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Hace 1 día · Æthelweard maintains the Chronicle’s focus on Alfred’s military successes for the length of his reign; however, on Alfred’s death he provides a eulogy that lauds the king’s good governance and learning and the quality of his text translations. 28 Here Æthelweard adds assessments of the king’s learning and patronage akin to those of Asser to his own experiences of Alfredian texts ...
Hace 2 días · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
Hace 4 días · Ælfric appears to have been succeeded by Æthelweard, who in turn was succeeded by Cineweard, Beorhtelm, and Beorhtwold. Of the last it is recorded that he alienated the lands of the monastery for small sums. It was about this time that the Danes visited Malmesbury.
Hace 2 días · Siefred is probably identical with Sigeferth piraticus de Northymbriorum recorded in Æthelweard's chronicle as ravaging the coasts in 895. The increasing commercial prosperity of the city indicated by these coinages must have advanced steadily throughout the unsettled reigns of the Danish and Norse kings.
Hace 3 días · Aethelflaed was born around 870 the eldest daughter of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith of Mercia. She married Aethelred of Mercia around 885 as part of a treaty of mutual support between Mercia and Wessex against the Vikings. They had one child, Aelfwyn who was born around 888. After Aethelred became ill in the early 10th century ...
Hace 2 días · Æthelweard d. 920 or 922 Second Son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith: Ælfthryth of Wessex Countess of Flanders 877–929 Second Daughter of King Alfred the Great and Queen Ealhswith: Baldwin II Second Margrave of Flanders c. 865 –918: Ælfwynn 'Second Lady of the Mercians' b. c. 888: King Æthelstan c. 893/895 –939 King ...
Hace 4 días · Answer: horn lanterns. Alfred wanted to divide his time equally, so he measured it with slow-burning candles. When he found weather was affecting the burning speed, he made horn lanterns so that they would all burn equally fast. 6. Before his great victory, Alfred was forced into hiding.
