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Persoonlijke gegevens Alfred van Wessex 

• Alternatieve naam: de Grote (ook bekend als / alias)
• Hij is geboren in het jaar 849 in Wantage, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
• Hij is overleden op 28 oktober 901, hij was toen 52 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
• De biologische ouders zijn Aethelwulf van Wessex en Osburga van Wight
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 22 september 2024.

Gezin van Alfred van Wessex

Hij is getrouwd met Ealswith van Gainas.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 865.

Kind(eren):

1. Elfrida van Wessex  ± 865-929 
2. Eduard I van Wessex  ± 874-924 

Notities over Alfred van Wessex

Bijgenaamd de Grote, Koning van Wessex

Koning van Wessex en Kent in de periode 871-899.
Alfred, the brother of Ethelred, was born at Wantage. He helped his brother gain a great victory over the Danes at Ashdown in 871. Alfred organisde the army and was the founder of the English Navy. By 877 the Danes had occupied London and reached Gloucester and Exeter, but they lost 120 supply ships in a fierce storm off Swanage. In 878 he was forced to hide in Somerset and it was there arose the legend of the burned cakes. He renewed the fight and won a famous victory at Edington in Wiltshire the same year. After, the Danes agreed that their king, Guthrum, should be baptised and Alfred was godfather. Afterwards Guthrum ruled Mercia but acknowledged Alfred as Overlord. The Mercian settlement developed over the next 100 years into the body known as Danelaw. Before that, in 879 at Fulham and also near Rochester in 884, other Norse Armies landed. Alfred continued fighting until he was the acknowledged champion of the English against the Danes. Alfred was scholarly, a writer, law-maker (His laws were the first that made no distinction between English an the Welsh peoples), pious and also a valiant fighter. Additionally he had a good knowledge of geography. He was a most able administrator and also instituted educational programmes. He founded monasteries and gave a large part of his income to charities. His wife was Ealswith. Alfred died on the 26th October, some say in 901, but others in 900, but the more generally accepted year is 899. He laid the foundation for the unification of England.

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