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Note: Alfred The Great, King of England "Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871 to ca. 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from ca. 886 to 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex."
"Alfred was born in the royal estate of Wantage, historically in Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire, between 847 and 849. He was the youngest of five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex by his first wife, Osburh."
"In 868, Alfred married Ealhswith, daughter of Æthelred Mucel and Eadburh. They had five children: Æthelflæd, Edward, Æthelgifu, Æthelweard, and Ælfthryth."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great
Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. 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 according to the historian Cyril Hart she was a descendant of King Coenwulf of Mercia. She is commemorated as a saint in the Christian East and the West on 20 July.
She married Alfred in 868 at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. His elder brother Æthelred was then king, and Alfred was regarded as heir apparent.
Alfred and Ealhswith had five children who survived to adulthood:
Æthelflæd (d. 918), Lady of the Mercians, married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians
Edward the Elder (d. 924), King of the Anglo-Saxons
Æthelgifu, made abbess of her foundation at Shaftesbury by her father
Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (d. 929), married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders
Æthelweard (d. c. 920)
Died 5 December 902 and was buried at New Minster, Winchester
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