 Abt 806 - 858 (52 years) Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Æthelwulf Wessex |
| Suffix |
King of Wessex |
| Birth |
Abt 806 |
Wessex  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 Jan 858 |
Steyning, Wessex |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
15 Nov 1927 |
SLAKE |
| FamilySearch ID |
L8WB-NGX |
| Burial |
Church of St. Andrew, Steyning, Wessex |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I13564 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Family 1 |
Judith Karling, b. 843, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, République française d. Aft 870 (Age > 28 years) |
| Marriage |
1 Oct 856 |
England |
| Family ID |
F7038 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
| Family 2 |
Osburh, Queen of Wessex, b. Abt 810, Wessex d. Abt 855, Wessex (Age 45 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 837 |
| Children |
| | 1. Æthelstan Wessex, b. Abt 838, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 852 (Age 14 years) |
| > | 2. Æthelswith Wessex, Queen of Mercia, b. Abt 846, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 888 (Age 42 years) |
| > | 3. Æthelbald Wessex, King of Wessex, b. Abt 840, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 20 Dec 860 (Age 20 years) |
| | 4. Æthelbert Wessex, King of Wessex, b. Abt 842, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 865 (Age 23 years) |
| | 5. Æthelred Wessex, King of Wessex, b. 848, England d. 23 Apr 871 (Age 23 years) |
| + | 6. Ælfrǣd "Alfred the Great" Wessex, King of the Anglo-Saxons, b. 849, Wantage, Berkshire, England d. 26 Oct 899, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 50 years) |
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| Family ID |
F7040 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Notes |
- 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.
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