Ethelwulf

Ethelwulf ( Anglo-Saxon Æþelwulf in ), towards 795 - 858 was King de Wessex) of the dynasty saxonne

His/her father, Egbert de Wessex, put it in 825 on the throne of the Kent lately conquered. In 839, with died Egbert, he inherits the courrone of the Wessex whereas his/her brother Athelstan (or Æþelstan ) becomes viceroy of Kent. Its reign is marked by the fight against the Danish which had penetrated by the the Thames, with 150 ships until London, before taking their winter quarter on the island of Thanet, where it had been established. However, it demolished them with " Acleah" (probably Ockley or Oakley in the Surrey. Very pious, it made a pilgrimage with Rome in 855. It made its subjects tributary of the the Holy See, and imposed a dîme on the profit of the clergy. In its absence, he had entrusted the crown to his son Ethelbald; on its return Ethelwulf found little his/her son laid out has to return its crown to him. This prince had married in second weddings Judith, girl of Charles the Bald person. While dying, on January 13rd 858 it left the crown of Wessex with Ethelbald, and that of Kent to Ethelbert, its second wire, his third wire was Ethelred and the fourth Alfred Large the.

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