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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").
The poem was ostensibly about King Alfred the Great, but like Blackmore's earlier Arthurian epics, it was also a means to express his partisan view of the political events of his time. 1801 Alfred: Henry James Pye: epic poem [12] 1801 Alfred: Joseph Cottle: epic poem [13] 1808–1834 King Alfred: John Fitchett (poet)
However, Alfred does not mention his three daughters by name or his youngest son, with Edward, his eldest son, being the only child named. Asser was a Welsh monk who lived during the same time as Alfred, and he learned and taught at St. David’s in Wales. [ 6 ]
John Alfred Parsons Millet, (Francis Davis Millet's son, named after John Singer Sargent and Alfred Parsons) 1892: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 92 cm × 61 cm 36 + 1 ⁄ 4 in × 24 + 1 ⁄ 8 in: The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego [16] Lady Agnew of Lochnaw: 1892: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 127 cm × 101 cm 50 in × 40 in: National Gallery of ...
Martin was born in July 1789, in a one-room cottage, [2] at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the fourth son of Fenwick Martin, a one-time fencing master. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a dispute over wages the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed instead under Boniface Musso, an Italian ...
Æthelflæd was born around 870, the oldest child of King Alfred the Great and his Mercian wife, Ealhswith, who was a daughter of Æthelred Mucel, ealdorman of the Gaini, one of the tribes of Mercia. [b] Ealhswith's mother, Eadburh, was a member of the Mercian royal house, probably a descendant of King Coenwulf (796–821). [15]
Samson Wertheimer became a leading art dealer in London, and Asher continued the business from premises on Bond Street after his father's death. Asher Wertheimer married in 1873. His wife Flora (1846–1922) was the daughter of another London art dealer. Of their twelve children, four sons and eight daughters, two daughters died in infancy.
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Марія Александровна, romanized: Mariya Aleksandrovna; 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1853 – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Alfred, Duke of Saxe ...