House of Wessex

king of Wessex (r. 872–901)

Æthelstan or Athelstan (; ; ; ; – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern historians regard him as the first King of England and one of the "greatest Anglo-Saxon kings". He never married and had no children; he was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.

Edward the Confessor was King of the English from 1042 until his death in 1066. He was the last reigning monarch of the House of Wessex.

King of England (r. 939–946)

King of England

king of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924)

King of the English, Wessex dynasty

King of the English (r. 959–975)

Eadred (also Edred, – 23 November 955) was King of the English from 26 May 946 until his death in 955. He was the younger son of Edward the Elder and his third wife, Eadgifu. When his elder brother, Edmund I, was killed in 946, Edmund's two sons, Eadwig and Edgar, were young children, so Eadred became king. He suffered from ill health in the last years of his life and died in his early thirties, having never married. He was succeeded in turn by his nephews, Eadwig and Edgar.

Eadwig (also Edwy or Eadwig All-Fair, 1 October 959) was King of England from 23 November 955 until his death in 959. He was the elder son of Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu, who died in 944. Eadwig and his brother Edgar were young children when their father was killed trying to rescue his seneschal from attack by an outlawed thief on 26 May 946. As Edmund's sons were too young to rule he was succeeded by his brother Eadred, who suffered from ill health and died unmarried in his early 30s.

King of Wessex

King of the English (975-978)

King of Wessex (r. 865–871)

disputed King of England

Norman princess and mother of Edward the Confessor

King of Wessex

7th-century King of Mercia

West Saxon monarch

Queen of Scotland from 1070 to 1093

King of Wessex

Æthelflæd ( – 12 June 918) ruled as Lady of the Mercians in the English Midlands from 911 until her death in 918. She was the eldest child of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

King of Wessex

family that initially ruled Wessex kingdom

1st King of Wessex from 519 to 534

queen consort of Wessex and countess of Flanders

King of Wessex (r. 786-802)

King of Wessex

Cynric () was King of Wessex from 534 to 560. Everything known about him comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There, he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic, who is considered the founder of the kingdom of Wessex. However, the Anglian King-list and parts of the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (which may partly derive from the Anglian King-list and was a source for the Chronicle), instead says that Cynric was the son of Cerdic's son Creoda. Similarly, the paternal genealogy of Alfred the Great given in Asser's The Life of King Alfred, includes the name Creoda, while the account of the

Edith of England, also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth (, ; 910–946), a member of the House of Wessex, was the East Frankish (German) queen from 936, by her marriage to King Otto the Great.

King of Wessex

8th-century English monarch

son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth

King of Wessex

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King of Wessex

Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. She was the mother of King Edward the Elder who succeeded King Alfred to the Anglo-Saxon throne. Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucel, Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family and her lineage was one of the primary reasons for Alfred taking Ealhswith as his wife. She founded the nunnery of Nunnaminster.

Cædwalla (; 659 – 20 April 689) was the King of Wessex from approximately 685 until he abdicated in 688. His name is derived from the Welsh Cadwallon. He was exiled from Wessex as a youth and during this period gathered forces and attacked the South Saxons, killing their king, Æthelwealh, in what is now Sussex. Cædwalla was unable to hold the South Saxon territory, however, and was driven out by Æthelwealh's ealdormen. In either 685 or 686, he became King of Wessex. He may have been involved in suppressing rival dynasties at this time, as an early source records that Wessex was ruled by underk

King of Wessex

11th-century Queen of England

King of Wessex

King of Wessex

Queen of Wessex

king of Wessex

Queen consort of France

7th-century English monarch

Osburh or Osburga (also Osburga Oslacsdotter) was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of King Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser, described her as "a most religious woman, noble in character and noble by birth."

King of Wessex

7th-century English monarch

Countess consort of Flanders (877-929)

10th century queen consort of England

first wife of Edmund I

wife of King Eadwig

Son of English king Æthelred II and his second wife Emma of Normandy; brother of Edward the Confessor

monarch

Anglo-Saxon historian

Wife of Edward the Exile

English nun

7th-century English monarch

Anglo-Saxon royal consort

first wife of Æthelred the Unready