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26 OCTOBER 899
Death of King Alfred ‘The Great’, king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons. Alfred was born in 848/49, the son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex (d. 858) and of Osburh, daughter of Oslac, the king’s butler. He was the youngest of at least six children.
He was eventually succeeded by his son Edward. About two years after his father’s death, Edward buried his father in the New Minster at Winchester.
Source: ODNB, ‘Alfred (848/9–899)’, by Patrick Wormald, online edition Oct 2006.
Tags: Anglo Saxon
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