King Alfred the Great

  • Period: 840 to 900

    King Alfred the Great

  • 849

    born

    alfred was born into family with 4 older brothers
  • 853

    Pilgrimage

    traveled to Rome to see the pope at a young age
  • 868

    Leadership

    First appeared on active military service when he and his brother king Aethelred went to fight a great danish army in east Anglia
  • 871

    King

    Was crowned King of Wessex
  • 871

    Marrige

    Married to lady Ealhswith
  • 886

    London

    Attacked and captured London from the Danes, which brought all English not under danish rule to accept him as king
  • 887

    Learning

    He encouraged learning and literacy throughout his kingdom and he himself translated several book from Latin into English
  • 893

    Biography

    The monk Asser wrote a full length biography about Alfred, making him the only Anglo-Saxon king to have suck a text, and it gives us a lot of information on his actions and that time period.
  • 899

    Death

    Died still as king of Wessex, was never overthrown.