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TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 AUTH Frederi ck Lewis Weis PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992 Same ref source as earlie r ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623-1650" ed 1-6 good to ver y good J.H. Garner Book PAGE line 1B p 5, line 1 pp 1-4 TEXT no parents
TEXT King of Wessex 839-858
TITL University of Hull Royal Database (England) AUTH Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Scien ce PUBL copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines , mythological figures, etc WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX bct@@tardis.ed.ac.u k Electronic ALIA AEthelwulf /King of England/
TITL Royal Genealogies DB AUTH Denis R. Reid PUBL 149 Kimrose Lane, Broadview Heights, OH 441 47-1258 216/237-5364 OK http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html ah189@@cleveland.free net.edu Electronic
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_FA1 PLAC Reigned 839-856, abdicated to son Ethelbald & became Under-king of Kent again.
_FA2 PLAC Under-king of Kent 825-839 & 856-858.
_FA3 PLAC Acceded as King of Wessex: 4 Feb 839, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey.
_FA4 PLAC In 851 he defeated 350 Viking ships at Oakley, England after London fell.
_FA5 PLAC Reduced taxation, endowed the Church.
_FA6 PLAC Made lay lands inheritable, & provided systems of poor relief.
_FA7 PLAC Buried in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England.
_FA8 PLAC King of Wessex, Sussex, Kent & Essex.
_FA9 PLAC Defeated Danish host at Battle of Aclea (850).
_FA10 PLAC Renowned for his military prowess.
_FA11 DATE 851 PLAC 1st ruler in western Europe to defeat a Viking army in a major battle.
_FA12 PLAC Pilgrimage to Rome, 855.
TITL Fighting Kings of Wessex AUTH G.P. Baker PUBL Combined Books, Conshohocken, PA 199 6 BookREF: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p E291. 'Royalty for Commoners', Roderic k W. Stuart, 1993, p 185: Reigned 839-856 (abdicated). Under-king of Kent 825-839 & 856-858 . Renowned for his military prowess, he reputedly defeated 350 Viking ships (year 851, at Oak ley, England). He reduced taxation, endowed the Church, made lay lands inheritable, & provi ded systems of poor relief. Ethelwulf became king of the West Saxons in England when his fath er, Egbert, died in 839. In 851, he became the first ruler in all western Europe to defea t a viking army in a major battle. REF: "Fighting Kings of Wessex", Baker: Sent by his fathe r Ecgbert in 825 into Kent to drive out Baldred, the Mercian regulus. Not only Kent, Susse x & Surrey, but Essex too gave their submission to Aethilwulf. Suddenly Wessex was N of the T hames.