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Alfred the Great
Alfredus la
King of Wessex (r. 872–901)
Monarch of England
King of Wessex
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 2
- 23 April 871 CE – 26 October 899 CE Monarch of England Number 1 in the sequence Succeeded by Edward the Elder
- 23 April 871 CE – 26 October 899 CE King of Wessex Succeeded Æthelred I · Succeeded by Edward the Elder
Family
The family of Alfred the Great
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 15
Family 15
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Æthelwulf King of Wessex -
child of (child) Osburh First wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great -
of the house House of Wessex family that initially ruled Wessex kingdom -
parent of (father) Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders Countess consort of Flanders (877-929) -
parent of (father) Æthelflæd Mercian monarch - parent of (child) Æthelgifu Anglo-Saxon abbess
- parent of (child) Æthelweard Anglo-Saxon nobleman, son of Alfred the Great
- parent of (child) Edmund Peerage person ID=106463
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parent of (father) Edward the Elder king of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924) -
sibling of Æthelbald King of Wessex -
sibling of Æthelberht King of Wessex -
sibling of Æthelred I King of Wessex (r. 865–871) - sibling of Æthelstan of Kent Sub-King of Kent, Essex, Sussex and in Surrey
- sibling of Æthelswith Queen, daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex
- married to Ealhswith Anglo Saxon royal consort
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
19 statements on this record
- 13 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 6 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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