Ancestry of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex

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!!! NOTE !!! Per Culpeper ancestral reasearch, the following ancestries remain unproven: the Malet, Poyntz, Beaumont, Vermandois (though some lines in the Beaumont and Vermandois ancestries are confirmed), Anjou, Kievan ancestry, Byzantine ancestry, Viking ancestry, de Braiose (though some lines there are verified), La Zouche, ancestry to kings of Leinster, legendary Irish ancestry and ancestry to the kings of Wales and Mercia and all the ancestries thereof. A verified line goes back to Alfred the Great via HENRY, PRINCE OF SCOTLAND though some of Alfred's ancestry is debated. Solid lines depict lines assumed to be verified to me while dashed lines are unverified (on this page only!).

House of Wessex

    Cerdic of Wessex

first King of Anglo-Saxon Wessex 519-534
founder of Wessex
d. 534
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Cerdic landed in Hampshire in 495 with his son Cynric in five ships. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerdic_of_Wessex)		      
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    Cynric of Wessex
King of Wessex 534-560
d. 560		      
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    Ceawlin of Wessex
a.k.a. Ceaulin and Caelin
d. ca. 593		      
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    Cuthwine of Wessex
b. 565		      
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    Cutha Cathwulf
b. ca. 592		      
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Ancestry up for debate
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    Ceolwald of Wessex      
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    Cenred/Coenred of Wessex      
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    Ingild, brother of King Ine of Wessex      
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    Ealhmund of Kent
King of Kent in 784.		            
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    Egbert

b. 771/775
d. 839
a.k.a. Ecgberht, Ecgbert, or Ecgbriht
King of Wessex 802-839		              
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Oslac, (a descendant from Goths and Jutes) who had ruled the Isle of Wight. According to Abernethy, he "was the butler or cupbearer or seneschal to Aethelwulf."
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    Æthewulf
King of Wessex 839-858
(Old English for Noble Wolf)

d. 13 January 858		 m. Osburh / Osburga

d. before 856, daughter of Oslac

Article: Osburh, Mother of Anglo-Saxon King Alfred the Great by Susan Abernethy

   Æthelred Mucel
Ealdorman of the Gaini, an Anglo-Saxon noble from Mercia		 m. Eadburh. She is claimed to be a descendant of King Coenwulf of Mercia and his wife Elfrida    
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    Alfred the Great
King of Wessex

b. 849, Wantage or Wimborne, Wessex (Abernethy)
d. 26 October 899
(Old English: Ælfred, Ælfræd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf") was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is one of only two English monarchs to be given the epithet "the Great", the other one being Cnut the Great. He was also the first King of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons". Details of Alfred's life are described in a work by the 10th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser. A devout Christian, Alfred had a reputation as a learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education and improved his kingdom's legal system, military structure and his people's quality of life. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great)

 m. Ealhswith
(Ealswitha)

d. 5 December 902
According to the historian Cyril Hart she was a descendant of King Coenwulf of Mercia.		      
       
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descendants of Alfred the Great		         
Developed in July 2015.