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Aethelwulf King of Kent & Wessex (son of Egbert I King of Kent & Wessex and Raedburh de Carolingians) was born 806 in Wessex, England, and died 13 Jan 858 in Stambridge.He married Osburh UNKNOWN on 830, daughter of OslacEaldorman, Royal Cupbearer.
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Aethelwulf, also spelled ETHELWULF (d. 858), Anglo-Saxon king in England, the father of King Alfred the Great. As ruler of the West Saxons from 839 to 856, heallied his kingdom of Wessex with Mercia and thereby withstood invasions by Danish Vikings.
The son of the great West Saxon king Egbert (ruled 802-839), Aethelwulf ascended the throne four years after the Danes had begun large-scale raids on the English coast. In 851 he scored a major victory over a large Danish army at a place called Aclea in Surrey. Aethelwulf then married his daughter to the Mercian king Burgred (853), and in 856 he himself married the daughter of Charles II the Bald, king of the West Franks. Aethelwulf was deposed by a rival faction upon his return from a pilgrimage to Rome in 856, but he continued to rule Kent and several other eastern provinces until his death. In addition toAlfred the Great (ruled 871-899), three of Aethelwulf's other sons became kings of Wessex. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]
More About Aethelwulf King of Kent & Wessex and Osburh UNKNOWN:
Marriage: 830
Children of Aethelwulf King of Kent & Wessex and Osburh UNKNOWN are:
  1. +Alfred "The Great" West Saxon King of England, b. 849, Wantage, Bershire, England, d. 26 Oct 899, Winchester, Hamphire, England.