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ETHELWULF

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 292 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
ETHELWULF , king of the West
Saxons
 , succeeded his father Ecgberht in A.D. 839. It is recorded in the Saxon Chronicle for 823 that he was sent with Eahlstan,
bishop
  of Sherborne, and the ealdorman Wulfheard to drive out Baldred, king of Kent, which was successfully accomplished. On the
accession
  of .Ethelwulf, rEthelstan, his son or brother, was made sub-king of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex. lEthelwulf's reign was chiefly occupied with struggles against the Danes. After the king's defeat 843-844, the Somerset and Dorset levies won a victory at the mouth of the Parret, c. 85o. In 851 Ceorl, with the men of
Devon
 , defeated the Danes at Wigganburg, and lEthelstan of Kent was victorious at Sandwich, in spite of which they wintered in England that year for the first time. In 851 also 1Ethelwulf and lEthelbald won their
great
  victory at Aclea, probably the modern Ockley. In 853 AEthelwulf subdued the North Welsh, in answer to the appeal of Burgred of Mercia, and gave him his daughter lEthelswith in
marriage
 . 855 is the year of the Donation of 1Ethelwulf and of his journey to Rome with Alfred. On his way
home
  he married Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald. According to Asser he was compelled to. give up Wessex to his son lEthelbald on his return, and content himself with the eastern sub-kingdom. He died in 858.
See Asser,
Life
  of Alfred (W. H. Stevenson, 1904), 1-16; Saxon Chronicle, s.a. 823, 836, 840, 851, 853, 855. (F. G. M. B.)


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