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24th King of Wessex 860–865: Æthelred I c. 847 –871 25th King of Wessex 865–871: Alfred the Great c. 848–849 –899 26th King of Wessex 871 ...
The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List on folio 1r of Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 173 (also known as the Parker Chronicle). The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (also known as the West Saxon Regnal Table, West Saxon Regnal List, and Genealogical Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) is the name given in modern scholarship to a list of West-Saxon kings (which has no title in its ...
The regnal calendar ("nth year of the reign of King X", abbreviated to "n X", etc.) continues to be utilized in many official British government and legal documents of historical interest, notably parliamentary statutes prior to 1963, and prior to 1867 in the case law collected in the year books, nominative reporters, and digests, and in the ...
Earl of Wessex: King Harthacnut c. 1018 –1042 King of the English r. 1040–1042: Gunhilda of Denmark c. 1020 –1038 Queen of Germany: Svein Knutsson c. 1016 –1035 King of Norway: King Harold I Harefoot c. 1015 –1040 King of the English r. 1035/1037–1040: Edmund Ætheling c. 1015/1017 – before 1054 Son of King Edmund Ironside: Edward ...
He gave each of his Wessex counties a fictionalised name, such as with Berkshire, which is known in the novels as "North Wessex". [citation needed] In the book and television series The Last Kingdom, Wessex is the primary setting, focusing on the rule of Alfred the Great and the war against the Vikings. [47] Wessex remains a common term for the ...
The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic, the House of the West Saxons, the House of the Gewisse, the Cerdicings and the West Saxon dynasty, refers to the family, traditionally founded by Cerdic of the Gewisse, that ruled Wessex in Southern England from the early 6th century.
There is some evidence that Ælfweard of Wessex may have been king in 924, between his father Edward the Elder and his half brother Æthelstan, although he was not crowned. A 12th-century list of kings gives him a reign length of four weeks, though one manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says he died only 16 days after his father. [7]
Alfred was a 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").