Ethelwulf

(ˈɛθəlˌwʊlf) or

Æthelwulf

(Biography) died 858 ad, king of Wessex (839–858)

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The request was granted, and Burgred's Mercian troops, along with Ethelwulf and his Wessex army, took on the Welsh rebels.

COWARDLY KING LEFT TAMWORTH TO BE RAVAGED BY THE VIKINGS

In December 1918, two locally-based trawlers, the Ethelwulf and the TW Mould, struck mines off the River Tyne and sank with all hands.

How communities coped with winds of change after war; New exhibitions on opposite sides of the Tyne will recall the end of the First World War, and the social changes which followed the cessation of the hostilities. TONY HENDERSON looks at how North and South Tyneside are working together to remember the events of 100 years ago

At 3am two explosions engulfed the trawlers TW Mould and Ethelwulf, which vanished without trace will all hands.

North Tyneside First World War plaques tell of tragedies behind front doors; Tony Henderson on how the growing number of blue plaques tells the story of the terrible tragedy of the First World War

Alfred was born in 849 A.D., in the village of Wantage (now in the county of Oxfordshire), the fifth son of King Ethelwulf and his Queen, Osburga.

Alfred the Great, king of Wessex: much of classical Western thought, ideals, and traditions which provided a guidepost for centuries--was initiated and propagated by one man, King Alfred the Great

Such is the constant backstory to the life and eventual reign of Alfred (born AD 849) fifth and youngest son of Ethelwulf King of Wessex when England was comprised of several Anglo-Saxon nations.

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in a royal Saxon residence near the modern town of Wantage in Oxfordshire, the youngest of five surviving children of remarkably pious parents, King Ethelwulf and his Jutish Queen, Osburh.