Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899) (Auld Inglis: [Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd] , "elf coonsel") was King o Wessex frae 871 tae 899. He wis the youngest son o King Æthelwulf o Wessex. His faither dee'd whan he wis young an three o Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht an Æthelred, ringed in turn.

Alfred o Wessex
Statue o Alfred the Great bi Hamo Thornycroft in Winchester, unveiled during the millenary celebrations o Alfred's daith.
Keeng o Wessex
Ring	23 Aprile 871 – 26 October 899
Predecessor	Æthelred
Successor	Edward
Born	849 The Ryal Palace, Wantage, Oxfordshire
Dee'd	26 October 899 (aroond 50) Winchester
Buirial	ca. 1100 Hyde Abbey, Winchester, Hampshire, nou lost
Spouse	Ealhswith
Issue	Æthelflæd, Lady o the Mercians Edward, Keeng o Wessex Æthelgifu abbess o Shaftesbury Æthelweard o Wessex Ælfthryth, Coontess o Flanders
Full name Ælfred o Wessex
Hoose	Hoose o Wessex
Hoose	Hoose o Wessex
Faither	Æthelwulf, Keeng o Wessex
Mither	Osburh
Releegion	Roman Catholicism

Efter accedin tae the throne, Alfred spent several years fechtin Viking invasions. He wan a decisive veectory in the Battle o Edington in 878 an made a greement wi the Vikings, creautin what wis kent as Danelaw in the North o Ingland. Alfred an aw owersaw the conversion o Viking leader Guthrum tae Christianity. He defendit his kinrick against the Viking attempt at conquest, acomin the dominant ruler in Ingland. Details o his life are descrived in a wark bi 9t-century Welsh scholar an bishop Asser.

Alfred haed a reputation as a learned an mercifu man o a gracious an level-heidit natur that encouraged eddication, proponin that primar eddication be conductit in Inglis raither nor Laitin an impruivin the legal seestem, militar structur an his fowk's quality o life. He wis gien the epithet "the Great" in an efter the Reformation in the saxteent century. The anerly ither king o Ingland gien this epithet is Cnut the Great.