Eadflæd Wessex

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• Initiatory (LDS): COMPLETED
• FamilySearch ID: MT39-VLW

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• FamilySearch ID: LCDM-N61
• Initiatory (LDS): 11 Apr 1924

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Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America (973 D2ah) Vol. 2 Kin g o f the Angles and Saxons. As a youth, Edward distinguished himself i n hi s father's wars against the Danes. He was as good a soldier as his f ather , but not as good a scholar. His reign is markedby the widening o f his ki ngdom and the reduction of other princes to a condition of depen dence. Ed ward still had to do much, despite his father's previous effort s, to kee p the shores of England free from invasion. He erected a long l ine of for tresses along the English shores to ward off the Danes. He ext ended the S axon division of towns into shires in nearly all of England . In every wa y he advanced the dinity of the Kingship and he did away wi th the old cus tom of clanchieftains. Thus he succeeded in creating a nat ion out of Engl and, an accomplishment which his predecessors had vainl y attempted. Edwar d also did much for the church by establishing some mo nasteries and endow ing others. Because his reign was one marked with suc cess, Edward has bee n called "The Unconquered King".

Edward married Ælfflæd in 899. Ælfflæd was born about 879; died in 919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZF7-33W
• Initiatory (LDS): 1 Feb 1924

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• FamilySearch ID: L8MB-ZF7
• Initiatory (LDS): 28 May 1998, BOISE

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King of the West Saxons (871-99), and one of the outstanding figures o f E nglish History. Born in Wantage in Southern England, Alfred was the y oung est of five sons of King Ethelwulf. On the death of his brother Ethe lred , Alfred became king, coming to the throne during a Danish invasion . Alth ough he succeeded in making peace with the Danes, they resumed the ir mara uding expeditions five years later, and by early 878 they were su ccessfu l almost everywhere. About Easter of 878, however, Alfred establi shed him self at Athelney and began assembling an army. In the middle o f that yea r he defeated the Danes and captured their stronghold, probabl y at presen t-day Edington. For the next 14 years Alfred was able to devo te himself t o the internal affairs of his kingdom. By 886 he had capture d the city o f London, and soon afterward he was recognized as the king o f all England . In 893 the Danes invaded England again, and the followin g four years we re marked by warfare; eventually, the Danes were forced t o withdraw fro m Alfred's domain. The only ruler to resist Danish invasio ns successfully , Alfred made his kingdom the rallying point for all Saxo ns, thus layin g the foundation for the unification of England. Alfred wa s a patron of l earning and did much for the education of his people. H e established a co urt-school and invited British and foreign scholars, n otably the Welsh mo nk Asser and the Irish-born philosopher and theologia n John Scotus Erigen a, to come there. Alfred translated such works as th e Consolation of Phil osophy by the Roman statesman and philosopher Boeth ius, The History of th e World by the Spanish priest Paulus Orosius (fl.5 th Cent), and Passtora l Care by Pope Gregory I. Alfred's laws, the firs t promulgated in more th an a century, were the first that made no distin ction between the Englis h and the Welsh peoples. He wore himself out i n the service of his people , the oft-quoted words he added to one of hi s book translations: "MY WIS H WAS TO LIVE WORTHI LY AS LONG AS I LIVE, A ND AFTER MY LIFE TO LEAVE THE M THAT SHOULD COME A FTER, MY MEMORY of GOO D WORKS."; a fitting epitaph t o this noble King.

Ælfrǣd married Ealhswith in 868. Ealhswith (daughter of Æthelred Mucil, Ealdorman of the Gaini and Eadburh Fadburn) was born about 852 in Mercia; died on 5 Dec 905 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; was buried in New Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L83F-5Z6
• Initiatory (LDS): 14 May 1925

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Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert Fr e derick Pfafman, p E-36.

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• FamilySearch ID: L8WB-NGX
• Initiatory (LDS): 15 Nov 1927, SLAKE

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Wessex Monarch. Born the son of Egberht, King of Wessex and Rudberga. Al t ernate name spelling is Aethelwulf. He served as Sub-king of Kent, Esse x , Sussex and Surrey between 825 and 828. About 830 he married Osburg a o f Hampshire with whom he had at least seven children. He succeeded t o th e title of King of Wessex in February 839 upon the death of his fath er. H e continued wars against invading Danes until 851 when an allianc e with M ercia secured a victory over the Danish at Aclea. He betrothed h is daught er to King Burgred of Mercia in 853 and in 855 made a pilgrimag e to Rome . He donated gold chalices and silver candelabras to the clerg y at St. Pe ter's Basilica. Upon his return in 856 he married for a secon d time to Ju dith, daughter of Charles I of France and changed the statu s of English Q ueens. Before his reign, queens in England did not hold a n official title , however, due to his new wife's status as a descenden t of Charlemagne sh e was officially made his queen. Following his retur n to England, his old est surviving son, Ethelbald conspired to oppose Et helwulf's resumption o f his throne, the pair, however, reached an unders tanding in which Ethelb ald was given western Wessex, while Ethelwulf kep t central and eastern We ssex. He died two years later and was succeede d by Ethelbald. During th e English civil war, Parliamentarian soldiers v iolated his grave and smas hed the windows of the cathedral with the bone s from the royal graves. Wi th the restoration of the monarchy, the scatt ered bones were gathered u p and placed in the present mortuary chests.

Æthelwulf married Osburh, Queen of Wessex about 837. Osburh (daughter of Oslac Whitgarsson, Grand Butler of England, King's Royal Cup Bearer, The Thane of Isle of Wight and Judith) was born about 810 in Wessex; died about 855 in Wessex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LD98-69W
• Initiatory (LDS): 20 May 1937

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Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America (973 D2ah) Vol. 2

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• FamilySearch ID: M8X5-64Z
• Initiatory (LDS): 6 Dec 1927, SLAKE

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Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert Fr e derick Pfafman, p E-35.

Æthelred married Eadburh Fadburn in 851 in Mercia. Eadburh (daughter of Wigmund Mercia and Ælfflæd) was born about 830 in Mercia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LH2D-YSM

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Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert Fr e derick Pfafman, p E-35.