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OCCU Under-king of Kent ...
SOUR The Kirkpatrick Family by John L. Shawver, p. 169 say 800;
COMYNR.TAF, p. 3 & COMYNJ.TAF (Compuserve), p. 15 say BEF 824;
GWALTNEY.ANC (Comp) ABT 795; Royalty for Commoners, p. 171 says c806, Wessex
SOUR Enclyclopedia, p. 9;
Anglo-Saxon England, Frank Stenton, p. 245; COMYN4.TAF (Com..e) says ABT 858;
GWALTNEY.ANC 4064358656; Royalty for Commoners, p. 171 say 13 Jan 858
SOUR http://misc.traveller.com/ge nealogy/gedhtml/kmilburn/d0002/g0000003.htm#I1440;
SOUR Anglo-Saxon England, Frank Stenton, p. 235;
http://misc.traveller.com/genealo gy/gedhtml/kmilburn/d0002/g0000003.htm#I1440;
AETHELWULF,son of EGBERT and RAEBURGH, was King of Wessex, son of Egbert ... With his son AEthelbald, he won a notable victory over the Danes at Aclea(851).  He married Judith of France in 856. A man of great piety, he learned while on pilgrimage in Rome that AEthelbald would resist his return.  He left his  son as king in Wessex and ruled in Kent and its dependencies. - Encyclpedia, p. 9... held Kent as an under-king during his father's last years (C.S. 418,419). On his own succession to Wessex, he gave it to his eldest son Athelstan.  In 859, to avoid a civil war (below, p. 245), Aethelwulf resigned Wessex to AEthelbald his eldest son, and confined himself to the rule of Kent,Sussex, Surrey, and Essex. On AEthelwulf's death in 858 these provinces passed to AEthelberht his second son (C.S., 496, Chronicle under 855), who reunited them to the West Saxon kingdom when he succeeded AEthelbald as king of Wessex in 860.  But the kingdom of Essex, as enlarged by Egbert, was regarded as a unity in spite of these arrangements and Asser, writing under King Alfred, lays stress on its integrity (Vita Alfredi, c. 12). - Anglo-Saxon England, Sir Frank Stenton, p. 233
Ordered his successors to send a gift of 300 mancuses each year to Rome (Asser, Vita Alfredi, c. 16) - Anglo-Saxon England, Sir Frank Stenton, p. 217 AEthelwulf seems to have been a religious and unambitious man, for whom engagement in war and politics was an unwelcome consequence of rank. Early in 855, after reigning for nearly sixteen years, he undertook a pilgrimage to Rome, leaving the
government of his kingdom to AEthelbald, his eldest surviving son.  He spent twelve months in Rome, and he seems to have passed the summer and early autumn of 856 at the court of Charles the Bald [Charlamagne], king of the West Franks.  On 1 October,at Verberie-sur-Oise, he married Judith, Charles's daughter.  She can only have been thirteen years of age, and the marriage should probably be regarded as nothing more than a demonstration of alliance between two kings threatened by the same enemy.
On, if not before, his return to England, AEthelwulf learned that his eldest son and some of the leading men in Wessex were resolved that he should not be received as king, and to avoid a civil war he agreed to a division of the kingdom, leaving Wessex to AEthelbald and taking for himself Kent and the other parts of south-eastern England which Egbert had annexed in 825.  On the death of AEthelwulf in 858,  these provinces passed to AEthelberht, his second son.  AEthelbald, who had married his father's young widow, apparently without raising any scandal among the churchmen of her country, died in 860, and the West Saxon kingdom was then reunited under AEthelberht.  Five years later he also died, presumably, like AEthelbald, without children, and AEthelred, his brother, became king. - Anglo-Saxon England,
Sir Frank Stenton, p. 245
King of Wessex, Sussex, Kent, Essex ruled 839-858 - RULERS.ENG (Compuserve)
King of Wessex and Kent, King of England, 839-858; He visited Rome in 839 - Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 171
King of Wessex - Anglo-Saxon England, Frank Stenton, p. 344
Names sometimes spelled Ethelwulf; King of Wessex, Sussex, Kent and Essex -
RULERS.ENG (Compuserve); King 839-858 - In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael
Wood, p. 11

OCCU King of Wessex 839-58

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Acceded: 4 FEB 839, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
Interred: Winchester Cathedral, London, England
Notes:
Reigned 839-856 (abdicated). Under-king of Kent 825-839 and 856-858.
Renown for his military prowess, he reputedly defeated 350 Viking ships (851).
He reduced taxation, endowed the Church, made lay lands inheritable, and provided systems of poor relief.