* January 13 – King Ethelwulf 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.

The right to receive tithes was granted to the English churches by King Ethelwulf in 855.

King Alfred the Great's father, Ethelwulf of Wessex, was originally buried in that church, before being transferred to Winchester-a Saxon grave slab ( possibly his ) remains in the church porch.

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

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

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

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 ".

The shires of Wessex went back at least to the reign of King Ine, who probably also imposed a hidage assessment upon each for food rents and other services owed the Crown.

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.

In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.

593 ) was a King of Wessex.

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

Their next target was Mercia where King Burgred, aided by his brother-in-law King Æthelred of Wessex, drove them off.

* Eadwig of England, King from 955 until 957, king of only Wessex and Kingdom of Kent from 957 until his death on 1 October 959.

The kingdom was probably a sub-kingdom, the object of a disputed overlordship by the two powerful neighbouring kingdoms: when King Wihtred of Kent settled a dispute with King Ine of Sussex & Wessex in 694, it is probable that he seceded the overlordship of Haestingas to Ine as part of the treaty.

After a brief exile at her Westphalian manors at Enger, where she established a college of canons in 947, Matilda was brought back to court at the urging of King Otto's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Edith of Wessex.

In 726 Gregory had a royal visit from Ine, the former King of Wessex, who had abdicated the throne in order to undertake a pilgrimage to Rome and end his life there.

On 10 April 689, Sergius I baptised King Caedwalla of Wessex in Rome.

Cynegils's godfather was King Oswald of Northumbria and his conversion may have been connected with an alliance against King Penda of Mercia, who had previously attacked Wessex.

Having defeated King Beorhtwulf of Mercia in battle, the Danes moved on to invade Wessex, but were decisively crushed by Egbert's son and successor King Aethelwulf in the exceptionally bloody Battle of Aclea.

His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father ( 1492 ), and King of Poland on the death of his brother John I Albert ( 1501 ).

Who the Mormaer or King was at this time is not known, it may have been Óengus of Moray or his father, whose name is not known.

In 1889 Alexander's father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.

In 1894 the young King brought his father, Milan, back to Serbia and, in 1898, appointed him commander-in-chief of the Serbian army.

It may also be based on Alfred's later having accompanied his father on a pilgrimage to Rome where he spent some time at the court of Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, around 854 – 855.

Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala also had another son by an unknown father other than the King.

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.

During his marriage, he had called himself " King and Emperor of Castile, Toledo, Aragón, Pamplona, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza " in recognition of his rights as Urraca's husband ; of his inheritance of the lands of his father, including the kingdom of his great-uncle Gonzalo ; and his prerogative to conquer Andalusia from the Muslims.

Lawhead alters the standard Arthurian story somewhat, in that he has Aurelius marry Igraine and become the true father of King Arthur ( Uther does marry his brother's widow, though ).

He grew up at the castle of his father, and was brought up alongside his older brother Esbern Snare and the young prince Valdemar, who later became King Valdemar I of Denmark.

Arne confessed to her father that she was with child by the god Poseidon ; her father, however, did not believe her, and handed her over to a man named Metapontus, King of Icaria.

Arnulf was granted the Duchy of Carinthia, a Frankish vassal state and successor of the ancient Principality of Carantania, by his father Carloman, after Carloman had become reconciled with his own father Louis the German and was created King of Bavaria.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

* 1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.

King Afonso IV his father, believing that the family of Inês to be a threat to his own kingdom had her murdered.

At the request of the Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of King Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin.

Nine years earlier, Robert Hardy had played Donald's father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in the BBC2 Playhouse television drama " Speed King "-both were written by Roger Milner and produced by Innes Lloyd.