Event: Appointment/consecration/elevation/ordination of king, Kingdom - accession toAlfred 8.accession to kingdom
Scholarly Info
Description |
Alfred 8 acceded to the [West Saxon] kingdom. |
Year |
871 |
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Primary Source Info
Original Text |
... successionem ... |
Date from Source |
<871>: seventy-one years after Ecgberht 6 took the [West Saxon] kingdom under control, forty-seven since the battle of Ellendun, twenty-six from the battle at the Parret, twenty from Acleah, five years from when Anonymi 34 arrived in the territories of the East Angles |
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Notes:
*Ęthelweard 23 makes several errors in dating: as @Campbell points out, 48 would be more exact than 47; and 27 and 6 for 26 and 5 respectively (see @Campbell 1962, p. xxxix).
Persons associated with this Event:
- Recipient:
Alfred 8
(the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons, 871-899)