AEthelbald, King of England^[1]

Abt 834 - 860  (~ 26 years)

• Name	AEthelbald
  Suffix	King of England
  Born	Abt 834
  Gender	Male
  Name	Æthelbald
  Died	20 Dec 860
  Buried	25 Dec 860	Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, England
  Notes	13 JAN 858, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01969 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelbald_of_Wessex «i»King of Wessex«/i» King «b»Æthelbald of Wessex«/b» or «b»«i»Æþelbald«/b»«/i» (Means roughly 'Noble Bold') was the second son of King «u»Ethelwulf of Wessex <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelwulf_of_Wessex>«/u» and was born in about «u»831 «/u» or «u»834 «/u». He became King of «u»Wessex <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex>«/u» in «u»856 «/u» after forcing his father to abdicate. (His elder brother «u»Æthelstan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelstan_of_Wessex>«/u» had already died.) He was crowned at «u»Kingston upon Thames <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_upon_Thames>«/u» and married his widowed stepmother, «u»Judith <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_of_Flanders>«/u». The marriage was annulled on the grounds of «u»consanguinity«/u». He died in «u»860 «/u» and was buried at Sherborne in «u»Dorset <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset>«/u». http://www.thepeerage.com/p10262.htm#i102615 King of Wessex was born circa 834.«sup»2«/sup» He was the son of «u»Æðelwulf, King of Wessex «/u» and «u»Osburga (?) «/u».«sup»1«/sup» He married «u»Judith, Princesse de France«/u», daughter of «u»Charles I, Roi de France «/u» and «u»Ermentrude d'Orléans «/u», in 858.«sup»3«/sup» He died on 20 December 860.«sup»2«/sup» He was buried on 25 December 860 at «u»Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, England «/u».«sup»2«/sup» Æthelbald, King of Wessex gained the title of «i»King Æthelbad of Wessex«/i» between 855 and 856.«sup»2«/sup» He was crowned King of Wessex in 858 at «u»Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England «/u».«sup»2«/sup» His marriage to Judith, Princesse de France was annulled in 860 on the grounds of consanguinity.«sup»4«/sup» On Ethelwulf's death in 858, his son Ethelbald was already ruling Wessex. The remaining South East kingdoms passed to Ethelwulf's second son Ethelbert. Ethelbald married his father's widow. On Ethelbald's death in 860, the Wessex kingdom was re-united with Kent and the adjoining kingdoms under Ethelbert. Both Ethelbald and Ethelbert were buried at Sherborne. 1. G. S. P. Freeman-Grencville, «i»The Queen's Lineage: from A.D. 495 to the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II«/i» (London , U.K.: Rex Collings, 1977), page 4. Hereinafter cited as «i»The Queen's Lineage«/i». 2. Alison Weir, «i»Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy«/i» (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 6. Hereinafter cited as «i»Britain's Royal Family«/i». 3. E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, editors, «i»Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd edition«/i» (London, U.K.: Royal Historical Society, 1986), page 23. Hereinafter cited as «i»Handbook of British Chronology«/i». 4. Alison Weir, «i»Britain's Royal Family«/i», page 5.
  Person ID	I4795	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2009

  
  

  Father	AEthelwulf, King of England,   b. 795, Aachen, Kaln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany ,   d. 13 Jan 858, Stamridge, Wessex  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Osburga,   d. 846
  Married	Abt 830
  Divorced	Yes, date unknown
  Marriage Fact	853
  Family ID	F1419	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Judith, Princess of Aquitaine,   b. Abt 844,   d. 870  (Age ~ 26 years)
  Married	860
  	Type: Annulled
  _STAT	Annulled
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2006
  Family ID	F1428	Group Sheet

  
  

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• Sources

  [S36] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England([email protected]), (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).