King Ethelwulf of Wessex, father of Alfred the Great was born in Aachen.

Alfred the Great (, " elf counsel "; 849 – 26 October 899 ) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

Alfred the Great plots the capture of the Danish fleet.

Alfred the Great is scolded by his subject, a neatherd's wife, for not turning the breads but readily eating them when they are baked in her cottage.

Alfred the Great silver offering penny, 871 – 899.

Historical mixed media figure of Alfred the Great produced by artist / historian George S. Stuart and photographed by Peter d ' Aprix.

In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.

* Alfred the Great ( 849 – 899 ), king of Wessex

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

King Alfred the Great and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district that is now called Angeln, in the province of Schleswig ( Slesvig ) ( though it may then have been of greater extent ), and this identification agrees with the indications given by Bede.

The use of the word borough probably derives from the burghal system of Alfred the Great.

893, Alfred the Great combined this and two other earlier Saxon codes, with various Mosaic and Christian precepts, to produce the Doom Book code of laws for England.

In the late 800s, Alfred the Great assembled the Doom book ( not to be confused with the more-famous Domesday Book from 200 years later ), which collected the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and attempted to blend in the Mosaic code, Christian principles, and Germanic customs dating as far as the fifth century.

* Doom book, or Code of Alfred the Great

The Chronicle is a set of annals which were compiled near the year 890, during the reign of King Alfred the Great of Wessex.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

In 899 Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, died leaving his son Edward the Elder as ruler of Britain south of the River Thames and his daughter Æthelflæd and son-in-law Æthelred ruling the western, English part of Mercia.

In medieval Anglo-Saxon England, society was organized, according to Alfred the Great into three hierarchical orders: Gebedmen ( men who pray ), Fyrdmen ( men who fight ), Weorcmen ( men who work ).

It had been the capital of Wessex under Alfred the Great, and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 13th century but widely believed to be the original by Malory's time.

890 by Wulfstan of Hedeby, an Anglo-Saxon sailor, travelling on the south coast of the Baltic Sea at the behest of King Alfred the Great of England.

Edith was born to the reigning English king Edward ' the Elder ' by his second wife, Ælfflæd, and hence was granddaughter of Alfred the Great.

Edmund came to the throne as the son of Edward the Elder, grandson of Alfred the Great, great-grandson of Ethelwulf of Wessex, great-great grandson of Egbert of Wessex and great-great-great grandson of Ealhmund of Kent.

It is mentioned by Alfred the Great as aet Haethe ( at the heath ).

* 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great ( b. 870 )

* 871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.

Famous political figures to be sent to the islands included Alfred Dreyfus and Henri Charrière, who managed to escape.

As a result, many of the Vikings returned to northern England, where Jorvic had become the centre of the Viking kingdom but Alfred of Wessex managed to keep them out of his country.

His sons, Alfred V. du Pont ( 1798 – 1856 ) and Henry du Pont ( 1812 – 1889 ), managed the plant after his death, assisted by his son-in-law, Antoine Bidermann.

By avoiding a clear statement, Hitler managed to pin the blame for this failure on the DNVP's Alfred Hugenberg, who had rejected Kaas ' proposals.

The homestead was originally managed by Alfred Giles, an ex-Overland Telegraph linesman, but is now open to visitors.

Such construction is managed by the NYS University Construction Fund rather than by Cornell or Alfred.

Despite the outbreak of World War II, Alfred Hörbiger managed to continue publishing the Institute's Proceedings, in spite of being cut off from all foreign publications and correspondents.

Eighty years later, conductors Alfred Walker and Klaus Heymann managed to put together a semi-complete collection of Johann's works ( according to Johann Strauss II: The Complete Orchestral Edition ).

Except for him, who managed to escape, all the leaders of the resistance were executed in the days following — including Wenzel Messenhauser, the journalist Alfred Julius Becher, Hermann Jellinek and the Radical member of parliament Robert Blum, even though he had parliamentary immunity.

Alfred H. Terry's division managed to turn the Confederate left flank, thus turning the tide of the battle.

Much like Archie Moore and other boxers of the past, Alfred had managed to keep her age a secret, which is one of the reasons why she is nicknamed " The Mystery Lady ".

Originally known as the " Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession ", the gallery was created and managed by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Valiant also spent a brief amount of time in Jim Crockett Promotions in the late 1970s as the heel King James Valiant managed by Lord Alfred Hayes.

Pentti Tapio Akseli Linnosvuo ( March 17, 1933 – July 13, 2010 ) was a Finnish sport shooter, the most recent shooter to win Olympic gold medals in both 50 m Pistol and 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol ( the only one who had managed this previously was Alfred Lane in 1912 ).

To obtain the needed garrison troops and workers to build and maintain the burhs ' defences, Alfred regularised and vastly expanded the existing ( and, one might add, quite recent ) obligation of landowners to provide ‘ fortress work ’ on the basis of the hidage assessed upon their lands.

Alfred set up a system of defensive strong points ( Burhs ); in order to maintain these settlements, he granted them a degree of autonomy.

Alfred Radley was keen to maintain what made Ossie special and so he continued to support Ossie's aspirations by developing the Ossie Clark brand and funding large annual fashion shows, expanding Quorum's retail business and distributing Ossie's dresses to leading retailers around the world through the introduction of the " Ossie Clark for Radley " collections.

In July, I'll Try was renamed Nelson and Boy Alfred became Ethel & Millie, in an effort to maintain their cover.

To maintain unit sales, General Motors head Alfred P. Sloan Jr. suggested annual model-year design changes to convince car owners that they needed to buy a new replacement each year, an idea borrowed from the bicycle industry ( though Sloan usually gets the credit, or blame ).