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The manuscript is thought to have been made at Glastonbury in the 930s during the reign of King Æthelstan [3] (whose family traced their own royal descent back to Cerdic via a brother of King Ine), but the material may well date back to the earliest reconstructable version of the collection, c. 796; and possibly still further back, to 725 ...
April 23 – Alfred succeeds as king of Wessex after Æthelred's death. He makes peace with the Danes, and pays them Danegeld , each ruling parts of England . May – Battle of Wilton : Alfred the Great is defeated by the Danes at Wilton (along the southern side of the River Wylye ), leaving him in retreat for several years.
1 October – King Æthelwulf marries as his second wife the teenage Judith of Flanders at Verberie and she is crowned queen of Wessex. He returns to Wessex but Æthelbald retains rule of part of the kingdom. 858. 13 January – Æthelbald succeeds his father Æthelwulf as King of Wessex and marries his father's widow. 860
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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]
The manuscript is thought to have been made at Glastonbury in the 930s during the reign of King Æthelstan [3] (whose family traced their own royal descent back to Cerdic via a brother of King Ine), but the material may well date back to the earliest reconstructable version of the collection, c. 796; and possibly still further back, to 725 ...
The Earl and Countess of Wessex attend a Platinum Jubilee celebration in Belfast, as members of the Royal Family visit the nations of the UK to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee ...
However, a list of West-Saxon kings in the 12th-century Textus Roffensis [1] mentions him as his father's successor, with a reign of four weeks. [2] He is also described as king in the New Minster Liber Vitae , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] an 11th-century source based in part on earlier material.