He is the central figure in Alfred Duggan's 1960 historical novel The Cunning of the Dove.

His portrayal is similar although slightly more humorous in Alfred Duggan's novel Count Bohemond.

Cerdic is the main protagonist in the historical novel Conscience of the King ( 1951 ), by the English author Alfred Duggan.

* Three's Company, Winter Quarters, Conscience of the King, The Little Emperors and Family Favourites by Alfred Duggan

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 was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself " King of the Anglo-Saxons ".

In April 871, King Æthelred died, and Alfred succeeded to the throne of Wessex and the burden of its defence, despite the fact that Æthelred left two under-age sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.

Coin of Alfred, king of Wessex, London, 880 ( based upon a Roman model ). Obv: King with royal band in profile, with legend: ÆLFRED REX " King Ælfred ".

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, preserved in Old English in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ( Manuscript 383 ), and in a Latin compilation known as Quadripartitus, was negotiated later, perhaps in 879 or 880, when King Ceolwulf II of Mercia was deposed.

In the year 883, though there is some debate over the year, King Alfred, because of his support and his donation of alms to Rome, received a number of gifts from the Pope Marinus.

According to Asser, because of Pope Marinus ’ friendship with King Alfred, the pope granted an exemption to any Anglo-Saxons residing within Rome from tax or tribute.

This was not, however, the point in which Alfred came to be known as King of England ; in fact he would never adopt the title for himself.

King Athelstan of Kent and Ealdorman Ealhhere had defeated a Viking fleet in 851, capturing nine ships, and Alfred himself had conducted naval actions in 882.

In the late 880s or early 890s, Alfred issued a long domboc or law code, consisting of his " own " laws followed by a code issued by his late seventh-century predecessor King Ine of Wessex.

" Alfred singled out in particular the laws that he " found in the days of Ine, my kinsman, or Offa, king of the Mercians, or King Æthelbert of Kent, who first among the English people received baptism.

The Alfred jewel, discovered in Somerset in 1693, has long been associated with King Alfred because of its Old English inscription " AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN " ( Alfred ordered me to be made ).

* Alfred Aetheling ( died 1036 ), son of King Ethelred II of England

* HMS King Alfred

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.

Others have associated this poem with the court of King Alfred, or with the court of King Canute.

The best known historical approach involved the Stanford-Binet IQ test, developed originally by the French psychologist Alfred Binet.

Disraeli ( 1929 ) is a historical film directed by Alfred E. Green, released by Warner Brothers, and adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker.

* Prisoner of Honor, directed by Ken Russell, historical advisor George Whyte, focuses on the efforts of Colonel Picquart to have the sentence of Alfred Dreyfus overturned.

Though no Mercian king was ever named Alfred, let alone three, if this story has any historical basis ( which Leland himself rejected ) it must presumably relate to Æthelbald.

The town of Benson, which derives its name from early settler Alfred Monroe (" Mim ") Benson, owes much of its historical development to the railroad line which passed through the present location in town in 1886 on its route between Fayetteville and Contentnea.

Count Bohemund by Alfred Duggan ( 1964 ) is an historical novel concerning the life of Bohemund and its events up to the fall of Jerusalem to the crusaders.

This explanation probably originated from Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male through a confluence of misunderstandings and misinterpretations of historical documents.

Wilkie now turned aside into the paths of historical art, and painted his Alfred in the Neatherd's Cottage, for the gallery illustrative of English history which was being formed by Alexander Davison.

Visitors will find historical items such as the diaries of original settlers ( Alfred Morton's dating back to 1878 ), button hooks for ladies boots, and ice-saws and ice-tongs which were used for harvesting ice from the Birdtail River in the winter.

The West Country dialects derive not from a corrupted form of modern English, but reflect the historical origins of the English language and its historical pronunciation, in particular Late West Saxon, which formed the earliest English language standard, from the time of King Alfred until the late 11th century.

In 1852, Gérôme received a commission by Alfred Emilien Comte de Nieuwerkerke, Surintendant des Beaux-Arts to the court of Napoleon III, for the painting of a large historical canvas, the Age of Augustus.

* The Count of the Saxon Shore, an 1888 historical novel by Alfred Church

Fencing with the German longsword has been one focus of historical martial arts reconstruction since the late 19th century ( Alfred Hutton ).

* May 27 – Charles Alfred Stothard, historical draughtsman ( born 1786 )

* Alfred Dock historical photo

A legend that Alfred Nobel did not set up a prize in Mathematics because of a thwarted affair with Signe Lindfors is not supported by historical evidence.

The episode might have vanished into historical obscurity, except that the students in his road-building gang included Oscar Wilde, Alfred Milner, Hardwicke Rawnsley, William Gershom Collingwood and Arnold Toynbee.

He left the Witness in late 1879 and was succeeded by Alfred Aylward, a colourful Irishman who openly boasted that as a staunch Fenian he had been implicated in the killing of a Manchester policeman – a claim which, like many others made by the larger-than-life Aylward, has not withstood historical scrutiny.

Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

In 2000, the New York publishing house Alfred A. Knopf signed the journalist Sara Mosle to write the definitive, non-fiction, historical account of the tragedy.

He wrote many books for children, chiefly under the pseudonym of Alfred Avelines ; and studies on historical and literary subjects.