Alfred the Great - Death

Alfred (849? – 26 October 899) or Ælfred was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is famous for his defence of the kingdom against the Danes (Vikings), becoming as a result the only English monarch to be awarded the epithet "the Great" by his people. Alfred was the first King of Wessex to style himself "King of England". Details of his life are known as a result of a work by the Welsh scholar, Asser. A learned man, Alfred encouraged education and improved the kingdom's law system (Doom b ...

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The history of the church under Alfred is most obscure. The Danish inroads had told heavily upon it; the monasteries had been special points of attack, and though Alfred founded two or three monasteries and imported foreign monks, there was no general revival of monasticism under him. To the ruin of learning and education wrought by the Danes, and the practical extinction of the knowledge of Latin even among the clergy, the preface to Alfred's translation into Old English of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care bears eloquent witness. ...

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During the short reigns of his two eldest brothers, Ethelbald and Ethelbert, nothing is heard of Alfred. But with the accession of the third brother, Ethelred, in 866 the public life of Alfred began, and he began his great work of delivering England from the Danes. It is in this reign that Asser applies to Alfred the unique title of secundarius, which seems to show a position akin to that of the Celtic tanist, a recognized successor, closely associated with the reigning prince. It is likely that this arrangement was sanctioned ...

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Alfred the Great, Alfred the Great - Childhood, Alfred the Great - Public life, Alfred the Great - Accession, Alfred the Great - Reorganization, Alfred the Great - Foreign relations, Alfred the Great - Christianity literature and music, Alfred the Great - Death, Alfred the Great - Appearances in Fiction

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During the short reigns of his two eldest brothers, Ethelbald and Ethelbert, nothing is heard of Alfred. But with the accession of the third brother, Ethelred, in 866 the public life of Alfred began, and he began his great work of delivering England from the Danes. It is in this reign that Asser applies to Alfred the unique title of secundarius, which seems to show a position akin to that of the Celtic tanist, a recognized successor, closely associated with the reigning prince. It is likely that this arrangement was sanctioned ...

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Alfred the Great, Alfred the Great - Childhood, Alfred the Great - Public life, Alfred the Great - Accession, Alfred the Great - Reorganization, Alfred the Great - Foreign relations, Alfred the Great - Christianity and His Writings, Alfred the Great - Death, Alfred the Great - Appearance in Culture

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The history of the church under Alfred is most obscure. The Danish inroads had told heavily upon it; the monasteries had been special points of attack, and though Alfred founded two or three monasteries and imported foreign monks, there was no general revival of monasticism under him. To the ruin of learning and education wrought by the Danes, and the practical extinction of the knowledge of Latin even among the clergy, the preface to Alfred's translation into Old English of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care bears eloquent witness. ...

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Alfred the Great, Alfred the Great - Childhood, Alfred the Great - Public life, Alfred the Great - Accession, Alfred the Great - Reorganization, Alfred the Great - Foreign relations, Alfred the Great - Christianity literature and music, Alfred the Great - Death, Alfred the Great - Appearances in Fiction

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Alfred was born sometime between 847 and AD 849 at Wantage in Berkshire, the fourth son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex (Æþelwulf), most likely by his first wife, Osburh. He succeeded his brother, Ethelred I (Æþelræd I), as King of Wessex and Mercia in 871. He seems to have been a child of singular attractiveness and promise, and tales of his boyhood were remembered. At five years old, in 853, he is said to have been sent to Rome, where he was confirmed by Pope Leo IV, who is also said to have "anointed him as king." Later writers to ...

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Alfred the Great, Alfred the Great - Childhood, Alfred the Great - Public life, Alfred the Great - Accession, Alfred the Great - Reorganization, Alfred the Great - Foreign relations, Alfred the Great - Christianity literature and music, Alfred the Great - Death, Alfred the Great - Appearances in Fiction

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In honour of Alfred, the University of Liverpool now has a King Alfred Chair of English Literature. Thomas Augustine Arne's Masque of Alfred (known for "Rule Britannia") was a masque about Alfred the Great (first public performance: 1745). G K Chesterton's poetical epic The Ballad of the White Horse describes Alfred uniting the fragmented Kingdoms of Britain to chase the northern invaders away from the island. Like Shakespeare's Henry V, it deals with the theme of a divinely oriented leader waging phy ...

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Alfred the Great, Alfred the Great - Childhood, Alfred the Great - Public life, Alfred the Great - Accession, Alfred the Great - Reorganization, Alfred the Great - Foreign relations, Alfred the Great - Christianity and His Writings, Alfred the Great - Death, Alfred the Great - Appearance in Culture

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Alfred was born sometime between 847 and AD 849 at Wantage in Berkshire, the fourth son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex (Æþelwulf), most likely by his first wife, Osburh. He succeeded his brother, Ethelred I (Æþelræd I), as King of Wessex and Mercia in 871. He seems to have been a child of singular attractiveness and promise, and tales of his boyhood were remembered. At five years old, in 853, he is said to have been sent to Rome, where he was confirmed by Pope Leo IV, who is also said to have "anointed him as king." Later writers to ...

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Alfred the Great, Alfred the Great - Childhood, Alfred the Great - Public life, Alfred the Great - Accession, Alfred the Great - Reorganization, Alfred the Great - Foreign relations, Alfred the Great - Christianity and His Writings, Alfred the Great - Death, Alfred the Great - Appearance in Culture

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