 Abt 875 - 924 (49 years) Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Edward Wessex |
| Suffix |
I, King of England |
| Nickname |
The Elder |
| Birth |
Abt 875 |
Wantage, Berkshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
17 Jul 924 |
Farndon, Cheshire, England |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
11 Apr 1924 |
| FamilySearch ID |
LCDM-N61 |
| Burial |
New Winchester, Hampshire, England |
| Headstones |
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| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I13292 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Ælfrǣd Wessex, King of the Anglo-Saxons, b. 849, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 26 Oct 899, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 50 years) |
| Mother |
Ealhswith, b. Abt 852, Mercia d. 5 Dec 905, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 53 years) |
| Marriage |
868 |
| Family ID |
F6942 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Ecgwynn, b. Abt 890 d. 901 (Age 11 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 893 |
England |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F6919 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
| Family 2 |
Eadgifu, b. Abt 903, Kent, England d. 966 (Age 63 years) |
| Marriage |
919 |
England |
| Children |
| | 1. Edburh Wessex, b. Abt 918, Sussex, England d. 15 Jun 960 (Age 42 years) |
| + | 2. Eadgyth Wessex, b. Abt 919, England d. 15 Jul 930, England (Age 11 years) |
| | 3. Eadred Wessex, King of England, b. 923, Sussex, England d. 23 Nov 955, Frome, Somersetshire, England (Age 32 years) |
| | 4. Eadgifu Wessex, b. 927, England |
| + | 5. Edmund Wessex, King of England, b. 939, England d. 26 May 946, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England (Age 7 years) |
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| Family ID |
F6940 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
| Family 3 |
Ælfflæd, b. Abt 879 d. 919 (Age 40 years) |
| Marriage |
899 |
| Children |
| | 1. Ælfweard, King of Wessex, b. 902, England d. 2 Aug 924, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 22 years) |
| + | 2. Eadgifu Wessex, Queen of West Francia, b. 902, England d. Aft 955 (Age > 54 years) |
| | 3. Edwin Wessex, b. 903, England d. 933, At Sea, Atlantic Ocean (Age 30 years) |
| | 4. Eadflæd Wessex, b. Abt 903, England d. 28 Oct, England |
| | 5. Æthelhild Wessex, b. 906, England |
| > | 6. Eadhild Wessex, b. 908, England d. 937 (Age 29 years) |
| | 7. Ælfgifu Wessex, b. Abt 912, England d. 944, England (Age 32 years) |
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| Family ID |
F6941 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Notes |
- 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".
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