Æthelwulf was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey.

* Æthelwulf of Elmham ( before 730 – after 781 ), also referenced as Athelwolfus ; Roman Catholic / Orthodox Bishop of Elmham ; succeeded Eanfrith and was succeeded by Alherdus

* Æthelwulf of Berkshire ( before 825 – 871 ), Saxon Ealdorman who won 31 December 870 Battle of Englefield, but lost his life at 4 January 871 Battle of Reading ; received land grant in 843 / 44 from Brihtwulf, king of Mercia

* Adelolf, Count of Boulogne ( before 890 – 933 ), Saxon nobleman who held extensive lands and many offices in what is now north of modern France and west of Belgium ; great-grandson of King Æthelwulf of Wessex

Osburh or Osburga ( died before 856 ) was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great.

That the king should have consented to treat with his rebellious son, to refer the compromise to a meeting of Saxon nobles, to moderate the pugnacity of his own supporters, and to resign the rule over the more important half of his dominions – all this testifies to the fact that Æthelwulf ’ s Christian spirit did not exhaust itself in the giving of lavish charities to the Church, but availed to reconcile him to the sacrifice of prestige and power in the cause of national peace.

The genealogical preface to this manuscript, as well as the annual entry ( covering years 855 – 859 ) describing the death of Æthelwulf, both make king Egbert of Wessex the son of an Ealhmund, who was son of Eafa, grandson of Eoppa, and great-grandson of Ingild, the brother of king Ine of Wessex, and descendant of founder Cerdic, and therefore a member of the House of Wessex ( see House of Wessex family tree ).

* Æthelwulf of Wessex ( c. 795 – 858 ), elder son of King Egbert of Wessex ; King of Kent ( 825 ); King of Wessex, Cornwall, West Saxons and East Saxons ( 839 ); crowned at Kingston upon Thames ; father of Alfred the Great

The earliest of Beorhtwulf's coins were issued in 841 – 842, and can be identified as the work of a Rochester die-cutter who also produced coins early in the reign of Æthelwulf of Wessex.

In 855, about a year after his wife Osburga's death, Æthelwulf followed Alfred to Rome.

In 855 he became regent of Wessex while his father, Æthelwulf, visited Rome, his elder brother Æthelstan having died in 851 or shortly after.

Judith had previously been married to Æthelwulf and his son ( from an earlier marriage ) Æthelbald, kings of Wessex, but after the latter's death in 860 she had returned to France.

No record of this exists from Beorhtwulf's reign, but in 853, not long after Beorhtwulf's death, the Welsh rebelled against Burgred and were subdued by an alliance between Burgred and Æthelwulf.

The Vikings were defeated by Æthelwulf and his sons, Æthelstan and Æthelbald, but the economic impact appears to have been significant, as Mercian coinage in London was very limited after 851.

Three days after their arrival, a party of Danes rode out towards nearby Englefield, where a West Saxon force under the command of Æthelwulf, the Ealdorman of the shire, was waiting for them.

Æthelwulf was present at the synod of London in 811 and the synod of Chelsea in 816.

Æthelwulf died between 816 and 824.

Æthelbald would retain the western shires ( i. e., traditional Wessex ), and Æthelwulf would rule in the east.

His fame reached the king's ears, and he appointed him tutor of his son, Æthelwulf ( alias Adulphus ), and considered him one of his chief friends.

Æthelweard and Ælfweard re-appear as brothers and thegns ( ministri ) in the witness list of a spurious royal charter dated 974 This appears to be the same Æthelweard who regularly attests royal charters between 958 and 977 as the king's thegn and may have moved on to become the illustrious ealdorman of the Western Provinces and author of a Latin chronicle, in which he claimed descent from King Æthelred of Wessex ( d. 871 ), fourth son of King Æthelwulf.

In 855 King Æthelwulf of Wessex made a pilgrimage to Rome, and on his way back in 856 he stayed at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles the Bald.

His first name, composed of the elements æðele, meaning " noble ", and ræd, meaning " counsel " or " advice ", is typical of the compound names of those who belonged to the royal House of Wessex, and it characteristically alliterates with the names of his ancestors, like Æthelwulf (" noble-wolf "), Ælfred (" elf-counsel "), Edward (" rich-protection "), and Edgar (" rich-spear ").

It was possibly on the summit of Leith Hill in 851, that Æthelwulf of Wessex, father of Alfred the Great, defeated the Danes who were heading for Winchester, having sacked Canterbury and London.

In July Æthelwulf became engaged to Charles's daughter, Judith, who was no more than fourteen, while Æthelwulf was about fifty years old, and on 1 October 856 they were married at Verberie in northern France.

Judith had no children by Æthelwulf, who died on 13 January 858.

: Once King Æthelwulf was dead, Æthelbald, his son, against God's prohibition and Christian dignity, and also contrary to the practice of all pagans, took over his father's marriage-bed and married Judith, daughter of Charles, king of the Franks, incurring great disgrace from all who heard of it.

One theory espoused by Cyril Hart and considered by Pauline Stafford makes her a noblewoman of Mercian stock, who descended from Ealdorman Æthelfrith of Mercia and his wife Æthelgyth, who may have been a daughter of ealdorman Æthelwulf and a niece of King Alfred's Mercian consort Ealhswith.

He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, by his first wife, Osburh.

On their return from Rome in 856, Æthelwulf was deposed by his son Æthelbald.

When King Æthelwulf died in 858, Wessex was ruled by three of Alfred's brothers in succession, Æthelbald, Æthelbert and Æthelred.

During the reign of his successor Æthelwulf, a Danish army arrived in the Thames estuary but was decisively defeated.

Æthelwulf was succeeded in turn by his four sons, the youngest being Alfred the Great.

He was the fourth son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex.

Æthelwulf, also spelled Aethelwulf or Ethelwulf ; Old English: Æþelwulf, meaning " Noble Wolf ", was King of Wessex from 839 until his death in 858.

To Frank Stenton, " Æthelwulf seems to have been a religious and unambitious man, for whom engagement in war and politics was an unwelcome consequence of rank.

Here, Æthelwulf and his son Æthelbald fought against the heathen, and according to the chronicle it was " the greatest slaughter of heathen host ever made.

While Æthelwulf was able to muster enough support to fight a civil war or to banish Æthelbald and his fellow conspirators, he instead chose to yield western Wessex to his son, while he himself retained central and eastern Wessex.

It was found at Laverstock, Wiltshire, in 1780 ; it is believed to have been a gift from Æthelwulf to a loyal follower.

Æthelwulf was first married to Osburh, daughter of Oslac.

He was the second of the five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and Osburh.

He was the third son of Æthelwulf of Wessex and his first wife, Osburh.

But he was accepted by them and cared for like one of their own kind, and afterwards they chose him as king, from whose family descended King Æthelwulf.

Under Æthelwulf, Swithun was appointed bishop of Winchester, to which see he was consecrated by Archbishop Ceolnoth.

Almost no coins were issued by Beorhtwulf's predecessor, Wiglaf, but a Mercian coinage was restarted by Beorhtwulf early in his reign, initially with strong similarities to the coins of Æthelwulf of Wessex, and later with independent designs.

Egbert was succeeded by his son Æthelwulf upon his death.