AETHELWULF King of Wessex

AETHELWULF King of Wessex

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  • Name AETHELWULF,  
    Title King of Wessex 
    Birth Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Relation to Me 37 GGF 
    Royalty & Nobility Between 839 and 858 
    King of Wessex 
    Name King Æthelwulf of Wessex 
    Burial 858 
    • Steyning then Old Minster, Winchester; remains may now be in Winchester Cathedral[
    Death 13 Jan 858 
    Person ID I7177  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jul 2024 

    Father EGBERT King of Wessex,   b. 771   d. 839 (Age 68 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Living 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F1728  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Living 
    Children 
     1. GREAT, King of Wessex Alfred the,   b. 849, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Oct 899, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    EALHSWITH  m. 868
     2. WESSEX, Æthelred I of,   b. 845   d. 871 (Age 26 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. AETHELBALD   d. 860  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. KING OF WESSEX, Æthelberht   d. 865  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F1727  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jul 2024 

    Family 2 FLANDERS, Countess of Flanders Judith of,   b. 843   d. Aft 870, Historical region of Flanders, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 28 years) 
    Other Partners: FLANDERS, Baldwin I of 
    Family ID F8848  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jul 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - - Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
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    Documents
    Æthelwulf - Wikipedia
    Æthelwulf - Wikipedia
    Aethelwulf
    Aethelwulf

  • Notes 
    • Regarded as historians as king who consolidated and extended the power of his dynasty, commanded respect on the continent, and dealt more effectively than most of his contemporaries with Viking attacks. He is regarded as one of the most successful West Saxon kings, who laid the foundations for the success of his son, Alfred the Great.

      On his way back from Rome, Æthelwulf stayed for several months with Charles the Bald, King of the Franks and married Charles' twelve-year-old daughter, Judith. After Æthelwulf's death Æthelbald married his stepmother, to the later horror of Asser, the biographer of his youngest brother, Alfred the Great. Asser denounced the union as being "against God's prohibition and Christian dignity, and also contrary to the practice of all pagans",[1] but the marriage does not appear to have been condemned at the time. Æthelbald and Æthelberht appear to have been on good terms: when Æthelbald died in 860 Æthelberht became king of both Wessex and Kent, and they were never again divided.


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