Who was king of Wessex from 871 to 899?
Æthelberht, King of Wessex Chronicle", "and there made the greatest slaughter of a heathen raiding-army that we have heard tell of up to this present day, and there took the victory". Æthelberht was the third of five sons of Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh. Æthelstan died in the early 850s, but the four younger brothers were successively kings of Wessex, Æthelbald from 855 to 860, Æthelberht from 860 to 865, Æthelred I from 865 to 871 and Alfred the Great from 871 to 899. Æthelberht had one sister, Æthelswith, who married King Burgred of Mercia in 853. Æthelberht was first recorded when he
Æthelred of Wessex Æthelred of Wessex Æthelred I (Old English: "Æþelræd", sometimes rendered as Ethelred, "noble counsel"; – 871) was King of Wessex from 865 to 871. He was the fourth son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. He succeeded his brother, Æthelberht (Ethelbert), as King of Wessex and Kent in 865. In 853 his younger brother Alfred went to Rome, and according to contemporary references in the "Liber Vitae" of San Salvatore, Brescia, Æthelred accompanied him. He first witnessed his father's charters as an Ætheling in 854, and kept this title until he succeeded to the throne in 865. He may have acted