for their father and other previous kings, but Edward was perhaps named for his maternal grandmother Eadburh, of Mercian origin and possibly a kinswoman of Mercian kings Coenwulf and Ceolwulf. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877.

Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth. His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned Old English, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".

The first appearance of Edward, called filius regis, the king's son in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son. Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred, Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status. As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Eahlswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.

When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Aethelwold, the son of King Ethelred of Wessex, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Aethelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Aethelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900

In 901, Aethelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Aethelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians retaliated by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the River Humber.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick.

Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Ethelfleda (Æðelflǣd). Ethelfleda's daughter, Ælfwynn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord". This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.

He died leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Norman Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

Edward had four siblings, including Ethelfleda, Queen of the Mercians and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, and may have had illegitimate children too.

Edward married (although the exact status of the union is uncertain) a young woman of low birth called Ecgwynn around 893, and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric, King of Dublin and York in 926. Nothing is known about Ecgwynn other than her name, which was not even recorded until after the Conquest.

When he became king in 899, Edward set Ecgwynn aside and married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire. Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor; Edgiva aka Edgifu, whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933 was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Edgiva, aka Eadgifu, the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Edred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married Louis l'Aveugle.

Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Aelffaed, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

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References

1. ^ a b N. J. Higham, David Hill, Edward the Elder, 899-924, p. 57.

2. ^ Higham & Hill, p. 67

3. ^ Higham & Hill, p. 206.

4. ^ Higham & Hill, pp. 73, 206.

5. ^ ODNB; Yorke.

6. ^ ODNB; Yorke; Asser, c. 75.

7. ^ ODNB; PASE; S 348; Yorke.

8. ^ ODNB; S 356; Yorke.

9. ^ Asser, c. 13; S 340; Yorke. Check Stafford, "King's wife".

10. ^ "England: Anglo-Saxon Consecrations: 871-1066". http://www.archontology.org/nations/england/anglosaxon/01_coron.php#edward_elder.

11. ^ "Edward the Elder: Reconquest of the Southern Danelaw". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder#4.

12. ^ "Edward the Elder: "Father and Lord" of the North". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder#5.

13. ^ "English Monarchs: Edward the Elder". http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxon_7.htm.

14. ^ "Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder.

15. ^ Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray. pp. pp. 98,99.

16. ^ a b Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray. pp. p. 99.

17. ^ Chart of Kings & Queens Of Great Britain (see References)

Sources

* anglo-saxons.net

* David Nash Ford's Early British Kingdoms

* "England: Anglo-Saxon Consecrations: 871-1066". http://www.archontology.org/nations/england/anglosaxon/01_coron.php#edward_elder.

* "English Monarchs: Edward the Elder". http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxon_7.htm.

* Higham, N.J. Edward the Elder, 899-924, 2001 ISBN 0-415-21497-1

* Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray. pp. pp. 98,99.

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Eadweard I, King of Wessex (1)

M, #102434, b. circa 871, d. 17 July 924

Last Edited=6 Apr 2007

Eadweard I, King of Wessex was born circa 871 at Wantage, Dorset, England. (3) He was the son of Ælfræd, King of Wessex and Eahlwið, Princess of Mercia. He married, firstly, Ecgwyn (?). (3) He married, secondly, Ælflæd (?), daughter of Ethelhelm, Ealdorman and Elswitha (?), circa 901. (4) He married, thirdly, Eadgifu (?), daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent, circa 920. (5)

He died on 17 July 924 at Farndon-on-Dee, England. (6)

He was also reported to have died on 7 July 924 at Farndon, Cheshire, England. He was buried at Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. (6)

Eadweard I, King of Wessex also went by the nick-name of Edward 'the Elder' (?). (1) He succeeded to the title of King Eadweard I of Wessex on 26 October 899. (3) He succeeded to the title of King Eadweard I of Mercia on 26 October 899. (3) He was crowned King of Wessex and Mercia on 31 May 900 at Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England. (3)

Edward together with his sister Ethelfleda of Mercia, fought stoutly against the Danes. Ethelfleda built many forts notably at Chester, Hereford, Bridgenorth, Shrewsbury, Warwick, Gloucester and Tamworth. Known as The Lady of the Mercians, she died in 918 and Mercia was then united with Wessex. In 914, Edward secured the release of the Bishop of Llandaff (Cardiff) who had been captured by the Norsemen and following this, the princes of both North and South Wales pledged their perpetual allegiance to him. Edward doubled the size of the kingdom during his reign. It is now generally acknowledged that Edward died on the 7th July 924 but some historians give the date as 925.

Children of Eadweard I, King of Wessex and Ecgwyn (?)

-1. Alfred (?) (4)

-2. Saint Edith (?) d. c 927

-3. Æthelstan, King of England7 b. c 895, d. 27 Oct 939

Children of Eadweard I, King of Wessex and Ælflæd (?)

-1. Edwin (?)7 d. 933

-2. Eadflæd (?) (8)

-3. Æthelhilda (?) (8)

-4. Eadgyth (?)+7 d. 26 Jan 946

-5. Edgiva (?) (7)

-6. Eadhilda (?)7 d. 26 Jan 947

-7. Ælfweard, King of England4 d. 1 Aug 924

-8. Elfleda (?)5 d. c 963

-9. Ethelfleda (?) (5)

-10. Eadgifu (?)+7 b. 902, d. c 953

Children of Eadweard I, King of Wessex and Eadgifu (?)

-1. Saint Edburga (?)7 d. 15 Jun 960

-2. Eadgifu (?)

-3. Eadmund I, King of England+1 b. bt 920 - 922, d. 26 May 946

-4. Eadræd, King of England1 b. bt 923 - 925, d. 23 Nov 955

Forrás / Source:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p10244.htm#i102434

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Edward the Elder, King of England, 901-925,

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Elder

Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 870 – 17 July 924) was King of England (899 – 924). He was the son of Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd se Grēata) and Alfred's wife, Ealhswith, and became King upon his father's death in 899.

He was king at a time when the Kingdom of Wessex was becoming transformed into the Kingdom of England. The title he normally used was "King of the Anglo-Saxons"; most authorities do regard him as a king of England, although the territory he ruled over was significantly smaller than the present borders of England.

Contents [hide]

1 Ætheling

2 Succession and early reign

3 Achievements

4 Family

5 Genealogy

6 References

7 Sources

8 External links

[edit] Ætheling

Of the five children born to Alfred and Eahlswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's name was a new one among the West Saxon ruling family. His siblings were named for their father and other previous kings, but Edward was perhaps named for his maternal grandmother Eadburh, of Mercian origin and possibly a kinswoman of Mercian kings Coenwulf and Ceolwulf. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877. [1]

Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth. His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned Old English, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".[2]

The first appearance of Edward, called filius regis, the king's son in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son.[3] Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred, Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status.[4] As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Eahlswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.[5]

[edit] Succession and early reign

When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Aethelwold, the son of King Ethelred of Wessex, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Aethelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Aethelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [6]

In 901, Aethelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Aethelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[7]

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians retaliated by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the River Humber.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick.

[edit] Achievements

Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Ethelfleda (Æðelflǣd). Ethelfleda's daughter, Ælfwynn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[8] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[9]

He died leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Norman Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

[edit] Family

Edward had four siblings, including Ethelfleda, Queen of the Mercians and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, and may have had illegitimate children too.

Edward married (although the exact status of the union is uncertain) a young woman of low birth called Ecgwynn around 893, and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric, King of Dublin and York in 926. Nothing is known about Ecgwynn other than her name, which was not even recorded until after the Conquest. [10][11]

When he became king in 899, Edward set Ecgwynn aside and married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire. [12] Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor; Edgiva aka Edgifu, whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933[13] was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Edgiva, aka Eadgifu,[12] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Edred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married Louis l'Aveugle.

Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Aelffaed, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Elder

Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 874-7[1] – 17 July 924) was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex. He captured the eastern Midlands and East Anglia from the Danes in 917 and became ruler of Mercia in 918 upon the death of Æthelflæd, his sister.

All but two of his charters give his title as "king of the Anglo-Saxons" (Anglorum Saxonum rex).[2] He was the second king of the Anglo-Saxons as this title was created by Alfred.[2] Edward's coinage reads "EADVVEARD REX."[3] The chroniclers record that all England "accepted Edward as lord" in 920.[4] But the fact that York continued to produce its own coinage suggests that Edward's authority was not accepted in Northumbria.[5] Edward's eponym "the Elder" was first used in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold (tenth century) to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

Ætheling

Of the five children born to Alfred and Ealhswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877. [6]

Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth. His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned the English of the day, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".[7]

The first appearance of Edward in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son.[8] Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred, Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status.[9] As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Ealhswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.[10]

[edit] Succession and early reign

When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Æthelwold, the son of King Æthelred of Wessex, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Æthelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Æthelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [11]

In 901, Æthelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Æthelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[12]

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians retaliated by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the River Humber.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick. These burhs were built to the same specifications (within centimetres) as those within the territory that his father had controlled; it has been suggested on this basis that Edward actually built them all.[13]

[edit] Achievements

Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Æthelflæd. Ætheflæd's daughter, Ælfwynn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[14] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[15]

He died leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Norman Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon era monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

[edit] Family

Edward had four siblings, including Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, and may have had illegitimate children too.

Edward first married Ecgwynn around 893 and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric Cáech, King of Dublin and York in 926. Nothing is known about Ecgwynn other than her name, which was not even recorded until after the Conquest.[16][17]

When he became king in 899, Edward married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire.[18] Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor; Eadgifu, whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933[19] was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Eadgifu,[18] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Eadred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married "Louis, Prince of Aquitaine", whose identity is disputed.

Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Ælfflæd, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

[edit] Genealogy

For a more complete genealogy including ancestors and descendants, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wessex_family_tree#House_of_Wessex_family_tree

Reign 26 October 899 – 17 July 924

Coronation 8 June 900, Kingston upon Thames

Predecessor Alfred the Great

Successor Athelstan of England and/or Ælfweard of Wessex

Spouse Ecgwynn, Ælfflæd, and Eadgifu

Father Alfred the Great

Mother Ealhswith

Born c.874-77

Wantage, Wessex, England

Died 17 July 924

Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire England

Burial New Minster, Winchester, later translated to Hyde Abbey.

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Edward the Elder

King of the English

Reign 26 October 899 - 17 July 924

Coronation 8 June 900, Kingston upon Thames

Predecessor Alfred the Great and

Ealhswith

Successor Ælfweard of Wessex and

Athelstan of England

Spouse Ecgwynn, Ælfflæd, and Edgiva

Father Alfred the Great

Mother Ealhswith

Born c.870

Wessex, England

Died 17 July 924

Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire England

Burial New Minster, Winchester, later translated to Hyde Abbey

Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 870 – 17 July 924) was King of England (899 – 924). He was the son of Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd se Grēata) and Alfred's wife, Ealhswith, and became King upon his father's death in 899.

He was king at a time when the Kingdom of Wessex was becoming transformed into the Kingdom of England. The title he normally used was "King of the Anglo-Saxons"; most authorities do regard him as a king of England, although the territory he ruled over was significantly smaller than the present borders of England.

Ætheling

Of the five children born to Alfred and Eahlswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's name was a new one among the West Saxon ruling family. His siblings were named for their father and other previous kings, but Edward was perhaps named for his maternal grandmother Eadburh, of Mercian origin and possibly a kinswoman of Mercian kings Coenwulf and Ceolwulf. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877. [1]

Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth. His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned Old English, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".[2]

The first appearance of Edward, called filius regis, the king's son in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son.[3] Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred, Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status.[4] As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Eahlswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.[5]

Succession and early reign

When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Aethelwold, the son of King Ethelred of Wessex, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Aethelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Aethelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [6]

In 901, Aethelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Aethelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[7]

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians retaliated by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the River Humber.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick.

Achievements

Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Ethelfleda (Æðelflǣd). Ethelfleda's daughter, Ælfwynn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[8] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[9]

He died leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Norman Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

Family

Edward had four siblings, including Ethelfleda, Queen of the Mercians and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, and may have had illegitimate children too.

Edward married (although the exact status of the union is uncertain) a young woman of low birth called Ecgwynn around 893, and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric, King of Dublin and York in 926. Nothing is known about Ecgwynn other than her name, which was not even recorded until after the Conquest. [10][11]

When he became king in 899, Edward set Ecgwynn aside and married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire. [12] Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor; Edgiva aka Edgifu, whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933[13] was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Edgiva, aka Eadgifu,[12] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Edred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married Louis l'Aveugle.

Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Aelffaed, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

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He was king at a time when the Kingdom of Wessex was becoming transformed into the Kingdom of England. The title he normally used was "King of the Anglo-Saxons"; most authorities do regard him as a king of England,

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Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 874-7[1] – 17 July 924) was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex. He captured the eastern Midlands and East Anglia from the Danes in 917 and became ruler of Mercia in 918 upon the death of Æthelflæd, his sister.

All but two of his charters give his title as "king of the Anglo-Saxons" (Anglorum Saxonum rex).[2] He was the second king of the Anglo-Saxons as this title was created by Alfred.[2] Edward's coinage reads "EADVVEARD REX."[3] The chroniclers record that all England "accepted Edward as lord" in 920.[4] But the fact that York continued to produce its own coinage suggests that Edward's authority was not accepted in Northumbria.[5] Edward's eponym "the Elder" was first used in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold (tenth century) to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

Contents

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* 1 Ætheling

* 2 Succession and early reign

* 3 Achievements

* 4 Family

* 5 Genealogy

* 6 Ancestry

* 7 References

* 8 Sources

* 9 External links

[edit] Ætheling

Of the five children born to Alfred and Ealhswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877.[6]

Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth. His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned the English of the day, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".[7]

The first appearance of Edward in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son.[8] Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred, Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status.[9] As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Ealhswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.[10]

[edit] Succession and early reign

Silver brooch imitating a coin of Edward the Elder, c. 920, found in Rome, Italy. British Museum.

When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Æthelwold, the son of King Æthelred of Wessex, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Æthelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Æthelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [11]

In 901, Æthelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Æthelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[12]

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians retaliated by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the River Humber.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick. These burhs were built to the same specifications (within centimetres) as those within the territory that his father had controlled; it has been suggested on this basis that Edward actually built them all.[13]

[edit] Achievements

Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Æthelflæd. Ætheflæd's daughter, Ælfwynn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[14] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[15]

He died leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Norman Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon era monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

[edit] Family

Edward had four siblings, including Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, (or according to some sources, an extramarital relationship and two marriages).

Edward first married Ecgwynn around 893 and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric Cáech, King of Dublin and York in 926. Conflicting information about Ecgwynn is given by different sources, none of which pre-date the Conquest.[16][17]

When he became king in 899, Edward married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire.[18] Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor; Eadgifu, whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933[19] was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Eadgifu,[18] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Eadred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married "Louis, Prince of Aquitaine", whose identity is disputed.

Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Ælfflæd, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

[edit] Genealogy

For a more complete genealogy including ancestors and descendants, see House of Wessex family tree.

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Succession and early reign

Edward's succession to his father was not assured. When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Aethelwold, the son of King Aethelred I, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Aethelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Aethelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [1]

In 901, Aethelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Aethelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[2]

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians returned the favour by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the Humber River.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick.

[edit]Achievements

Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Ethelfleda (Æðelflǣd). Ethelfleda's daughter, Aelfwinn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[3] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[4]

He died leading an army against a Cambro-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and King Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

[edit]Family

Edward had four siblings, including Ethelfleda, Queen of the Mercians and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders .

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, and may have had illegitimate children too.

Edward married (although the exact status of the union is uncertain) a young woman of low birth called Ecgwynn around 893, and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric, King of Dublin and York in 926. Nothing is known about Ecgwynn other than her name, which was not even recorded until after the Conquest. [5][6]

When he became king in 899, Edward set Ecgwynn aside and married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire. [7] Their son was the future king, Ælfweard, and their daughter Eadgyth married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. The couples other children included five more daughters: Edgiva aka Edgifu, whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married Conrad King of Burgundy; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. According to the entry on Boleslaus II of Bohemia, the daughter Adiva (referred to in the entry for Eadgyth) was his wife. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933[8] was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Edgiva, aka Eadgifu,[7] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Edred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married Louis d'Aveugle, King of Arles.

Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Aelffaed, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

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Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 874-7[1] – 17 July 924) was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex. He captured the eastern Midlands and East Anglia from the Danes in 917 and became ruler of Mercia in 918 upon the death of Æthelflæd, his sister.

All but two of his charters give his title as "king of the Anglo-Saxons" (Anglorum Saxonum rex).[2] He was the second king of the Anglo-Saxons as this title was created by Alfred.[2] Edward's coinage reads "EADVVEARD REX."[3] The chroniclers record that all England "accepted Edward as lord" in 920.[4] But the fact that York continued to produce its own coinage suggests that Edward's authority was not accepted in Northumbria.[5] Edward's eponym "the Elder" was first used in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold (tenth century) to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

Contents [hide]

1 Ætheling

2 Succession and early reign

3 Achievements

4 Family

5 Genealogy

6 Ancestry

7 References

8 Sources

9 External links

[edit] Ætheling

Of the five children born to Alfred and Ealhswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877.[6]

Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth. His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned the English of the day, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".[7]

The first appearance of Edward in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son.[8] Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred, Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status.[9] As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Ealhswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.[10]

[edit] Succession and early reign

Silver brooch imitating a coin of Edward the Elder, c. 920, found in Rome, Italy. British Museum.When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Æthelwold, the son of King Æthelred of Wessex, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Æthelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Æthelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [11]

In 901, Æthelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year, he attacked Cricklade and Braydon. Edward arrived with an army, and after several marches, the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Æthelwold and King Eohric of the East Anglian Danes were killed in the battle.

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[12]

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians retaliated by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the River Humber.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick. These burhs were built to the same specifications (within centimetres) as those within the territory that his father had controlled; it has been suggested on this basis that Edward actually built them all.[13]

[edit] Achievements

Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Æthelflæd. Ætheflæd's daughter, Ælfwynn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[14] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[15]

He died leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Norman Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon era monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

[edit] Family

Edward had four siblings, including Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, (or according to some sources, an extramarital relationship and two marriages).

Edward first married Ecgwynn around 893 and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric Cáech, King of Dublin and York in 926. Conflicting information about Ecgwynn is given by different sources, none of which pre-date the Conquest.[16][17]

When he became king in 899, Edward married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire.[18] Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor; Eadgifu, whose first marriage was to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933[19] was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Eadgifu,[18] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Eadred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married "Louis, Prince of Aquitaine", whose identity is disputed.

Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Ælfflæd, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

[edit] Genealogy

For a more complete genealogy including ancestors and descendants, see House of Wessex family tree.

Diagram based on the information found on Wikipedia[edit] Ancestry

Ancestors of Edward the Elder[hide]

16. Ealhmund of Kent

8. Egbert of Wessex

4. Æthelwulf of Wessex

9. Redburga

2. Alfred the Great

10. Oslac

5. Osburga

1. Edward the Elder

6. Æthelred Mucil

3. Ealhswith

[edit] References

1.^ Barbara Yorke in Higham & Hill Eds, pp. 25-26

2.^ a b Simon Keynes in Higham & Hill Eds, p. 57.

3.^ Higham & Hill, p. 67

4.^ Higham & Hill, p. 206.

5.^ Higham & Hill, pp. 73, 206.

6.^ ODNB; Yorke.

7.^ ODNB; Yorke; Asser, c. 75.

8.^ ODNB; PASE; S 348; Yorke.

9.^ ODNB; S 356; Yorke.

10.^ Asser, c. 13; S 340; Yorke. Check Stafford, "King's wife".

11.^ "England: Anglo-Saxon Consecrations: 871-1066". http://www.archontology.org/nations/england/anglosaxon/01_coron.php#edward_elder.

12.^ "Edward the Elder: Reconquest of the Southern Danelaw". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder#4.

13.^ Was Alfred really that great? David Keys. BBC History magazine, January 2009 volume 10 no. 1 pages 10-11

14.^ "Edward the Elder: "Father and Lord" of the North". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder#5.

15.^ "English Monarchs: Edward the Elder". http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxon_7.htm.

16.^ "Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder.

17.^ Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray. pp. 98-99.

18.^ a b Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray. pp. 99.

19.^ Chart of Kings & Queens Of Great Britain (see References)

[edit] Sources

anglo-saxons.net

"England: Anglo-Saxon Consecrations: 871-1066". http://www.archontology.org/nations/england/anglosaxon/01_coron.php#edward_elder.

"English Monarchs: Edward the Elder". http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxon_7.htm.

Higham, N.J. & Hill, D.H., Eds, Edward the Elder, 899–924, Routledge, 2001 ISBN 0-415-21497-1

Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray.

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NAME Edward the Elder

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DATE OF BIRTH 871

PLACE OF BIRTH Wessex, England

DATE OF DEATH 17 July 924

PLACE OF DEATH Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire England

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Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 870 – 17 July 924) was King of England (899 – 924). He was the son of Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd se Grēata) and Alfred's wife, Ealhswith, and became King upon his father's death in 899.

He was king at a time when the Kingdom of Wessex was becoming transformed into the Kingdom of England. The title he normally used was "King of the Anglo-Saxons"; most authorities do regard him as a king of England, although the territory he ruled over was significantly smaller than the present borders of England.

Of the five children born to Alfred and Eahlswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's name was a new one among the West Saxon ruling family. His siblings were named for their father and other previous kings, but Edward was perhaps named for his maternal grandmother Eadburh, of Mercian origin and possibly a kinswoman of Mercian kings Coenwulf and Ceolwulf. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877.

Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth. His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned Old English, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".

The first appearance of Edward, called filius regis, the king's son in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son. Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred, Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status. As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Eahlswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.

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Became King in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. All but two of his charters give his title as "king of the Anglo-Saxons" (Anglorum Saxonum red). He was the second king of the Anglo-Saxons as this title was created by Alfred.

Edward's cousin attempted to claim his throne and began Aethelwold's Revolt and the two sides met at the Battle of Holme. Aethelwold expired in battle.

Edward went on to conquer English lands occupied by the Danes. He died in battle leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion. His last resting place was moved after the Norman Conquest and is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

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From http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps05/ps05_318.htm

Edward succeeded his father in October 899; often repulsed the Danish Vikings; received the submission of Welsh and Scottish kings; was buried in the "New Minster" at Winchester. He unified most of England south of the Humber River. {See "Anglo-Saxon England," 3rd Ed., Frank M. Stenton, 1971.}

He acceded 31 MAY 900, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey.

The reconquest of the area settled by the Vikings, the Danelaw, was

begun by Alfred's son and Heir. In this he was ably assissted by his

sister, aethelflaed, the "Lady of the Mercians".

The claim to be the first king of all England remains a matter of

some dispute. "All the people of Mercia who had been under allegiance to

Aethelflaed turned in submission to him. The kings of Wales, Hywel Clydog

and Idwal and all the people of Wales, gave him their allegiance... and

then the king of the Scots and the whole Scottish nation accepted him as

'Father and Lord"; so also did... all the inhabitants of Northumbria,

both English and Danish, Norwegians and all others; together with the

king of the Strathcylde Welsh and all his subjects."

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Edward the Elder was the second son of Alfred the Great and was born about 871. His elder brother, Edmund, apparently died in infancy, though one tradition asserts he lived long enough to be crowned as heir apparent. In any case, the choice of his first two sons' names demonstrate Alfred's hopes for them. Both names mean 11 protector" (mund) or "guardian" (ward) of "riches", showing that Alfred hoped his sons would guard the prosperity of the nation for the future. Edward grew up firmly believing this. He was a soldier from childhood, not a scholar like his father and grandfather, and he knew, once his brother died, that it was in his hands that the future of the nation rested. He was a child throughout the wars that his father waged with the Danes, and they would have left a vivid impression on his mind. When the Danish problems arose again in 892 and 893 he commanded part of the army that captured the raiders. The Saxons were therefore already accustomed to him as their leader. However, after his father's death his succession did not go unchallenged. His nephew, Athelwold, the son of Athelred, was dissatisfied with the terms of Alfred's will and felt dispossessed. He seized Wimborne manor and, though he was soon chased out of Wessex, he was accepted by the Danes and Angles of York as their leader and subsequently led a revolt amongst the Danes of East Anglia. He remained a thorn in Edward's side until he was defeated and killed in 902, after which Edward was able to seal a peace treaty with the Danes of the east. However the Danes of the north still defied Edward's sovereignty, ruling jorvik as a separate Danish kingdom. Throughout 909 the Danes tested Edward's resolve with a number of border raids and skirmishes, and eventually Edward moved against them, raising a vast army. Edward harried Northumbria with little result. The following year he was tricked by the Danish fleet moving down the east coast, while the main Danish army moved across Northumbria and down into Mercia. Edward realised his error and chased the Danes, catching them at Tettenhall in August 910, where he inflicted upon them one of their most crushing defeats, resulting in the deaths of the two Danish kings Halfdan and Eowils. It was the end of the Danish hold on Jorvik, although soon after the Norse under Ragnall moved in.

The Norse had been expelled from Dublin in 902 and were now landless. They first caused a nuisance in Wales and Scotland, but by 9 1 0 had become bold enough to enter Northumbria, and no sooner had Edward defeated one foe than another arrived. Rather than take them on instantly, Edward decided to work on one plan at a time. Since 905 Edward had been refortifying England. He rebuilt Chester and, along with his sister, Athelfled of Mercia, established a chain of fortified towns along the border with the Danelaw, including Runcorn, Tamworth, Stafford, Warwick, down to Hertford and over to Witham in Essex. Even before these forts were finished Edward was able to use them as a base to defeat a major Danish army which moved across England into Wales in 914, but no matter where the army tried to inflict major destruction, Edward was there, and the army eventually moved out of Britain at the end of the year' Most of the forts were completed by 915, and Edward progressively advanced into Danish territory. The Danes responded and from 916 on a series of skirmishes occurred across middle England. In almost all cases the English were victorious, with major successes at Leicester, Nottingham and Bedford. Early on the Danish king, Guthrum II ,was killed, and thereafter there was no coordinated strategy from the Danes. Edward was able to pick off small bands of men one at a time. Eventually the Danes submitted. The year 920 saw the Danes of East Anglia and the Five Boroughs submitting to him.

In 918, during the war with the Danes, Athelfloed had died, and though her daughter Elfwynn technically succeeded, Edward could not consider a young girl in charge during such a difficult period. Thus in 919 he assumed direct control over Mercia. With similar authority over the Danes of the east midlands, Edward now ruled over half of England. The Welsh princes, Idwal Foel, Clydog Ap Cadell and Hywel Dda, submitted to him, recognizing Edward as their overlord, for all that they remained sovereign princes. Even in the north, Edward's authority was recognized, though this was rather more tenuous. Ragnall of York had tried to goad the Danes into further revolt but by 920 they recognized that Edward was the victor. Ragnall realised his subterfuge would not succeed and recognized Edward as overlord; but his successor, Sitric, did not. This must have alarmed Constantine II of Scotland and Donald Mac Aed of Strathclyde, both of whom had suffered from the Norse and now felt that they needed Edward's protection by acknowledging his supremacy. Thus, by the year 922, Edward was overlord of all of Britain except for the Norse settlements of York, Orkney and the Western Isles. It was a remarkable achievement for a man whose boyhood had been spent in hiding from the Danes. Edward was a fitting son of Alfred and it was important that a strong king followed him to maintain and build upon his successes. Athelstan was such a king.

Edward was married at least three times, though the legitimacy of the first is in question. Of his many children, most were daughters, but of the sons who survived him, all of them - Edwin, Elfweard, Athelstan, Edmund and Eadred – succeeded him in some form within the kingdom.

References: [AR7],[RFC],[Weis1],[WallopFH],[Moncreiffe], [Paget1]

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Edward was the eldest son of King Alfred the Great and Queen Elswith. At the age of twenty-two, he appears to have married a noblewoman named Egwina, though the wedding may have been uncanonical and was not recognized in some quarters. They had three or four children. At the same time, Edward was already active in his father's campaigns against the Vikings and towards the end of Alfred's reign, he was probably appointed Sub-King of Kent.

Edward's path to the throne was not altogether smooth. Upon his father's death in AD 899, a rebellion broke out in favour of Edward's cousin, Aethelwold, the son of the late King Aethelred I. Failing to secure Wessex, this prince went north and found support from the people of the Norse Kingdom of York, where he was proclaimed King. With the help of the East Anglians, he subsequently attacked both Mercia and Wessex but was killed at the Battle of Holme (Essex) in AD 902. Around the same time, the King married for a second time to Aelflaed the daughter Ealdorman Aethelhelm of Wiltshire. They had eight children together. Four years later, Edward made peace with the Northerners at Tiddingford in Bedfordshire; but by AD 909, he took on a more aggressive stance by raiding the North-West. The following year, a joint Mercian and West Saxon army marched north and defeated the Northern Vikings so completely at Tettenhall (Staffordshire) that they subsequently felt it best to remain within their borders. King Edward was then able to concentrate his attentions on the Danes of East Anglia and the Five Boroughs (of the East Midlands). With the help of his sister, the formidable Lady Aethelflaed of Mercia, the next eight years saw a prolonged campaign aimed at pushing the boundaries of Wessex and Mercia northwards. This was largely achieved through the extension of King Alfred's old policy of building defensive burghs across the country, as recorded in the 'Burghal Hidage'. They were both places of refuge in time of attack and garrisoned strongholds from which assaults could be launched.

After Aethelflaed's death in AD 918, Edward was able to take advantage of his niece Aelfwinn's minority and brought Mercia under direct Wessex control. Two years later, the Kings of the north - including Sigtrygg Caech (the Squinty) of Norse York, Constantine II of the Scots and Donald mac Aed of Strathclyde - met Edward at Bakewell and also finally recognised his overlordship. At the time of his third marriage, to Edith daughter of Ealdorman Sigehelm of Kent, therefore King Edward was in a strong position. Holding his territories together was not easy, however, and revolts against Edward's rule continued. In AD 924, he was forced to lead an army north once more to put down a Cambro-Mercian rebellion in Cheshire. He died at Farndon-upon-Dee in that county on 17th July.

Edward's body was taken south to the reduced diocese of Winchester for burial - he had sub-divided the West Saxon sees in AD 909, creating new Bishops of Ramsbury & Sonning, Wells and Crediton. The King was interred at the family mausoleum, his own foundation (AD 901) of New Minster in the centre Winchester, and was succeeded by his sons, Aelfweard and Aethelstan.

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Edward the Elder

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Edward the Elder

King of the Anglo-Saxons

Reign 26 October 899 – 17 July 924

Coronation 8 June 900, Kingston upon Thames

Predecessor Alfred the Great

Successor Athelstan of England and/or Ælfweard of Wessex

Spouse Ecgwynn, Ælfflæd, and Eadgifu

Father Alfred the Great

Mother Ealhswith

Born c.874-77

Wantage, Wessex, England

Died 17 July 924

Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire England

Burial New Minster, Winchester, later translated to Hyde Abbey

Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 874-7[1] – 17 July 924) was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex. He captured the eastern Midlands and East Anglia from the Danes in 917 and became ruler of Mercia in 918 upon the death of Æthelflæd, his sister.

All but two of his charters give his title as "king of the Anglo-Saxons" (Anglorum Saxonum rex).[2] He was the second king of the Anglo-Saxons as this title was created by Alfred.[2] Edward's coinage reads "EADVVEARD REX."[3] The chroniclers record that all England "accepted Edward as lord" in 920.[4] But the fact that York continued to produce its own coinage suggests that Edward's authority was not accepted in Northumbria.[5] Edward's eponym "the Elder" was first used in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold (tenth century) to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

Contents

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* 1 Ætheling

* 2 Succession and early reign

* 3 Achievements

* 4 Family

* 5 Genealogy

* 6 Ancestry

* 7 References

* 8 Sources

* 9 External links

[edit] Ætheling

Of the five children born to Alfred and Ealhswith who survived infancy, Edward was the second-born and the elder son. Edward's birth cannot be certainly dated. His parents married in 868 and his eldest sibling Æthelflæd was born soon afterwards as she was herself married in 883. Edward was probably born rather later, in the 870s, and probably between 874 and 877.[6]

Asser's Life of King Alfred reports that Edward was educated at court together with his youngest sister Ælfthryth. His second sister, Æthelgifu, was intended for a life in religion from an early age, perhaps due to ill health, and was later abbess of Shaftesbury. The youngest sibling, Æthelweard, was educated at a court school where he learned Latin, which suggests that he too was intended for a religious life. Edward and Ælfthryth, however, while they learned the English of the day, received a courtly education, and Asser refers to their taking part in the "pursuits of this present life which are appropriate to the nobility".[7]

The first appearance of Edward in the sources is in 892, in a charter granting land at North Newnton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, to ealdorman Æthelhelm, where he is called filius regis, the king's son.[8] Although he was the reigning king's elder son, Edward was not certain to succeed his father. Until the 890s, the obvious heirs to the throne were Edward's cousins Æthelwold and Æthelhelm, sons of Æthelred, Alfred's older brother and predecessor as king. Æthelwold and Æthelhelm were around ten years older than Edward. Æthelhelm disappears from view in the 890s, seemingly dead, but a charter probably from that decade shows Æthelwold witnessing before Edward, and the order of witnesses is generally believed to relate to their status.[9] As well as his greater age and experience, Æthelwold may have had another advantage over Edward where the succession was concerned. While Alfred's wife Ealhswith is never described as queen and was never crowned, Æthelwold and Æthelhelm's mother Wulfthryth was called queen.[10]

[edit] Succession and early reign

Silver brooch imitating a coin of Edward the Elder, c. 920, found in Rome, Italy. British Museum.

When Alfred died, Edward's cousin Æthelwold, the son of King Æthelred of Wessex, rose up to claim the throne and began Æthelwold's Revolt. He seized Wimborne, in Dorset, where his father was buried, and Christchurch (then in Hampshire, now in Dorset). Edward marched to Badbury and offered battle, but Æthelwold refused to leave Wimborne. Just when it looked as if Edward was going to attack Wimborne, Æthelwold left in the night, and joined the Danes in Northumbria, where he was announced as King. In the meantime, Edward is alleged to have been crowned at Kingston upon Thames on 8 June 900 [11]

In 901, Æthelwold came with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes in East Anglia to rise up. In the following year he attacked English Mercia and northern Wessex. Edward retaliated by ravaging East Anglia, but when he retreated south the men of Kent disobeyed the order to retire, and were intercepted by the Danish army. The two sides met at the Battle of the Holme on 13 December 902. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Danes "kept the place of slaughter", but they suffered heavy losses, including Æthelwold and a King Eohric, possibly of the East Anglian Danes.[12]

Relations with the North proved problematic for Edward for several more years. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity". There is also a mention of the regaining of Chester in 907, which may be an indication that the city was taken in battle.[13]

In 909, Edward sent an army to harass Northumbria. In the following year, the Northumbrians retaliated by attacking Mercia, but they were met by the combined Mercian and West Saxon army at the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Northumbrian Danes were destroyed. From that point, they never raided south of the River Humber.

Edward then began the construction of a number of fortresses (burhs), at Hertford, Witham and Bridgnorth. He is also said to have built a fortress at Scergeat, but that location has not been identified. This series of fortresses kept the Danes at bay. Other forts were built at Tamworth, Stafford, Eddisbury and Warwick. These burhs were built to the same specifications (within centimetres) as those within the territory that his father had controlled; it has been suggested on this basis that Edward actually built them all.[14]

[edit] Achievements

Edward extended the control of Wessex over the whole of Mercia, East Anglia and Essex, conquering lands occupied by the Danes and bringing the residual autonomy of Mercia to an end in 918, after the death of his sister, Æthelflæd. Ætheflæd's daughter, Ælfwynn, was named as her successor, but Edward deposed her, bringing Mercia under his direct control. He had already annexed the cities of London and Oxford and the surrounding lands of Oxfordshire and Middlesex in 911. By 918, all of the Danes south of the Humber had submitted to him. By the end of his reign, the Norse, the Scots and the Welsh had acknowledged him as "father and lord".[15] This recognition of Edward's overlordship in Scotland led to his successors' claims of suzerainty over that Kingdom.

Edward reorganized the Church in Wessex, creating new bishoprics at Ramsbury and Sonning, Wells and Crediton. Despite this, there is little indication that Edward was particularly religious. In fact, the Pope delivered a reprimand to him to pay more attention to his religious responsibilities.[16]

He died leading an army against a Welsh-Mercian rebellion, on 17 July 924 at Farndon-Upon-Dee and was buried in the New Minster in Winchester, Hampshire, which he himself had established in 901. After the Norman Conquest, the minster was replaced by Hyde Abbey to the north of the city and Edward's body was transferred there. His last resting place is currently marked by a cross-inscribed stone slab within the outline of the old abbey marked out in a public park.

The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon era monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century. Edward's eponym the Elder was first used in the 10th century, in Wulfstan's Life of St Æthelwold, to distinguish him from the later King Edward the Martyr.

[edit] Family

Edward had four siblings, including Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.

King Edward had about fourteen children from three marriages, (or according to some sources, an extramarital relationship and two marriages).

Edward first married Ecgwynn around 893 and they became the parents of the future King Athelstan and a daughter who married Sihtric Cáech, King of Dublin and York in 926. Conflicting information about Ecgwynn is given by different sources, none of which pre-date the Conquest.[17][18]

When he became king in 899, Edward married Ælfflæd, a daughter of Æthelhelm, the ealdorman of Wiltshire.[19] Their son Ælfweard may have briefly succeeded his father, but died just over two weeks later and the two were buried together. Edward and Ælfflæd had six daughters: Eadgyth who married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor; Eadgifu, married to Charles the Simple; Eadhild, who married Hugh the Great, Duke of Paris; Ælfgifu who married "a prince near the Alps", sometimes identified with Conrad of Burgundy or Boleslaus II of Bohemia; and two nuns Eadflæd and Eadhild. A son, Edwin Ætheling who drowned in 933[20] was possibly Ælfflæd's child, but that is not clear.

Edward married for a third time, about 919, to Eadgifu,[19] the daughter of Sigehelm, the ealdorman of Kent. They had two sons who survived infancy, Edmund and Eadred, and two daughters, one of whom was Saint Edburga of Winchester the other daughter, Eadgifu, married "Louis, Prince of Aquitaine", whose identity is disputed.

Eadgifu outlived her husband and her sons, and was alive during the reign of her grandson, King Edgar. William of Malmsbury's history De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesiae claims that Edward's second wife, Ælfflæd, was also alive after Edward's death, but this is the only known source for that claim.

References

1. ^ Barbara Yorke in Higham & Hill Eds, pp. 25-26

2. ^ a b Simon Keynes in Higham & Hill Eds, p. 57.

3. ^ Higham & Hill, p. 67

4. ^ Higham & Hill, p. 206.

5. ^ Higham & Hill, pp. 73, 206.

6. ^ ODNB; Yorke.

7. ^ ODNB; Yorke; Asser, c. 75.

8. ^ ODNB; PASE; S 348; Yorke.

9. ^ ODNB; S 356; Yorke.

10. ^ Asser, c. 13; S 340; Yorke. Check Stafford, "King's wife".

11. ^ "England: Anglo-Saxon Consecrations: 871-1066". http://www.archontology.org/nations/england/anglosaxon/01_coron.php#edward_elder.

12. ^ Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford University Press, 1971, pp. 321-2; Bernard Cornwell, Æthelwold of Wessex: King of the Pagans

13. ^ "Edward the Elder: Reconquest of the Southern Danelaw". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder#4.

14. ^ Was Alfred really that great? David Keys. BBC History magazine, January 2009 volume 10 no. 1 pages 10-11

15. ^ "Edward the Elder: "Father and Lord" of the North". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder#5.

16. ^ "English Monarchs: Edward the Elder". http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxon_7.htm.

17. ^ "Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons". http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EdwardtheElder.

18. ^ Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray. pp. 98-99.

19. ^ a b Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray. pp. 99.

20. ^ Chart of Kings & Queens Of Great Britain (see References)

[edit] Sources

* anglo-saxons.net

* "England: Anglo-Saxon Consecrations: 871-1066". http://www.archontology.org/nations/england/anglosaxon/01_coron.php#edward_elder.

* "English Monarchs: Edward the Elder". http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxon_7.htm.

* Higham, N.J. & Hill, D.H., Eds, Edward the Elder, 899–924, Routledge, 2001 ISBN 0-415-21497-1

* Lappenberg, Johann; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray.

[edit] External links

* The Laws of King Edward the Elder

* Edward the Elder Coinage Regulations

* Find A Grave: Edward the Elder

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Eduard der Ältere (* um 871; † 17. Juli 924) war König von Wessex von 899 bis 924.

Leben [Bearbeiten]

Er war der zweitälteste Sohn und Nachfolger seines Vaters Alfred des Großen, da sein älterer Bruder Edmund vor 899 gestorben war.

Unmittelbar nach seinem Regierungsantritt (899) wurde er von seinem Vetter Æthelwold bedroht, der seinerseits den Thron von Wessex beanspruchte und von den Dänen im Norden unterstützt wurde. Im Jahre 904 besiegte Eduard diesen Feind in einer Schlacht endgültig.

Über die Regierungszeit Eduards ist nicht viel bekannt, weil zu wenig Quellen überliefert sind. So fehlen beispielsweise alle königlichen Urkunden der Jahre 909 bis 921. Zwischen 907 und 920 organisierten Eduard und seine Schwester Æthelflæd den Kampf gegen die Dänen im Norden Englands. 910 brachte er den Dänen in der Schlacht bei Tettenhall eine schwere Niederlage bei, konnte mit dem Ausbau seines Herrschaftsgebietes beginnen und schließlich die angelsächsischen Königtümer im Süden Humbriens der dänischen Herrschaft entreißen. Durch den Bau von Burgen drängte er die Dänen bis 918 hinter den Fluss Humber zurück.

Zwar kontrollierte Eduard bis 920 Wessex, Mercia und auch den Norden bis zum Humber, doch König von ganz England, wie es sein Vater war, wurde Eduard niemals offiziell.

Familie [Bearbeiten]

In erster Ehe war er mit Egwina († 901/2), der Tochter eines Adeligen aus Wessex verheiratet. Mit ihr hatte er folgende Kinder:

* Æthelstan (König von England)

* Alfred († sehr jung)

* St. Edith (* um 900; † nach 927 in Tamworth) ∞ 30. Januar 925/926, Sihtric Caoch, König von Northumbria († 927); seit 927 Äbtissin von Tamworth.

In zweiter Ehe heiratete er 901/902 Elfleda († 920), die Tochter des Grafen Ethelhelm. Mit ihr hatte er folgende Kinder:

* Edwin († 933), Unterkönig von Kent

* Elfweard († 1. August 924 in Oxford ), König von England (17. Juli - 1. August 924)

* Edfleda, Nonne in Winchester

* Edgiva (Eadgifu, Ogive; * um 905; † 953) ∞ 1) 918/919, König Karl III. von Westfranken (* 879; † 929); ∞ 2) 951, Heribert Graf von Meaux und Troyes (* um 910; † 980/984).

* Edhilda (* etwa 907/910´; † 26. Januar 937) ∞ 926/927, Hugo der Große, Herzog von Franzien und Graf von Paris (* um 895; † 956).

* Editha (* um 910/913; † 946/947) ∞ 930, Otto I., König des Ostfrankenreichs (* 912; † 973)

* Elgiva († 1005) ∞ Herzog Boleslav II. von Böhmen († 999)

* Ethelfleda, Äbtissin von Romsey Abbey

* Ethelhilda, Nonne in Romsey Abbey

In dritter Ehe heiratete er um 920 Edgiva (* um 905; † 25. August 968), die Tochter des Grafen Sigehelm von Kent. Mit ihr hatte er folgende Kinder:

* Edmund I. (König von England)

* Eadred (König von England)

* St. Edburga (* um 922; † 15. Juni 960), Nonne in Nunnaminster

* Edgiva (* um 923) ∞ entweder Ludwig III., König von Provence (* etwa 880; † 5. Juni 928) oder Ebehard, Graf auf dem Nordgau († etwa 960)

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1 NAME the Elder //
2 GIVN the Elder
2 SURN
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1 NAME Edward the /Elder/, King of England 1 NAME Edward the Elder /England/ 2 SOUR S033320 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001 1 BIRT 2 DATE 875 2 PLAC ,Wessex, England 2 SOUR S033320 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001 1 DEAT 2 DATE 9 JUL 924 2 PLAC ,Farndon, Berkshire, England 2 SOUR S033320 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001

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Sources: RC 233, 261, 321, 359, 376; Coe; A. Roots 1-16, 16, 45; AF; Warrior Kings; Shorter History of England; Through the Ages; K and Q of Britain; Pfafman; Kraentzler 1470, 1475, 1631; Kirby; Young; Magna Charta Sureties 161-2. Edward was a Bretwala (King of Kings). First King of all England. Ruled from 899-924. K&Q says from 899-925. Several daughters became nuns.
K: Edward I, "The Pious." Roots: Edward the Elder, Saxon King of England, married (2) Alfflaed, (3) Eadgifu. Sureties: Edward I, the Elder, King of England 901-924. Born 875 and died 924.
Kirby: Eadweard. Young: Edward the Elder, died 924, King of England and overlord of the Welsh princes. Warrior Kings: "Edward, eldest son, was a warrior rather than a scholar, though in this capacity he probably took a good deal of weight from his father's shoulders. The relationship between father and son seems to have been amicable."

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Edward I van Engeland, (zie dezelfde persoon hierboven in generatie 33) ook bekend als "the Elder", geb. ca. 0869, ovl. 17.07.0925, begraven in Winchester, New Minster, ref. nr. 25.03.2004 ES II-78, K

King of England

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King of England

BIOGRAPHY: King of the West Saxons. He succeeded his father Alfred the Great in 899. He reconquered southeast England and the Midlands from the Danes, uniting Wessex and Mercia with the help of his sister Aethelflaed. By the time of his death his kingdom was the most powerful in the British Isles. He was succeeded by his son Athelstan.

Edward extended the system of burghal defence begun by Alfred, building new burhs, for example at Hertford and Buckingham, and twin burhs at Bedford and Stamford.

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King of England 901-924. Born 875 and died 924. Married (3) 919,Eadgifu; who died 961; daughter of Sigehelm, Earl of Kent.

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The Elder
From Genealogical Library book "House of Adam".

Stuart Roderick, W.
Royalty for Commoners, 3rd Edit. Published, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. Baltomore, MD. 1998,
ISBN-0-8063-1561-X Text 324-40

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Byname Edward The Elder Anglo-Saxon king in England, the son of Alfredthe 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 Danishinvaders.
Edward ascended the throne upon his father's death in October 899, andin a battle in 902 his forces killed a rival claimant, Aethelwald, whohad allied with the Danes. After defeating the
Northumbrian Danes at Tettenhall, he set out in August 912 to subdue theDanes of the eastern Midlands and East Anglia. From 910 to 916 heconstructed a series of fortified enclosures around his Kingdom of Wessex.
At the same time, his sister, the Mercian ruler Aethelflaed,constructed a complementary series of fortresses in the northwestMidlands. In 917 Edward and Aethelflaed launched a massive offensive,quickly overwhelming the entire Danish army of East Anglia. UponAethelflaed's death in June 918, Edward assumed control of Mercia, and bythe end of the year the last Danish armies in the Midlands had submitted.By that time Edward's kingdom included all the land south of the Humber
estuary; in 920 he pacified Northumbria. Complete political unificationof England was achieved during the reign of his son and successor,Athelstan (reigned 924/939).

To cite this page: "Edward" Encyclopædia Britannica
<http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=32570&tocid=0&query=edward%20the%20elder>

Edward the Elder, King of England

Born: 869
Acceded: 31 MAY 900, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
Died: 17 JUL 924, Farndon-on-Dee
Interred: Winchester Cathedral,Winchester,England
Notes:
Reigned 899-924.
He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia
(918) and Northumbria (920).

Father: , Alfred the Great, King West Saxons, b. 849

Mother: , Ealhswith of the Gaini

Married to , Ecgwyn

Child 1: , AEthelstan, King of England, b. 894
Child 2: , Alfred
Child 3: , Edith (St)

Married to , AElflaeda

Child 4: , AElfweard, King of England
Child 5: , Edgifu, b. 902
Child 6: , Edflaed, A nun at Wilton
Child 7: , Edwin, Sub King of Kent?
Child 8: , AElflaeda, A nun at Winchester
Child 9: , AEthelflaeda, Abbess of Romsey
Child 10: , Edhilda
Child 11: , Eadgyth (Edith)
Child 12: , AEthelhild, a recluse
Child 13: , AElfgifu

Married ABT 905 to , Eadgifu (Edgiva)

Child 14: , Edgifu
Child 15: , Edburga (St.), nun at Nunnaminster
Child 16: , Edmund I the Elder, King of England, b. 921
Child 17: , Eadred, King of England, b. CIR 924
Child 18: , Gregory of Einsiedlen, Abbot of Einsiedlen
Edward the Elder, King of England from 899 to his death in 924
Born in 869
Died on July 17, 924 at Farndon-on-Dee and interred at WinchesterCathedral, England
Edward built upon the successes of his father Alfred and set aboutcreating a new Kingdom of England. He defeated the Danes in 918, takingEast Anglia, and also conquered Mercia in 918 and Northumbria in 920.

Edward married first to Ecgwyn (died circa 901) and they had thefollowing children:

Æthelstan, King of England 924 - 939; born in 894 and died on October 27,939
Alfred who died young.
St. Edith who married Sihtric Caoch (Sigtryggr Gale), King of Dublin &York. On widowhood became a nun at Polesworth Abbey and transferred toTamworth Abbey, Glocestershire where she was elected Abbess. She wascanonised and her feast day is July 15th.
Edward married second to Ælflæda (died 920), a daughter of Æthelhelm,Ealdorman of Wiltshire and a granddaughter of Æthelred I, King of England866 - 871. Thus, Edward and Ælflæda were first cousins once removed.
Edward the Elder and Ælflæda had the following children:
Ælfweard, King of England for a brief period in 924. He died on August 1,924.
Edgifu (902 - 951) who married Charles III "the Simple", King of France
Edhilda who married Hugh Capet "the Great" of Neustria, Count of Paris
Eadgyth (Edith), died January 26, 946, who married Otto I "the Great",King of Duitsland
Ælfgifu who is said to have married "a prince near the Alps", likelyBoleslaw II "the Pious", Duke of Bohemia or perhaps Conrad "the Pacific",King of Burgundy
Edward and Ælflæda are also said to have had the following children:
Edfæd, a nun at Wilton
Edwin possibly a Sub King of Kent who drowned in 933.
Ælfæda, a nun at Winchester who died circa 963.
Æthelfæda, Abbess of Romsey
Æthelhild, a recluse who died and was interred at Romsey Abbey, Hampshire
Edward married third to Eadgifu (Edgiva) a daughter of Sigehelm,Ealdorman of Kent and they had the following children:
Edgifu who married Louis II, King of Provence/Arles
St. Edburga, a nun at Nunnaminster who died on June 15, 960
Edmund I the Elder, King of England 939 - 946, born in 921
Eadred, King of England 946 - 955, born circa 924 and died on November23, 955.
Gregory, Abbot of Einsiedlen who may have been an illegitimate son ofKing Edward by another mother.

Reigned 899-924. He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, & alsoconquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920).

Ruled England 899-924 Crowned at Kingston upon Thames 31 May 902 Buriedat Winchester Possibly Edward reigned for a time with his father, Alfred,or as a lesser king under him, for he signed charters as "rex" in 898.But in any case he was elected king by the Witan when Alfred died. Hespent the early part of his reign in fighting the apparently interminablewars against the Danes which so vitiated this era of our history. Inthese wars he was helped by his sister Ethelfleda, Lady of Mercia, onwhose death he annexed Mercia and was acknowledged "father and lord" bymost of England, parts of Wales and Scotland, and also by many of theNorse leaders. The last years of Edward's reign were peaceful, and aboutthem little is known, for history in those days was principally concernedwith war.

Edward, byname EDWARD THE ELDER (d. July 17, 924, Farndon on Dee,England), Anglo-Saxon king in England, the son of Alfred the Great. Asruler of the West Saxons, or Wessex, from 899 to 924, Edward extended hisauthority over almost all of England by conquering areas that previouslyhad been held by Danish invaders. Edward ascended the throne upon hisfather's death in October 899, and in a battle in 902 his forces killed arival claimant, Aethelwald, who had allied with the Danes. Afterdefeating the Northumbrian Danes at Tettenhall, he set out in August 912to subdue the Danes of the eastern Midlands and East Anglia. From 910 to916 he constructed a series of fortified enclosures around his Kingdom ofWessex. At the same time, his sister, the Mercian ruler Aethelflaed,constructed a complementary series of fortresses in the northwestMidlands. In 917 Edward and Aethelflaed launched a massive offensive,quickly overwhelming the entire Danish army of East Anglia. UponAethelflaed's death in June 918, Edward assumed control of Mercia, and bythe end of the year the last Danish armies in the Midlands had submitted.By that time Edward's kingdom included all the land south of the Humberestuary; in 920 he pacified Northumbria. Complete political unificationof England was achieved during the reign of his son and successor,Athelstan (reigned 924-939). [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97, EDWARD]

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NOTE: According to the pedigree of Augustine H. Ayers as contained onCD-100, Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees #1, Eadgyth wasthe daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England, and Elfleda/Aelflaedof Wiltshire. Regarding Edward, Encyclopaedia Britannica (1961 edition)states, "he was thrice married: (1) to Ecgwyn, a lady of rank, by whom hehad a son Aethelstan, who succeeded him, and a daughter Eadgyth, whomarried Sihtric of Northumbria in 924. This marriage was probably anirregular one. (2) To Aelflaed, by whom he had two sons----Aelfweard, whodied a fortnight after his father, and Eadwine, who was drowned in933----and six daughters, Aethelflaed and Aethelhild, nuns, and fourothers (see AETHELSTAN). (3) To Eadgifu, the mother of Kings Edmund andEdred, and of two daughters."

The article on Aethelstan states "one of Aethelstan's first public actswas to hold a conference at Tamworth with Sihtric, the Scandinavian kingof Northumbria, and as a result, Sihtric received Aethelstan's sister inmarriage. In the next year Sihtric died and Aethelstan took over theNorthumbrian kingdom...By the marriage of his half-sisters he was broughtinto connection with the chief royal and princely houses of France andGermany. His sister Eadgifu married Charles the Simple, Eadhild becamethe wife of Hugh the Great, duke of France, Eadgyth was married to theemperor Otto the Great, and her sister, Aelfgifu, to a petty Germanprince."

In the Edward article, Aethelstan and Eadgyth (who married Sihtric) hadthe same mother and implies no other children of that relationship. Inthe Aethelstan article, the Eadgyth who married Otto had a sister,Aelfgifu. Therefore, this Eadgyth cannot be Eadgyth the sister ofAethelstan since Aethelstan had only one sister. The article on Edwardmentions six daughters by Aelflaed (two of whom are named, the ones whobecame nuns,) leaving four who are unnamed (and referring the reader tothe article on Aethelstan), and two daughters by Eadgifu, we have a totalof six unnamed daughters. From the information in the Aethelstan article,we are provided with the names of four, Eadgifu, Eadhild, Eadgyth, andAelfgifu. By reference from the Edward article, does this mean all fournamed in the Aethelstan article are the remaining unnamed daughters byAelflaed? We are still left with two unnamed daughters, and are unsure ifthey are the two daughters of Eadgifu, or possibly one or more ofAelflaed.

The Aethelstan and Edward articles were written by A. M., the author ofthe Otto article is not identified. Since the Aethelstan and Edwardarticles were authored by the same person, the implication is that he/sheis including the names of Aelflaed's remaining four daughters in theAethestan article.

The article on Otto I, the Great, in the same set of Britannica states,"In 929 he married Edith, daughter of Edward the Elder, king of theEnglish, and sister of the reigning King Aethelstan." Note the referenceto 'sister' and not 'half-sister.' Does this mean this is the sameEadgyth/Edith who married Sihtric? This does not seem so inasmuch as theAethelstan article clearly states Eadgyth who married Otto had a sister,Aelfgifu.

Did Edward have two daughters named Eadgyth? From the information given,it is impossible to determine the mother of the Eadgyth who married Otto.

Additionally, in The Saxon and Norman Kings, by Christopher Brooke,Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1963, is found, in reference to the continentalfriends of Athelstan, "Henry I of Duitsland, who asked for Athelstan'ssister as wife to his son Otto; Hugh the Great, duke of the Franks, andConrad duke of Burgundy, who married two other sisters of the king." ThisConrad, duke of Burgundy, must be the 'petty German prince' to whomAelfgifu was married, for, at that time, Burgundy was not a part ofFrance, but was Germanic.

REFN: 3435
Well-trained by Alfred, his son Edward 'the Elder' (reigned 899-924 ) was
a bold soldier who defeated the Danes in Northumbria at Tettenhall in 9 10
and was acknowledged by the Viking kingdom of York. The kings of
Strathc lyde and the Scots submitted to Edward in 921. By military success
and patien t planning, Edward spread English influence and control. Much
of this was due to his alliance with his formidable sister Aethelflaed,
who was married to t he ruler of Mercia and seems to have governed that
kingdom after her husband' s death.
Edward was able to establish an administration for the kingdom of
E ngland, whilst obtaining the allegiance of Danes, Scots and Britons.
Edward d ied in 924, and he was buried in the New Minster which he had had
completed a t Winchester. Edward was twice married, but it is possible
that his eldest so n Athelstan was the son of a mistress.Ancestral FileNumber: 9GB3-CL
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1 NAME Edward I, "The Elder" King of /England/

Acceded 899-924.

Edward 'the Elder'
Well-trained by Alfred, his son Edward 'the Elder' (reigned 899-924) wasa bold soldier who defeated the Danes in Northumbria at Tettenhall in 910and was acknowledged by the Viking kingdom of York. The kings ofStrathclyde and the Scots submitted to Edward in 921. By military successand patient planning, Edward spread English influence and control. Muchof this was due to his alliance with his formidable sister Aethelflaed,who was married to the ruler of Mercia and seems to have governed thatkingdom after her husband's death.
Edward was able to establish an administration for the kingdom ofEngland, whilst obtaining the allegiance of Danes, Scots and Britons.Edward died in 924, and he was buried in the New Minster which he had hadcompleted at Winchester. Edward was twice married, but it is possiblethat his eldest son Athelstan was the son of a mistress.
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Reigned 899-924. He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, & alsoconquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920).
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Reigned 899-924. He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, & alsoconquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920).
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Reigned 899-924. He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, & alsoconquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920).

Ev död 7 Oct 0924

He succeeded as king of the Angles and Saxons in 899, despite a rebellion
led by his cousin Æthelwald (died 902) with the support of the Danes of
Northumbria and East Anglia. After a protracted struggle he defeated the
Danes, and in 912, on the death of his brother-in-law Æthelred, ealderman
of Mercia, he annexed the cities of London and Oxford and their environs.
The Danes submitted formally in 918, and soon thereafter the sovereignty
of Eadward was acknowledged by the North Welsh, the Scots, the
Northumbrians, and the Welsh of Strathclyde. Eadward was succeeded by his
son Æthelstan.

Edward the ElderEdward the Elder, King of Wessex The Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Elder, r. 899-924, unified most of England south of the Humber River. He succeeded his father, ALFRED, as king of WESSEX and continued the wars of resistance against the Danes. Conducting a series of joint campaigns with his sister, AEthelflaed of Mercia, he destroyed a Danish army in 910 and by 918 had virtually extinguished Danish power in England. On AEthelflaed's death in the same year, English Mercia was incorporated into Wessex. In 920, Edward received the formal submissions of Raegnald, the Scandinavian king of York; Ealdred, ruler of English Northumbria; the Welsh king of Strathclyde; and possibly Constantine II of Scotland. He died on July 17, 924, and was succeeded by his son Athelstan. Bibliography: Stenton, Frank M., Anglo-Saxon England, 3d ed. (1971)

KNOWN AS EDWARD "THE ELDER"; ACCEDED 10/899 (CROWNED KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES);
UNITED THE ENGLISH; CLAIMED SCOTLAND

KING OF WESSEX

SLAIN IN BATTLE AGAINST HIS BROTHER

!SOURCES:
1. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-47
2. The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 6-7
3. Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 143-197
4. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21
5. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 12-13, 96-97
6. Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 251
7. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. 4, 5
8. Anderson's Royal Gen., Eng. 132, p. 738
9. Betham's Gen. Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602
!RESEARCH NOTES:
One early English chronicle claims Thyra, the wife of Gorm "The Old", King of Denmark, was the daughter of Edward I; however, all other early sagas and chronicles identify her as the daughter of (Earl) Klakharald of Jutland or Holstein.This is most likely as indicated by her great love and devotion to the Danish people in her efforts to better their conditions and to educate them. Based uponthe one supposition mentioned above, however, she was erroneously sealed to theabove couple on 28 Sep 1937.

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Yrke: Kung i England från 899-924
Far: Alfred (den store) av ENGLAND (849 - 900)
Mor: Ealhswith av GAINI (850 - )

Händelse Datum Plats Källa
Födelse omkr 869 England, Wessex University of Hull
Död 924-07-17 England, Farndon-on-Dee University of Hull

Familj med: Ecgwyn NN
Barn: Ethelstan, kung i England från 925-940

Händelse Datum Källa
Vigsel omkr 894 Egen beräkning

Familj med Elflaeda NN (870 - 904)
Barn: Eadgyth (Edith) WESSEX (897 - 937)

Händelse Datum Källa
Vigsel omkr 897 Egen beräkning

Familj med: Eadgifu (Edgiva)
Barn: Edmund (den äldre), kung i England

Händelse Datum Källa
Vigsel omkr 905 University of Hull

Noteringar
Under de första åren av 900-talet, då kung Edward av Wessex på alla sätt sökte tillskansa sig makten över de områden danskarna besatt och samtidigt hade att avvärja vikingarnas anfall från norr och öster, tog uppförandet av befästningsverk fart. Tvärs över södra England uppfördes med beslutsamhet och framgång minst 30 borgar, eller boroughs, som engelsmännen då kallade dem. Från år 910 och framöver kom dessa borgar att utgöra baser i återerövringen av det danskockuperade England. Witham-borgen i Wessex, uppförd av kung Edward 912, bestod till exempel av ett väl planerat system av vallar och vallgravar som täckte ett område av cirka elva hektar. Före sin död hade Edward blivit erkänd som kung söder om floden Humber, både över engelskt och danskt område. (Källa: Vikingen, Nordbok 1975)

He defeated the Danes (918), taking East Anglia, and also conquered Mercia (918) and Northumbria (920). (Källa: University of Hull)

Han fortsatte faderns kamp mot nordborna och påbörjade Danelagens erövring. Danelagen var den del av England som i vikingatidens mitt löd under dansk lag. Det omfattade Northumberland, East Anglia, halva Mercia och delar av Essex. Engelsmännen återerövrade så småningom områdena och vid mitten av 900-talet var hela Danelagen åter under engelsk överhöghet. (Källa: Bra Böcker)

887189766. Kong Edvard I den Eldre ALFREDSON av England was a Konge in 901 in England.(21464) He died in 924. He was married to Elfled ETHELHEIMSDTR in 901.

Line 4668 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
NAME Edward I "The Elder" /England/
!SOURCES:
1. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-47
2. The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 6-7
3. Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 143-197
4. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21
5. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 12-13, 96-97
6. Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 251
7. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. 4, 5
8. Anderson's Royal Gen., Eng. 132, p. 738
9. Betham's Gen. Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602
!RESEARCH NOTES:
One early English chronicle claims Thyra, the wife of Gorm "The Old", King of Denmark, was the daughter of Edward I; however, all other early sagas and chronicles identify her as the daughter of (Earl) Klakharald of Jutland or Holstein. This is most likely as indicated by her great love and devotion to the Danish people in her efforts to better their conditions and to educate them. Based upon the one supposition mentioned above, however, she was erroneously sealed to the above couple on 28 Sep 1937.

Succeeded his Father about 901. He raised the supremacy of Wessex into something little short of imperial authority, holding sway over Mercia, East Anglia and Northumberland. His death may have been in 924. Succeeded by the son of his 1st marriage. {Burke�s Peerage & Chamber�s Biographical Dictionary} [GADD.GED]

King of the Anglo-Saxons 899-924. Also has birth date of 875 and death date of 17 Jul 924. [ROWLEYHR.GED]

Additional information: Britannia.com http://britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon7.html

Also have birth as 875 in Wessex, England. [Betz Homepage http://info.lu.farmingdale.edu/~betzja/gene]

Also have death as 925 in Farrington, Berkshire, England. [Betz Homepage http://info.lu.farmingdale.edu/~betzja/gene]

He succeeded as king of the Angles and Saxons in 899, despite arebellion led by his cousin Athelwald (died 902) with the support ofthe Danes of Northumbria and East Anglia. After a protracted strugglehe defeated the Danes, and in 912, on the death of his brother-in-lawAthelred, ealderman of Mercia, he annexed the cities of London andOxford and their environs. The Danes submitted formally in 918, andsoon thereafter the sovereignty of Eadward was acknowledged by theNorth Welsh, the Scots, the Northumbrians, and the Welsh ofStrathclyde. Eadward was succeeded by his son Athelstan.

!SOURCES:
1. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-47
2. The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 6-7
3. Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 143-197
4. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21
5. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 12-13, 96-97
6. Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 251
7. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. 4, 5
8. Anderson's Royal Gen., Eng. 132, p. 738
9. Betham's Gen. Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602
!RESEARCH NOTES:
One early English chronicle claims Thyra, the wife of Gorm "The Old", King of Denmark, was the daughter of Edward I; however, all other early sagas and chronicles identify her as the daughter of (Earl) Klakharald of Jutland or Holstein. This is most likely as indicated by her great love and devotion to the Danish people in her efforts to better their conditions and to educate them. Based upon the one supposition mentioned above, however, she was erroneously sealed to the above couple on 28 Sep 1937.

From THE RUFUS PARKS PEDIGREE by Brian J.L. Berry, chart pg 45.

Page 50:

15. Edward the Elder, 875-924; King of England from 901; a cool, efficient leader supported by a growing national spirit, he methodically turned back the Danes in their new attempt to overrun the island, defeated them piecemeal and by the time of his death was not only the supreme English king but the only English king. He mar. (3) Eadgifu, d. 961, dau. of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent. He was succeeded by a son Athelstan, who managed to meet the new Danish Outbreaks with suddess. At the time of his death 939, the realm was at peace. His only son predeceased him so the crown passed to his brother Edmund.

Line 4668 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
NAME Edward I "The Elder" /England/
!SOURCES:
1. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-47
2. The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 6-7
3. Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 143-197
4. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21
5. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 12-13, 96-97
6. Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 251
7. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. 4, 5
8. Anderson's Royal Gen., Eng. 132, p. 738
9. Betham's Gen. Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602
!RESEARCH NOTES:
One early English chronicle claims Thyra, the wife of Gorm "The Old", King of Denmark, was the daughter of Edward I; however, all other early sagas and chronicles identify her as the daughter of (Earl) Klakharald of Jutland or Holstein.This is most likely as indicated by her great love and devotion to the Danish people in her efforts to better their conditions and to educate them. Based uponthe one supposition mentioned above, however, she was erroneously sealed to theabove couple on 28 Sep 1937.

RESEARCH NOTES:
King of England (899/900 - 924)
Edward arguably exceeded Alfred's military achievements, restoring the Danelaw
to Saxon rule and reigning in Mercia from 918, after the death of his sister,
Ethelfleda. He spent his early reign fighting his cousin Aethelwald, son of
Ethelred I. He had about eighteen children from his three marriages, and may
have had an illegitimate child, too. He died in 924 and was buried at
Winchester.
Hvis det er riktig at Tyra was daughter of Edward, and ble gitt som "Danebot"
til herjende vikinger under ledelse of Gorm (Guthrum?), kan she muligens ha
vaert frilledatter. Det kjennes ingen kilder for hvem som was hennes mor.

!SOURCES:
1. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-47
2. The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 6-7
3. Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 143-197
4. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21
5. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 12-13, 96-97
6. Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 251
7. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. 4, 5
8. Anderson's Royal Gen., Eng. 132, p. 738
9. Betham's Gen. Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602
!RESEARCH NOTES:
One early English chronicle claims Thyra, the wife of Gorm "The Old", King of Denmark, was the daughter of Edward I; however, all other early sagas and chronicles identify her as the daughter of (Earl) Klakharald of Jutland or Holstein.This is most likely as indicated by her great love and devotion to the Danish people in her efforts to better their conditions and to educate them. Based uponthe one supposition mentioned above, however, she was erroneously sealed to theabove couple on 28 Sep 1937.

AFN:9GB3-CL

The Elder
From Genealogical Library book "House of Adam".

Line 5913 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
NAME Edward I, "The Elder" King Of /ENGLAND/

He was crowned at Kingston when he succeeded his father on 25 Oct 900. He ruled from 899 to 924. His mistress was Egwina.

He had three sons.

He was crowned at Kingston when he succeeded his father on 25 Oct 900. He ruled from 899 to 924. His mistress was Egwina.

He had three sons.

Edvard den eldre (født ca. 871, død 17. juli 924) var konge av England fra 899 til sin død. Han ville normalt være regnet som Edvard I, men etter normannisk tradisjon begynte man etter Vilhelm Erobreren å telle på nytt, slik at det tre kongene som het Edvard før den tid er kjent etter sine tilnavn.

Edvard var sønn av Alfred den store, og kom til makten ved farens død. Tittelen han arvet var konge av Wessex, men på dette tidspunkt kontrollerte Wessex størsteparten av dagens England og han regnes derfor som konge av England og ikke bare av Wessex.

Han overgikk sin far på slagmarken, noe som er en bragd ettersom Alfred med hell forsvarte sitt rike og fastsatte grenser for Danelagen. Fra 918, da søsteren Ethelfleda døde, hadde Edvard kontroll over Danelagen. I de tidligste årene av hans regjeringstid måtte han i tillegg til danene også kjempe mot sin fetter Aethelwald, sønn av Ethelred I.

Edvard var gift tre ganger, og fikk omkring 18 barn med sine koner. I tillegg mistenkes det at han hadde et barn utenom ekteskap. Sønnen Ethelweard etterfulgte ham, mens datteren Eadgifu giftet seg med kong Karl III av Frankrike, og ble mor til Ludvig IV. En annen datter, Adiva, giftet seg med Boleslav I av Böhmen og var mor til prinsesse Dobrawa. En datter hvis navn er ukjent ble gift med Sigtrygg Caech, konge av Dublin og Jorvik.

Han døde 17. juli 924, og ble gravlagt i Winchesterkatedralen.

Line 4668 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
NAME Edward I "The Elder" /England/
!SOURCES:
1. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-47
2. The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 6-7
3. Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 143-197
4. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21
5. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 12-13, 96-97
6. Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 251
7. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. 4, 5
8. Anderson's Royal Gen., Eng. 132, p. 738
9. Betham's Gen. Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602
!RESEARCH NOTES:
One early English chronicle claims Thyra, the wife of Gorm "The Old", King of Denmark, was the daughter of Edward I; however, all other early sagas and chronicles identify her as the daughter of (Earl) Klakharald of Jutland or Holstein.This is most likely as indicated by her great love and devotion to the Danish people in her efforts to better their conditions and to educate them. Based uponthe one supposition mentioned above, however, she was erroneously sealed to theabove couple on 28 Sep 1937.

1 NAME the Elder //
2 GIVN the Elder
2 SURN
2 NICK the Elder

1 NAME Edward the /Elder/, King of England 1 NAME Edward the Elder /England/ 2 SOUR S033320 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001 1 BIRT 2 DATE 875 2 PLAC ,Wessex, England 2 SOUR S033320 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001 1 DEAT 2 DATE 9 JUL 924 2 PLAC ,Farndon, Berkshire, England 2 SOUR S033320 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001

[De La Pole.FTW]
Sources: RC 233, 261, 321, 359, 376; Coe; A. Roots 1-16, 16, 45; AF; Warrior Kings; Shorter History of England; Through the Ages; K and Q of Britain; Pfafman; Kraentzler 1470, 1475, 1631; Kirby; Young; Magna Charta Sureties 161-2. Edward was a Bretwala (King of Kings). First King of all England. Ruled from 899-924. K&Q says from 899-925. Several daughters became nuns.
K: Edward I, "The Pious." Roots: Edward the Elder, Saxon King of England, married (2) Alfflaed, (3) Eadgifu. Sureties: Edward I, the Elder, King of England 901-924. Born 875 and died 924.
Kirby: Eadweard. Young: Edward the Elder, died 924, King of England and overlord of the Welsh princes. Warrior Kings: "Edward, eldest son, was a warrior rather than a scholar, though in this capacity he probably took a good deal of weight from his father's shoulders. The relationship between father and son seems to have been amicable."

!SOURCES:
1. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-47
2. The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 6-7
3. Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 143-197
4. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21
5. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 12-13, 96-97
6. Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 251
7. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. 4, 5
8. Anderson's Royal Gen., Eng. 132, p. 738
9. Betham's Gen. Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602

!RESEARCH NOTES:
One early English chronicle claims Thyra, the wife of Gorm "The Old", King of Denmark, was the daughter of Edward I; however, all other early sagas and chronicles identify her as the daughter of (Earl) Klakharald of Jutland or Holstein.This is most likely as indicated by her great love and devotion to the Danish people in her efforts to better their conditions and to educate them. Based uponthe one supposition mentioned above, however, she was erroneously sealed to theabove couple on 28 Sep 1937.

Line 4668 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
NAME Edward I "The Elder" /England/

!SOURCES:
1. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings & Nobles, Eng. 104, p. 342-47
2. The Royal Line of Succession, A16A225, p. 6-7
3. Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 143-197
4. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21
5. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 12-13, 96-97
6. Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 251
7. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. 4, 5
8. Anderson's Royal Gen., Eng. 132, p. 738
9. Betham's Gen. Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602
!RESEARCH NOTES:
One early English chronicle claims Thyra, the wife of Gorm "The Old", King of Denmark, was the daughter of Edward I; however, all other early sagas and chronicles identify her as the daughter of (Earl) Klakharald of Jutland or Holstein.This is most likely as indicated by her great love and devotion to the Danish people in her efforts to better their conditions and to educate them. Based uponthe one supposition mentioned above, however, she was erroneously sealed to theabove couple on 28 Sep 1937.

Edward was crowned on 8 June 900 at Kingston-on-Thames, where the ancient coronation stone of the Saxon kings [which gave the town its name] may still be seen. In the course of his reign he annexed the Danelaw south of the Humber and was acknowledged as overlord by the Danish King of York, the King of Scots, the King of the Strathclyde Britons and others.
He married three times and had a large family. His first wife, Ecgwynn [Egwina], is sometimes described as a concubine 'of humble origin', but there is no real reason to suppose this, even though her antecedents have not been recorded. At any rate, her son Athelstan was always regarded as Edward's heir and as a child was a great favorite of his grandfather Alfred. Edward's second wife was Elfleda, daughter of Ealdorman Ethelhelm. By her he had two sons, the elder of whom died very soon after his father, the younger being drowned in the English Channel in 933. There were also six daughters. Edward's third and last wife was Eadgifu, daughter of Ealdorman Sigehelm of Kent, who bore him two sons, successively kings, and two daughters. Edward's many daughters either made grand marriageswith Continental royalty or became nuns.
Edward the Elder died at Farndon-on-Dee in Mercia on 17 July 925, and was buried at Winchester. His widow, Queen Eadgifu, lived on for many years and died in the reigh of her grandson King Edgar on 25 August 968.

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Æþelwulf
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