Aethelwulf King of Kent & Wessex 
Aethelwulf King of Kent & was born in 0806 in Wessex, England. Aethelwulf King of Kent &'s father was Egbert I King of Kent & Wessex and his mother was Raedburh de Carolingians. His paternal grandparents were Eahlmund Under-King of Kent and Princess of Kent; his maternal grandparents were Pepin III "The Short" King of Franks and Berthe of Laon. He was an only child. He died in Stamridge. He was buried in Reburied at Winchester, Hampshire, England.General Notes
Aethelwulf, also spelled ETHELWULF (d. 858), Anglo-Saxon king in England, the father of King Alfred the Great. As ruler of the West Saxons from 839 to 856, he allied his kingdom of Wessex with Mercia and thereby withstood invasions by Danish Vikings.
The son of the great West Saxon king Egbert (ruled 802-839), Aethelwulf ascended the throne four years after the Danes had begun large-scale raids on the English coast. In 851 he scored a major victory over a large Danish army at a place called Aclea in Surrey. Aethelwulf then married his daughter to the Mercian king Burgred (853), and in 856 he himself married the daughter of Charles II the Bald, king of the West Franks. Aethelwulf was deposed by a rival faction upon his return from a pilgrimage to Rome in 856, but he continued to rule Kent and several other eastern provinces until his death. In addition to Alfred the Great (ruled 871-899), three of Aethelwulf's other sons became kings of Wessex. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0758 in Wessex, England d.0788
- b.0775 in Wessex, England d.>19 Nov 0838 in Wessex, England
- b.< 0762 in Kent, England
- b.0806 in Wessex, England d.13 JAN 857/58 in Stamridge
- b.0714 in Austrasia, France d.24 Sep 0768 in St Denis, Paris, Seine, France
- b.< 0774 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia d. in Wessex, England
- b.~ 0725 in Laon, Aisne, France d.12 Jul 0783 in Choisy, Haute-Savoie, France
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Aethelwulf King of Kent & and Osburh were married in a religious ceremony about 0830. They had four sons named Aethelbald King of, Aethelberht King of Kent &, Aethelred I King of Kent & and Alfred "The Great" West Saxon King of.
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Children
Aethelbald King of Wessex
Aethelbald King of was born about 0826 in Wessex, England. He died in 0860 in (dsp).
Aethelberht King of Kent & Wessex
Aethelberht King of Kent & was born about 0828 in Wessex, England. He died in (dsp).
Aethelred I King of Kent & Wessex
Aethelred I King of Kent & was born about 0830 in Wessex, England. He died on April 23rd, 0871 in Merton, Torrington, Devonshire, England. He was buried in Wimborne, Dorsetshire, England.
Alfred "The Great" West Saxon King of England
Alfred "The Great" West Saxon King of was born in 0849 in Wantage, Berkshire, England. He died at the age of 50 on October 26th, 0899 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England.
Aethelwulf King of Kent & and Judith Princess of were married in a religious ceremony in 0856 in 1st husband 2nd wife.
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