biography
| sex:
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| lived:
| (c.870–924)
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| biography:
| King of Wessex (from 899), the elder son of Alfred the Great. He built on his father's successes and established himself as the strongest ruler in Britain. By one of the most decisive military campaigns of the whole Anglo-Saxon period, he conquered and annexed to Wessex the S Danelaw (910–18). He also assumed control of Mercia (918). Although he exercised no direct power in the North, all the chief rulers beyond the R Humber, including the King of the Scots, formally recognized his overlordship in 920. |
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