Ælfred, King of Wessex - Greybeard's Ghosts

Family

Claim	Detail	Evidence
Father	Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (~799-858) [S756:1] [S936]	research
Mother	Osburh (e809-~855) [S756:1] [S936]	research
Spouse	Ealhswith (~848-905)
Child +	Eadweard, King of Wessex & Mercia (~872-924) [S756:1] [S936]	research
Child +	Ælfthryth of Wessex (~877-929) [S756] [S936]	research

Attributes

Claim	Detail	Evidence
Gender	Male
Name	Alfred , King of England [S756:1]	research
Name	Alfred , King of Wessex [S936]	research
Name	Ælfred `the Great` , King of the West Saxons [S1291]	research
Name	Ælfred , King of Wessex Nickname: Alfred the Great	no source
Father	Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (~799-858) [S756:1] [S936]	research
Mother	Osburh (e809-~855) [S756:1] [S936]	research

Timeline

Claim	Date	Detail	Age	Evidence
Birth	849	Wantage, Berkshire, England [S756:1] [S936]		research
Marriage	868	Ealhswith (~848-905) [S756:1] [S936] [S3186]		research
Flourished	871	Winchester, Hampshire, England [S756:1] crowned King	23y	research
Title	871	King of Wessex [S936] [S1291] succeeded his brother Æthelred I		research
Death	Oct 26, 899	[S756:1] [S936]		research

Sources

Index	Title
[S756]	Weis, Frederick Lewis, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came To New England before 1700, 7th Ed." (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1999).
[S936]	Cawley, Charles, "Foundation of Medieval Genealogy (Medieval Lands - England, Anglo Saxon Kings)" (2006-7 (v1.1 Updated 25 February 2007)).
[S1291]	Baldwin, Stewart, "The Henry Project - Ælfred the Great" (June 25, 2010) (https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/data/aelfr000.htm).
[S3186]	Cawley, Charles, "Foundation of Medieval Genealogy (Medieval Lands - England: Anglo Saxon Nobility)".

Note

Ælfred appears in a charter of his father dated 855 (but with an indiction for 853) ["Ego Elfred fili regis consensi & subscripsi" Cart. Sax. 2: 62 (#467)]

Asser, who is the only source for the statement that Ælfred was born at Wantage, states that he was born in 849 ["Anno Dominicae Incarnationis DCCCXLIX natus est Ælfred, Angul-Saxonum rex, in villa regia, quae dicitur Uuanating, in illa paga, quae nominatur Berrocscire ..." Asser, c. 1 (p. 1), see also pp. 154-5]. As noted above, the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List states that Ælfred was 23 years old when he became king in 871.