Alfred the great

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Alfred the Great Timeline (by Martine Mussies) - A timeline of events in the life of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899 CE), king of Wessex in Britain

King Alfred the Great’s first major victory over the Viking invaders in 871

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There has been a common belief that King Alfred the Great established the Royal Navy during his reign. However, this is not true - his predecessors were creating naval fleets at least 20 years before he came to throne.

Edward the Confessor Chronicle of England (c.1307-27) f.5 BL Royal 20 A II. was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.

What little we know about Alfred the Great’s mother comes to us from the biography of Alfred written by his great friend, Bishop Asser. Asser writes only a few lines about her and doesn’t tell us m…

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Alfred the Great (r. 871-899 CE) was the king of Wessex in Britain but came to be known as King of the Anglo-Saxons after his military victories over Viking adversaries and later successful negotiations...

What made Alfred, the most famous and celebrated of all Anglo-Saxon kings, so great?

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Amid the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey is a recreation of a medieval herb garden, and in the centre of this, surveying the whole site, is a striking bronze statue of Alfred the Great, founder of the Abbey and King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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New research suggests his military achievements might have been exaggerated.

The recognition of King Alfred (r. 871-899) of Wessex as one of the greatest kings of British history is a generally recent phenomenon. Make no mistake, despite the absence of “the Great,” Alfred was still seen by his immediate peers and successors as a skilled ruler, a powerful war leader and a wise administrator […]

The UK now has a female prime minister and Elizabeth II has been queen for more than six decades, but few would associate Anglo-Saxon England with powerful women. Nearly 1,100 years ago, however, Æthelflæd, “Lady of the Mercians”, died in Tamworth – as one of the most powerful political figures in tenth-century Britain.