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- On the death of his father, Edward the Elder, in 924, Athelstan was elected king of Wessex and Mercia, where he had been brought up by his aunt, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians. Crowned king of the whole country at Kingston on Sept. 4, 925, he proceeded to establish boundaries and rule firmly. He annexed the Viking kingdom of York in 927.
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The West Saxon king rules York as part of a united England until his death on 27 October 939. This is the very first time that a southern king rules unquestionably north of the Humber, and the event certainly also secures the re-conquest of Lindsey at the same time.
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Wessex, also known as the Kingdom of the West Saxons, was a large and extremely influential Anglo-Saxon kingdom from 519 to 927AD. In this article, we take a look at the Kings and Queens that ruled over the kingdom for almost half a millennium.
Ine (reigned 688–726), the first West Saxon king to issue a code of laws, placed a see at Sherborne (Dorset) for the western areas. Mercian dominance over Wessex, which included direct control of parts of Berkshire and Wiltshire, ended with the accession of Egbert (reigned 802–839).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Alfred’s Wessex Kingdom
- Winchester: England’s First Capital
- The Wessex of Thomas Hardy Country
- In The Neighborhood
Onto the throne of Wessex came Alfred. Following brief reigns by each of his three elder brothers, the youngest son of King Aethelwulf became King Alfred at the tender age of 22. Over the next years, King Alfred led Saxon defense against the Danes, emerging as the unquestioned first among Saxon kings and greatly enlarging Wessex’s territorial contr...
Centrally located in the network of burghal towns, Winchester was King Alfred’s de facto capital and court and site of the royal mint. An enormous bronze statue of King Alfred, sword held aloft, greets visitors to Winchester’s Broadway via what would have been its old Eastern Gate. It is certainly easier to trace the imprint of Norman kings and the...
King Alfred the Great is certainly one of the most famous names in English history, and he was voted 14th in a BBC poll of the greatest Brits. After 1,100 years off the scene and without landmarks, books, battlefields, or buildings to mark his memory, however, Alfred’s Wessex faded into the shadows of history. As Wessex has been understood for more...
Get steeped in the countryside of Hardy’s Wessex novels on a driving excursion from Dorchester. Head north on the A352 about 20 miles through Cerne Abbas to beautiful Sherborne. Visits to Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne Old Castle and Sherborne Castle (built by Sir Walter Raleigh) are optional. Then turn south through Blackmoor Vale (the “Valley of the ...
Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrǣd [ˈæɫvˌræːd]; 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.
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.
It has been described as ‘one of the most elusive epochs in York’s history’. Read more. 627 A.D. Anglo-Saxon King Baptised in York. Read More This is the year that York reappears in the written record. When Edwin of Deira, the king of Northumbria, converted to Christianity he chose York for his baptism. Read more
