Alfred the Great 
Alfred the was born in 0846 in Wantage, Berkshire. Alfred the's father was King of England Æthelwulf and his mother was Osburger (Osburga). His paternal grandparents were III Ecgbert and Lady Redburga; his maternal grandparents were Earl Oslac the Dane and Judith. He had three brothers named I, Æthelbald and Æthelbert. He died in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He was buried in Old Minister of Winchester.General Notes
Alfred, called The Great (849-899), king of the West Saxons (871-899), and one of the outstanding figures of English history. Born in Wantage in southern England, Alfred was the youngest of five sons of King Ethelwulf. On the death of his brother Ethelred, Alfred became king. By early 878 the Danes had conquered much of his territory, but he then defeated them. By 886 he had captured the city of London, and soon afterward he was recognized as the king of all England. When the Danes invaded England again in 893, Alfred made his kingdom the rallying point for all Saxons, thus laying the foundation for the unification of England. Alfred was a patron of learning. He began a court school and invited British and foreign scholars, notably Welsh monk Asser and Irish-born philosopher and theologian John Scotus Erigena, to come there. Alfred's laws, the first promulgated in more than a century, were the first that made no distinction between the English and the Welsh peoples.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0706 in Wessex, England d.0718
- b.~ 0732 in Wessex, England
- b.~ 0758 in Wessex, England d.~ 0802
- b.0769 in Wessex, England d.4 FEB 838/39 in Wessex, England
- b.~ 0732 in Wessex, England
- b.~ 0552 d.0616
- b.0795 in Wessex, England
- b.~ 0635 in Heristal, Leige (Belgium) d.16 DEC 714 in Jupile on the Meuse
- b.0689 in Heristal, Leige (Belgium) d.22 OCT 741 in Quierzy, Aisne, Neustria
- b.~ 0654 in Heristal, Leige (Belgium) d. in Orp-le-Grand, Barbant
- b.0714 in Austrasia d.24 SEP 768 in St. Denis, France
- b.~ 0660 d.0713
- b.~ 0690 in Austrasia d.0724
- b.~ 0660
- b.~ 0767 in Wessex, England d.0839
- b.~ 0660 in Laon, Aisne, France d.> 0710
- b.~ 0690 in Laon, Aisne, France d.~ 0747
- b.~ 0660
- b.~ 0720 in Laon, Aisne, France d.12 JUL 783
- b.~ 0690 in Laon, Aisne, France
- b.0846 in Wantage, Berkshire d.26 OCT 899 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
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- b.~ 0439 in Ancient Saxony
- b.~ 0780 in Isle of Wright
- b.~ 0810
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Alfred the and Ealhswith (Alswitha) of the were married in a religious ceremony in 0868 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. They had three sons and three daughters, named Edward the, Edmund, King of the Saxons, Æfthryth Ethelswida, Æthelflaed and Abbess of Shaftesbury.
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Children
Edward the Elder
Edward the was born in 0871 in Wessex, England. He died in Farrington-0n-Dee, Berkshire, England.
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