General Notes

"The course of English history would have been very different had it not been for King Alfred. He won renown both as a statesman and as a warrior and is justly called "the Great." The England of Alfred`s time was a country of four small Saxon kingdoms. The strongest was Wessex, in the south. Born in about 848, Alfred was the youngest son of Ethelwulf, king of Wessex. Each of Alfred`s three older brothers, in turn, ruled the kingdom. Alfred was by temperament a scholar, and his health was never robust.  Nevertheless in his early youth he fought with his brother Ethelred against Danish invaders. Alfred was 23 when Ethelred died, but he had already won the confidence of the army and was at once acclaimed king in 871. By this time the Danes, or Vikings, had penetrated to all parts of the island. Three of the Saxon kingdoms--Northumbria, Mercia, and East Anglia--had one after another fallen to the Danish invaders. Under Alfred`s leadership, the Saxons again found courage." (See

"Ethel" in Saxon means "of high birth", and four of Alfred's siblings had that prefix in their name; however, Alfred meant "elf counsel."  It is thus speculated that his mother Osburga named him, as her name refers to "nature pixies."  Alfred, the youngest son of Ethelwulf was age 4 years when he was sent with a "large retinue" to Rome and was received by Pope Leo IV. (See "RoyaList Online, link below.)
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SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File #   (familysearch.org)
WEB:
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