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	Alfred the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 born sometime between AD 847 and 849 at Wantage in the present-day ceremonial county of Oxfordshire (though historically speaking in the traditional county of Berkshire).
		That Alfred sent alms to Irish as well as to European monasteries may be taken on Asser's authority; the visit of the three pilgrim "Scots" (i.e., Irish) to Alfred in 891 is undoubtedly authentic; the story that he himself in his childhood was sent to Ireland to be healed by St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_the_Great (3853 words)

	ALFRED THE GREAT - LoveToKnow Article on ALFRED THE GREAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alfred had been on his way to relieve his son at Thorney when he heard that the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes were besieging Exeter and an unnamed fort on the coast of North Devon.
		After the final dispersal of the Danish invaders Alfred turned his attention to the increase of the navy, and ships were built according to the king's own designs, partly to repress the ravages of the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes on the coasts of Wessex, partly to prevent the landing of fresh hordes.
		Alfred's care for the administration of justice is testified both by history and legend; and the title " protector of the poor " was his by unquestioned right.
	36.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AL/ALFRED_THE_GREAT.htm (1354 words)

	Alfred the Great
		Alfred was the fifth son of Ethelwulf, or Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, and Osburh, his queen, of the royal house of the Jutes of Wight.
		It is in connection with this struggle that many of the legends of Alfred have sprung up and been perpetuated — the story of the burnt cakes, the account of his visit to the Danish camp in the guise of a harper, and many others.
		Alfred made Wessex a rallying point for all the Saxons and by freeing the country of the invaders unwittingly unified England and prepared the way for the eventual supremacy of his successors.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/alfred_the_great.html (912 words)

	Alfred the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alfred was born some time between 847 and 849 AD at Wantage in Berkshire (alterations to county borders in 1974 mean that Wantage is now part Oxfordshire) the fourth son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex (or Aethelwulf) most likely by his wife Osburh.
		Alfred had been on his way to his son at Thorney when he heard the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes were Exeter and an unnamed stronghold on the Devon shore.
		In this case the translation was by Alfred's great friend Werferth Bishop of Worcester the king merely furnishing a foreword.
	www.freeglossary.com /Alfred_the_Great (3003 words)

	Alfred. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Alfred captured (886) London and concluded another treaty with Guthrum that marked off the Danelaw E and N of the Thames, Lea, and Ouse rivers, and Watling Street, leaving the south and west of England to Alfred.
		Alfred’s greatest achievements, however, were the revival of learning and the establishment of Old English literary prose.
		Alfred liberally interpolated his own thoughts into his writings, and the Orosius is particularly interesting for the addition of accounts of voyages made by the Norse explorers Ohthere and Wulfstan.
	www.bartleby.com /65/al/Alfred.html (876 words)

	BBC - History - King Alfred (849 - 899)
		Known as King Alfred (Aelfred) the Great, or King of Wessex, he became ruler of the West Saxons after he and his brother defeated the Danes in the Battle of Ashdown in Berkshire - the later death of his brother Ethelred left Alfred as successor in 871.
		Alfred understood the value of diplomacy and formed amicable relations with Mercia and Wales; Welsh rulers sought his support and even provided troops for his army in 893.
		Alfred is still considered quintessential as a ruler of the Middle Ages.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/alfred_king.shtml (473 words)

	Cross Of StGeorge
		Alfred the Great was as the title suggests a great man but in more ways that one.
		Alfred begins construction of a great wall of burhs to act as local forts; he develops the system which gives him both a standing army and a local defence.
		King Alfred the Great died on October 26, 899, aged 50, at Chelsea, planning the rebuilding of London, and was buried in the Old Minister at Winchester, the burial place of the West Saxon royal family.
	crossofstgeorge.net /alfred.php (781 words)

	Alfred The Great
		In 853 when Alfred was four years old, he was sent by his father to Rome to stay with Pope Leo IV who treated him like a son he could never have.
		Unfortunately the bread started to burn, but Alfred was so engrossed in what he was doing, he let them burn, much to the anger of the wife, who castigated him for his stupidity and thoughtlessness, never knowing he was the king.
		What Alfred did in Wessex after the battle of Edington was to organise in a methodical way so that everybody had a role and felt secure.
	www.battle1066.com /alfred.shtml (1295 words)

	Royalty.nu - Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alfred's daughter Elfreda was an ancestor of William the Conqueror's wife, Matilda of Flanders.
		Alfred the Great: War, Kingship, and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Philip Abels.
		Great Kings of England: King Alfred the Great is a documentary.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Alfred.html (838 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon kings > Alfred 'The Great'
		Alfred himself had married Eahlswith, a Mercian noblewoman, and another daughter, Aelfthryth, to the Count of Flanders, a strong naval power at a time when the Vikings were settling in eastern England.
		Alfred was patron of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (which was copied and supplemented up to 1154), a patriotic history of the English from the Wessex viewpoint designed to inspire its readers and celebrate Alfred and his monarchy.
		Alfred died in 899, aged 50, and was buried in Winchester, the burial place of the West Saxon royal family.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page25.asp (1457 words)

	King Alfred the Great 849AD - 899AD - VillageNet History
		King Alfred the Great was born in 849 at Wantage in Berkshire, youngest of five sons and one daughter of King Aethelwulf.
		Alfred was asked to look after the bread, but the bread started to burn, Alfred was concentrating on making the arrows, or probably planning what to do next and the bread burnt.
		On the 26 October 899 at the age of 50 Alfred died, and was buried in the Old Minster at Winchester ending an age of Saxon precedence.
	www.villagenet.co.uk /history/0849-alfredthegreat.html (736 words)

	ALFRED THE GREAT* (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		PAUL S., Alfred the Great was not only the greatest earthly king ever to rule over a nation, but he was also, apart from Jesus and the perfect Adam, one of the most noble men that ever lived.
		This brings to mind that great, early missionary to the Goths, the Greek, Ulfilas (E 10: 28, 29; E 12: 132) who, 500 years before Osburga’s days, had converted her pagan ancestors to Christ and, living among them (then in the Danube area), translated the Bible into the Gothic language.
		So it was that, through Alfred and this great uplift of the human spirit, the holy spirit in truth and love, pictured in the dove, found a place to rest.
	www.epiphanystudies.co.uk /History/alfred.htm (5871 words)

	Alfred the Great
		Alfred, England's darling for more than a thousand years, had "The Great" bestowed upon him in medieval times by an English nation proud of their ancestor.
		Alfred, when he became King of the West Saxons, was monarch of Wessex, a wedge of southern England between the Thames Valley and the English Channel.
		Alfred's love of hunting was renowned and his skill as a warrior is testified in his successes against the Danes.
	www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blalfredthegreat (908 words)

	Shaftesbury Town - Alfred the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alfred the Great is important to Shaftesbury because of the proximity of a number of major events in his life and him founding the abbey which gave the town its wealth and power between the tenth and seventeenth century’s.
		Alfred was king of the Wessex from 871 to 899.
		Alfred is famous for his defense of the kingdom against the Vikings, such was the love of Alfred by his people during his reign that he became the first and only English monarch to be titled "the Great".
	www.shaftesburytown.co.uk /history/history/alfred_the_great.html (3409 words)

	Alfred the Great and Anglo-Saxon England
		The Danelaw, victory at Eddington and Wedmore, and the legacy of Alfred the Great.
		At first the fight went badly for Alfred; some of his allies found it more expedient to cooperate with the Danes, and in 877 he was pushed back to a small corner of the marshes around Athelney, in Somerset.
		The story goes that Alfred was so low in his fortunes that he was forced to travel anonymously and seek lodging in a peasant woman's hut.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/Alfred_the_Great.htm (627 words)

	Alfred the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alfred was a remarkable man. A brave and hardened warrior, he had grown up fighting the Danes at the side of his father and brothers who had been kings before him.
		A great leader and clever organiser, he was also - thanks to his mother - able to read in an age when few people could.
		In January 878 Guthrum's Danish army had broken a treaty, and defeated Alfred in a surprise attack at Chippenham while the Saxons celebrated the end of the twelve days of Christmas.
	www.request.org.uk /main/history/saxon/alfred01.htm (154 words)

	Alfred the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alfred began his campaigns against the Danes even before he had gained the throne.
		Alfred designated a piece of land to be the Danelaw, an area where Danes and Saxons (the English) could live equally and at peace with each other.
		Alfred died in 899 at the age of fifty.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2alfred.htm (560 words)

	Alfred the Great
		ALFRED THE GREAT (849-899) was king of the West Saxons in southwestern England.
		As a boy, Alfred twice went to Rome, where the pope acknowledged the status of the royal house of Wessex.
		Alfred became king in 871 at the death of his brother Ethelred.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /alfredgreat.htm (585 words)

	Alfred the Great
		In the 800's the cycle partly repeated itself, as the Christian Anglo-Saxons were invaded by the Danes, pagan raiders, who rapidly conquered the northeast portion of England.
		Alfred was born in 849 at Wantage, Berkshire, youngest of five sons of King Aethelwulf.
		In his later years, having secured a large degree of military security for his people, Alfred devoted his energies to repairing the damage that war had done to the cultural life of his people.
	www.satucket.com /lectionary/Alfred.htm (535 words)

	Alfred the Great - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		Winchester was the capital of Alfred's ancestral kingdom of Wessex.
		Alfred had four elder brothers and in a more peaceful time, might never have become king.
		Alfred wanted to divide his time equally, so he measured it with slow-burning candles.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/People/Alfred-the-Great-8721.html (632 words)

	Alfred 'The Great', England (0848 - 26 Oct 0901)
		Alfred 'The Great', King Of England was king of the West Saxons in England.
		Alfred became king in 871, after the death of his fourth brother.
		Alfred built forts at strategic points and stationed a fleet of ships along the coast to protect his kingdom and guard against invasion.
	www.smokykin.com /ged/f002/f53/a0025306.htm (440 words)

	Alfred The Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alfred was forced to retire to the stronghold of Athelney whence he finally emerged to win the victory of Edington, Wilts.
		By the peace of Wedmorein 878 the Danish leader Guthrum agreed to withdraw from Wessex and from Mercia W. of Watling Street.
		In the peace that followed, Alfred extended and consolidated the shire system of local government, and supervised finance, the administrative of justice, and the codification of the law.
	pages.zdnet.com /kingalfred/id3.html (217 words)

	Amazon.com: Alfred the Great : War, Culture and Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England (The Medieval World): Books: Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alfred was a great warrior king, and an effective and inventive ruler.
		One of the great virtues of Richard Abels s splendid new study of the king, however, is to strip away the varnish of such later interpretations, in order to recover the historical figure - pragmatic, generous, brutal, pious, scholarly - within the context of Alfred s own age.
		Alfred's physical afflictions are examined with an eye to a modern medical diagnosis and their effects on Alfred's personality.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0582040477?v=glance (1590 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Asser's Life of King Alfred
		At the same time the said King Alfred, with a few of his nobles and someknights and men of his household, was in great distress leading an unquiet lifein the woods and marshes of Somerset.
		And Alfred received himas son by adoption, raising him from the sacred font of baptism; and hischrism-loosing on the eighth day was in the royal vill called Wedmore.
		And when they had come to the mouth of the river Stour, suddenly thirteen boatsof the pagans, ready for battle, met them; and a naval battle was begun whichwas bitterly contested on both sides, but which resulted in the killing of allthe pagans and the seizure of all their boats and goods.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/asser.html (1835 words)

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