According to Richard Abels, Ealhswith was descended from King of Mercia | "The Radial Velocity of the Andromeda Nebula" |
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The result was a decisive victory for Alfred | The translation was undertaken at Alfred's command by , , with the king merely furnishing a preface |
74—75 It is also written by Asser that Alfred did not learn to read until he was 12 years old or later, which is described as "shameful negligence" of his parents and tutors.
29For 200 years, three families had fought for the West Saxon throne, and no son had followed his father as king | Alfred blockaded them but was unable to take Wareham by assault |
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Originally the purpose of the chrisom-cloth was to keep the , a consecrated oil, from accidentally rubbing off | Childhood [ ] Alfred's father in the early 14th-century Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England According to Asser, in his childhood Alfred won a beautifully decorated book of English poetry, offered as a prize by his mother to the first of her sons able to memorise it |
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