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Alfred "The Great" (King of Wessex) 1

Male 0849 - 0899  (50 years)Deceased


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Alfred "The Great" (King of Wessex) 1 was born on 9 May 0849 in Wantage, Berkshire, (Oxfordshire), Wales, England; died on 26 Oct 0899 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.

    Alfred married Ealhswith Alswith (Princess of Mercia and Gaini) 1 in 868 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Ealhswith (daughter of Lord Ethelred Mucil Gainsborough and Eadburh Fadburn Queen Of Mercia) was born in 0852 in Mercia, Anglo Saxon, England; died on 5 Dec 0905 in St. Mary's Abbey, Winchester, Dorset interred: Winchester Cathedral. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Aelfthryth Elfrida "Lady of Mercia" Princess of England WESSEX  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 869 in Wessex Kingdom, Anglo Saxon, England; died on 7 Jun 929 in Flanders, Interred St Peters Abbey, Ghent, Belgium.
    2. 3. Edmond Wessex  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 870; died in England.
    3. 4. Edmund I "The Elder"( King of Wessex) WESSEX (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 874 in Wantage, Wessex, England; died on 17 Jul 924 in Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire, England.
    4. 5. Elgiva Elfgifu Denmark Wessex (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 875 in Wantage, Berkshire, England; died in 929 in Denmark.
    5. 6. AEthelweard of Wessex  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 880 in Wessex, England; died in 922 in Farrington, Berkshire, England.
    6. 7. Aethelflaed of Wessex  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 0917 in Wessex, England; died on 12 Jun 0963 in Gloucestershire, England.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Aelfthryth Elfrida "Lady of Mercia" Princess of England WESSEX Descendancy chart to this point (1.Alfred1) was born in 869 in Wessex Kingdom, Anglo Saxon, England; died on 7 Jun 929 in Flanders, Interred St Peters Abbey, Ghent, Belgium.

    Aelfthryth married Baldwin Baudouin "The Bald" Count FLANDERS (maid. name II)Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Baldwin was born in 864 in Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 9 Oct 918 in Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Arnulf Arnold I The Old Comte of Flanders (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 12 Dec 889 in Ghent, Flanders (now Belgium); died in 965 in St Peters, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium.

  2. 3.  Edmond Wessex Descendancy chart to this point (1.Alfred1) was born in 870; died in England.

  3. 4.  Edmund I "The Elder"( King of Wessex) WESSEX (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (1.Alfred1) was born in 874 in Wantage, Wessex, England; died on 17 Jul 924 in Farndon-on-Dee, Cheshire, England.

    Family/Spouse: Ælfflæd Elflaed Elfreda "Queen of England" KENT (maid. name 1). Ælfflæd was born in 878 in Kent, England; died on 25 Aug 962 in Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Athelstan 'The Glorious' (King of Wessex) WESSEX (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 895 in Wessex, England; died on 27 Oct 939 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.
    2. 10. Emiliane Of Wessex 1  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 June 901 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died in 946 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.
    3. 11. Eadgifu (Princess of England) Wessex (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Sep 902 in Durham, Durham, England; died on 28 Oct 955.
    4. 12. Ælfweard, (King of Wessex)) WESSEX (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 904 in Wessex, England; died on 2 Aug 924 in Oxford, England.
    5. 13. Eadgyth 'Edith', Princess of England (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 910 in Wessex, England; died on 26 Jan 946 in St Maurice Cathedral, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.
    6. 14. Edmund II ( King of Wessex) WESSEX  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 27 Oct 921 in Winchester, Hampshire, Wessex, England; died on 26 May 946 in Murdered- Puckle Church, Glastonbury, Dorset, Somerset, England.
    7. 15. Aethelred I (King of Wessex) WESSEX (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 924 in Wessex, England; died on 23 Nov 955 in Frome, Somerset, England.

  4. 5.  Elgiva Elfgifu Denmark Wessex (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (1.Alfred1) was born in 875 in Wantage, Berkshire, England; died in 929 in Denmark.

    Family/Spouse: Hartacut Harold II Parcus Of Denmark England (maid. name 1). Hartacut (son of King Gorm Eriske I of Denmark (maid. name 1) and Queen Sida of Denmark (maid. name 1)) was born about 867 in Sjaelland Island, Denmark; died in 899 in Jellinge, Vejle, Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 16. Gorm, "The Old, or the Sleepy", King of Denmark Hardaknutsson  Descendancy chart to this point was born between 908-918 in Jellinge, Vejle, Denmark; died in 958 in Jelling, Vejle, Denmark.

  5. 6.  AEthelweard of Wessex Descendancy chart to this point (1.Alfred1) was born in 880 in Wessex, England; died in 922 in Farrington, Berkshire, England.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 17. Aefwine  Descendancy chart to this point died in 937 in Killed at Battle of brunanburth.
    2. 18. Aetherwine  Descendancy chart to this point died in 937 in Killed at Battle of brunanburth.

  6. 7.  Aethelflaed of Wessex Descendancy chart to this point (1.Alfred1) was born in 0917 in Wessex, England; died on 12 Jun 0963 in Gloucestershire, England.

    Aethelflaed married Aethelwerd ( The Historian) Thane of Sussex in 0945 in Wessex, England. Aethelwerd (son of Eadric Earldorman of Wessex and AETHELGIFU of WESSEX) was born about 915 in Wessex, England; died in 1005 in Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 19. Aethelmar Cild Theign of Sussex (The stout)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 960 in Sussex England; died in 1015 in Compton, Sussex, England.


Generation: 3

  1. 8.  Arnulf Arnold I The Old Comte of Flanders (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (2.Aelfthryth2, 1.Alfred1) was born on 12 Dec 889 in Ghent, Flanders (now Belgium); died in 965 in St Peters, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium.

    Arnulf married ADELA Vermandois (maid. name 2) about 932 in Flanders, Belgium. ADELA (daughter of Herbert II Senlis Comte de Troyes Vermandois (maid. name 1) and Princess Adela - Hildebrante - Liegarde Robertien - Capet de Neustria (maid. name 1)) was born about 910 in Vermandois, Neustria; died on 10 Oct 960 in Bruges, Gironde, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 20. Baldwin Baudouin Artoi Flanders (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 930 in Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 1 Jan 962 in France, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France.

  2. 9.  Athelstan 'The Glorious' (King of Wessex) WESSEX (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born in 895 in Wessex, England; died on 27 Oct 939 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.

  3. 10.  Emiliane Of Wessex 1 Descendancy chart to this point (4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born on 21 June 901 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died in 946 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.

    Family/Spouse: Ebalus Manzer II 'Le Bastard' Count of Pointers and Duke Aquitaine. Ebalus (son of Ranulf II of Aquitaine and Poitou and Ermengarde Adelaide Carolingien) was born on 23 Feb 870 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 14 Oct 935 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 21. William III 'Towhead' Duke of Aquitaine  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Oct 915 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, Kingdom of France; died on 03 Apr 963 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.

    Emiliane married Ebalus of Poitiers, Duke of Aquitaine on 11 Feb 915 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, Kingdom of France. Ebalus was born on 23 Feb 876 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, Kingdom of France; died on 14 Oct 935 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, Kingdom of France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 21. William III 'Towhead' Duke of Aquitaine  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Oct 915 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, Kingdom of France; died on 03 Apr 963 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.

  4. 11.  Eadgifu (Princess of England) Wessex (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born on 17 Sep 902 in Durham, Durham, England; died on 28 Oct 955.

    Family/Spouse: Charles III (king of west francia) 'The Simple' (maid. name 1). Charles (son of Louis II (King of west francia) Franks and Adelaide Judith) was born in Sep 879 in Péronne, Somme, Picardie, France; died on 7 Oct 929 in Péronne, Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 22. Louis IV Transmarinus King of France de Martel (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 10 Sep 920 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died on 10 Sep 954 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France.

    Family/Spouse: Herbert III (count of Omois) Vermandois. Herbert (son of Herbert II Senlis Comte de Troyes Vermandois (maid. name 1) and Princess Adela - Hildebrante - Liegarde Robertien - Capet de Neustria (maid. name 1)) was born in 910 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in 980 in Vermandois, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  5. 12.  Ælfweard, (King of Wessex)) WESSEX (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born in 904 in Wessex, England; died on 2 Aug 924 in Oxford, England.

  6. 13.  Eadgyth 'Edith', Princess of England (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born in 910 in Wessex, England; died on 26 Jan 946 in St Maurice Cathedral, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

  7. 14.  Edmund II ( King of Wessex) WESSEX Descendancy chart to this point (4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born on 27 Oct 921 in Winchester, Hampshire, Wessex, England; died on 26 May 946 in Murdered- Puckle Church, Glastonbury, Dorset, Somerset, England.

    Edmund married Elgiva "Saint Ælfgifu" Princess of England and WessexWessex, England. Elgiva (daughter of Elfleda Of England) was born in 922 in Wessex Kingdom, England; died on 28 Oct 944 in Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 23. Edgar "The Peaceable" King of Wessex  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 7 Aug 0943 in Wessex Kingdom, Anglo Saxon, England; died on 8 Jul 0975 in Winchester, Hampshire, , England.

  8. 15.  Aethelred I (King of Wessex) WESSEX (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born in 924 in Wessex, England; died on 23 Nov 955 in Frome, Somerset, England.

  9. 16.  Gorm, "The Old, or the Sleepy", King of Denmark Hardaknutsson Descendancy chart to this point (5.Elgiva2, 1.Alfred1) was born between 908-918 in Jellinge, Vejle, Denmark; died in 958 in Jelling, Vejle, Denmark.

    Family/Spouse: Thyra Danebod Klacksdatter Jutland. Thyra (daughter of Harald Klak Jutland Halfdansson and Sigrid Haitabu Helgesdatter) was born in 1003 in Jelling, Vejle, Denmark; died in Jellinghojene, Jellinge, Vejle, Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 24. Harald (bluetooth) Gormsson (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 910 in Normandy, France; died in 1031 in Hellig, Roskilde, Denmark.

  10. 17.  Aefwine Descendancy chart to this point (6.AEthelweard2, 1.Alfred1) died in 937 in Killed at Battle of brunanburth.

  11. 18.  Aetherwine Descendancy chart to this point (6.AEthelweard2, 1.Alfred1) died in 937 in Killed at Battle of brunanburth.

  12. 19.  Aethelmar Cild Theign of Sussex (The stout) Descendancy chart to this point (7.Aethelflaed2, 1.Alfred1) was born in 960 in Sussex England; died in 1015 in Compton, Sussex, England.

    Family/Spouse: Aethelthrith Of Wessex. Aethelthrith was born about 962 in Wessex, England; died in 1017 in Killed by cunt the Viking Wessex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 25. Wulfnoth Cild Thegn of Sussex  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Wessex, England; died in 1015 in Held, Sussex, England or Winchester Castle, Hampshire.
    2. 26. Aethelnoth (Archbishop of Canterbury)  Descendancy chart to this point died in 1038.


Generation: 4

  1. 20.  Baldwin Baudouin Artoi Flanders (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (8.Arnulf3, 2.Aelfthryth2, 1.Alfred1) was born about 930 in Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 1 Jan 962 in France, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France.

    Baldwin married Matilda Mechtilde Mathilde Machila Maud Mahaud Saxony (maid. name 1) in 961 in Flanders, France. Matilda (daughter of Herman Duke of Saxony Billung and Hildegarde of Westerbourg) was born in 940 in Sachsen, Germany; died on 25 May 1008 in Flanders, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 27. Arnulf Arnold Arnolph II the Young Flanders (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Dec 961 in Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 30 Mar 987 in St Laurent, Gironde, Aquitaine, France.
    2. 28. Bonne Adelaide Comtesse d Ardennes  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Ardenne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in 1049 in Ardenne, France.
    3. 29. Jean Baron de Conteville de Tonsburgh  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 959 in Conteville, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1012 in Conteville, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France.
    4. 30. Bertha Countess of Flanders  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1008 in Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died in 1025.

  2. 21.  William III 'Towhead' Duke of Aquitaine Descendancy chart to this point (10.Emiliane3, 4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born on 22 Oct 915 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, Kingdom of France; died on 03 Apr 963 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.

    William married Gerloc Adèle of Normandy, Duchess of Aquitaine in 935 in Aquitaine, Kingdom of France. Gerloc was born in 912 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, Kingdom of France; died on 14 Oct 962 in France, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, Kingdom of France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 31. William IV 'Iron Arm', Duke of Aquitaine  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 949 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France; died on 3 Apr 0995 in Saint Maixent Lecole, Deux-Sevres, Poitou-Charentes, France.

  3. 22.  Louis IV Transmarinus King of France de Martel (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (11.Eadgifu3, 4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born on 10 Sep 920 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died on 10 Sep 954 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France.

    Family/Spouse: Gerberge Duchess Lorraine Maine (maid. name 1). Gerberge was born on 4 Jul 914 in Nordhausen, Vogtlandkreis, Sachsen, Germany; died on 5 May 984 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 32. Matilda Queen Consort of Burgundy FRANCE (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 943 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 27 Jan 981 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.

  4. 23.  Edgar "The Peaceable" King of Wessex Descendancy chart to this point (14.Edmund3, 4.Edmund2, 1.Alfred1) was born on 7 Aug 0943 in Wessex Kingdom, Anglo Saxon, England; died on 8 Jul 0975 in Winchester, Hampshire, , England.

    Family/Spouse: Wulfthyth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Edgar married Aelfhyth Ordgar, of Devonshire England in 0965 in , , Wessex, England. Aelfhyth (daughter of Ordgar Earl of Devon Ealdorman and Lady Wulfrith "Redburch" of Wessex, Princess of Denmark, Countess of Cornwall and Devon) was born in 947 in Lydford Castle, Devonshire, , England; died on 17 Nov 1000 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 33. Aethelred II ( the unready) King of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Mar 968 in Wessex, England; died on 23 Apr 1016 in London, London, England.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 34. St Edward "the martyr" (king of Wessex)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 962; died in 978 in Murdered, at, Corfe Castle, Dorset, England.
    2. 35. St Edith (Eadgyth) of Wilton  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 963; died in 984.

  5. 24.  Harald (bluetooth) Gormsson (maid. name 1) Descendancy chart to this point (16.Gorm,3, 5.Elgiva2, 1.Alfred1) was born in 910 in Normandy, France; died in 1031 in Hellig, Roskilde, Denmark.

    Harald married Gyrithe Queen of Denmark OlafsdotterSweden. Gyrithe was born in 935 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden; died in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 36. Herbastis Prince of Denmark de Crepon  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 0945 in Normandy, , , France; died in 1002 in Arques, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France.

    Family/Spouse: Gunhild Haraldsdatter. Gunhild was born in 905 in Copenhagen, København, Denmark; died in Dec 1029 in Longueville, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 37. Thyra Haraldsdatter (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 947 in Gormshoj, Jellinge, Vejle, Denmark; died on 18 Sep 1000 in Ørmen, Ostfold, Norway.
    2. 38. Sigrid De Crepon Sprakling (maid. name 1)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 956 in Hålland, Jamtland, Sweden; died on 18 Sep 1000 in Y, Somme, Picardie, France.
    3. 39. Swein ( King of Denmark) Forkbeard  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 960 in Jelling, Vejle, Denmark; died in 1014 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.
    4. 40. Gunhild Maria Haraldsen  Descendancy chart to this point died in November 1002 in Devon, England, killed in St. Brice's Day Massacre.

  6. 25.  Wulfnoth Cild Thegn of Sussex Descendancy chart to this point (19.Aethelmar3, 7.Aethelflaed2, 1.Alfred1) was born in Wessex, England; died in 1015 in Held, Sussex, England or Winchester Castle, Hampshire.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 41. Godwin ( 1st Earl Of Wessex) Wulfnosonn  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 986 in Sussex, England; died on 15 Apr 1053 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; was buried in Winchester, Hampshire, England.

  7. 26.  Aethelnoth (Archbishop of Canterbury) Descendancy chart to this point (19.Aethelmar3, 7.Aethelflaed2, 1.Alfred1) died in 1038.