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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.

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/genealogy/gedhtml/kmilburn/d0002/g0000003.htm#I1440

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2nd gen. desc. of Alfred 'The Great' of Britain.  Acceded to the throne upon the death of Alfred 'The Great' in 899.  In 910, he defeated the Danes at the Battle of Tettenhall and advanced into portions of East Anglia, the Midlands, and Essex.  Defeated the Danes in 918 where he took East Anglia; conquered Mercia in 918; acknowledged by the princes of West Wales as overlord in 919; and conquered portions of Northumbria in 920. His son, Athelstan, becomes King of all England upon his death in 925.
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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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Aug 19, 1997

GIVN Edward I, King of
SURN England
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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
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