AETHELWULF King of Wessex
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Name AETHELWULF, Title King of Wessex Birth Oxfordshire, England 
Gender Male Relation to Me 37 GGF Royalty & Nobility Between 839 and 858 King of Wessex Name King Æthelwulf of Wessex Burial 858 - Steyning then Old Minster, Winchester; remains may now be in Winchester Cathedral[
Death 13 Jan 858 Person ID I7177 My Genealogy Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father EGBERT King of Wessex, b. 771 d. 839 (Age 68 years) Relationship natural Mother Living Relationship natural Family ID F1728 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Living Children + 1. GREAT, King of Wessex Alfred the, b. 849, Oxfordshire, England d. 26 Oct 899, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 50 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. WESSEX, Æthelred I of, b. 845 d. 871 (Age 26 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. AETHELBALD d. 860 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 4. KING OF WESSEX, Æthelberht d. 865 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F1727 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Family 2 FLANDERS, Countess of Flanders Judith of, b. 843 d. Aft 870, Historical region of Flanders, Belgium (Age > 28 years) Family ID F8848 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - - Oxfordshire, England 
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Documents 
Æthelwulf - Wikipedia Aethelwulf
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Notes - Regarded as historians as king who consolidated and extended the power of his dynasty, commanded respect on the continent, and dealt more effectively than most of his contemporaries with Viking attacks. He is regarded as one of the most successful West Saxon kings, who laid the foundations for the success of his son, Alfred the Great.
On his way back from Rome, Æthelwulf stayed for several months with Charles the Bald, King of the Franks and married Charles' twelve-year-old daughter, Judith. After Æthelwulf's death Æthelbald married his stepmother, to the later horror of Asser, the biographer of his youngest brother, Alfred the Great. Asser denounced the union as being "against God's prohibition and Christian dignity, and also contrary to the practice of all pagans",[1] but the marriage does not appear to have been condemned at the time. Æthelbald and Æthelberht appear to have been on good terms: when Æthelbald died in 860 Æthelberht became king of both Wessex and Kent, and they were never again divided.
- Regarded as historians as king who consolidated and extended the power of his dynasty, commanded respect on the continent, and dealt more effectively than most of his contemporaries with Viking attacks. He is regarded as one of the most successful West Saxon kings, who laid the foundations for the success of his son, Alfred the Great.