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In the 820s King Egbert of Wessex conquered south-east England (Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex). His reign saw the beginning of Viking attacks, but Egbert and his son Æthelwulf, who succeeded in 839, were able to resist them. [5] Æthelwulf died in 858, and he was followed by four sons in succession.
[c] The second son, Æthelbald, is first recorded as a charter witness in 841, and if, like Alfred, he began to attest when he was around six, he would have been born around 835; he was King of Wessex from 858 to 860. Æthelwulf's third son, Æthelberht, was probably born around 839 and was king from 860 to 865.
Son of Æthelwulf. 860 to 865: Æthelberht: Son of Æthelwulf. 865 to 871: Æthelred I: ... 25th King of Wessex 865–871: Alfred the Great c. 848–849 –899
Alfred was the youngest son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").
He served under the authority and overlordship of his father, King Æthelwulf of Wessex, who appointed him. [1] The late D, E and F versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describe Æthelstan as Æthelwulf's brother, but the A, B and C versions, and Æthelweard 's Chronicon , state that he was Æthelwulf's son. [ 2 ]
Ealhhere (also Alhhere, [1] fl. 839 to 853) was ealdorman of Kent. [2] In 850, Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, granted Ealhhere a large estate of forty hides at Lenham in Kent. [1] [3] The following year, he and Æthelstan, the eldest son of King Æthelwulf, defeated an invading Vikings fleet in a naval battle off Sandwich in Kent.
Æthelwulf died in 858 and was succeeded by his oldest surviving son, Æthelbald, as king of Wessex and by his next oldest son, Æthelberht, as king of Kent. Æthelbald only survived his father by two years and Æthelberht then for the first time united Wessex and Kent into a single kingdom. [15]
Æthelbald (died 860) was King of Wessex from 855 or 858 to 860. He was the second of five sons of King Æthelwulf.In 850, Æthelbald's elder brother Æthelstan defeated the Vikings in the first recorded sea battle in English history, but he is not recorded afterwards and probably died in the early 850s.