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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 ]
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)
Smith was born in London. He began dealing in art as a framemaker, specializing in wood-carving and gilding. [ 1 ] He became an art dealer and art consultant known for his "reasoned catalog" of painters that he wrote in 8 volumes and sold by subscription to his art clients during the years 1829 to 1837, and to which he added a 9th volume as a ...
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 ...
John Raphael Smith (25 May 1751 – 2 March 1812) was a British painter and mezzotinter. He was the son of Thomas Smith of Derby , the landscape painter , and father of John Rubens Smith , a painter who emigrated to the United States .
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]
Osburh's existence is known only from Asser's Life of King Alfred.She is not named as witness to any charters, nor is her death reported in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.So far as is known, she was the mother of all Æthelwulf's children, his five sons Æthelstan, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred and Alfred, and his daughter Æthelswith, wife of King Burgred of Mercia.