4718728. Bernard was born 1 in 797. He died on 17 Apr 818. He married Cuningunde. [Parents]
4718729. Cuningunde died 1 in 835.
4718736. King Ethelred I (Aethelred) Saxon King of Wessex \ Ethelred was born 1 about 840 in Wessex, England. He died in 871 in the Battle of Merton in Oxfordshire. The cause of death was wounds received in the Battle of Merton. He was buried in 871 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset. King was employed as Saxon King of England in 865/871. [Parents]
Source for Reign ; 'Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards' by David Hilliam ISBN 0-7509-234-7 (920.041HIL @ DY)
Ethelred I was crowned at Kingston upon Thames and fought no fewer than eight battles against the Danes. Held in great esteem because of his piety and venerated as a saint, it is said before the crucial Battle of Ashdown he refused to rise from his knees until he had completed hearing Mass, saying he would not serve man before God. In 1440 a Memorial Brass effigy was put in Wimborne Abbey, six hunded years after his birth.
Most of the Berkshire stories about his younger brother King Alfred date from this time before he took the throne. All three of Alfred�s brothers ruled before him, and though the youngest of the family, there had always been a belief that he would one day wear the Crown. He was not inactive during this period of waiting though. Alfred was a staunch supporter of his brothers, especially the last, King Ethelred I, who faced the task of holding his country together against the marauding Danes. The Danes had been harassing the English Coast for thirty years before Ethelred came to the throne; but it was in his coronation year of 865 that they embarked on a major invasion and overran the Kingdom of East Anglia. By 870 they had arrived in Wessex determined to take as much from the Kingdom as they could. They sailed up the Thames and disembarked at Maidenhead. Marching across Berkshire they captured the Royal Villa at Reading. Here they decided to build their base and so raised great earthen ramparts between the Thames and the Kennet to protect themselves within. They were said to have also had a look-out camp at Sulhamstead. From their new stronghold two Danish Earls rode out towards Aldermaston with a raiding party. At Englefield they were halted by Aethelwulf, the Ealdorman of Berkshire, and his men, and it was here that the first clash in the Kingdom between the old enemies took place. The invaders were thoroughly defeated: one of the Earls was amongst the dead, and those left alive were sent packing back to Reading. Ethelred and Alfred joined Aethelwulf four days later, and together they drove the Danish from their outposts. From places like Sulhamstead, the Danes were pushed back to Reading, and the English marched on the town, bent on regaining the Royal lands. The ensuing battle was fierce, especially around the gate to the Danish stronghold, but the Saxons could not penetrate within. Aethelwulf was killed in the fighting and his army repulsed. They were pursued into the marshes at Whistley; but the Danes lost their way and the Saxons were able to flee across the twin ford of the River Loddon (Twyford). The Danish victory was short-lived however.
4718768. Ingelgar of Anjou was born about 860 in of Anjou. He married Alendis, heiress of Amboise. [Parents]
Refer Genealogy Table The Houses of Blois and Champagne at Eleanor of Aquitaine' by Alison Weir ISBN 0-224-04424-9
Flourished 0880.
4718769. Alendis, heiress of Amboise was born about 860 in of Amboise.
Refer Genealogy Table The Houses of Blois and Champagne at Eleanor of Aquitaine' by Alison Weir ISBN 0-224-04424-9
4718776. Herbert I (Comte) DE VERMANDOIS is printed as #1179682.
4718777. Bertha DE MORVOIS is printed as #1179683.
4718778. Robert I died 1 on 15 Jun 923.
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