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Alfred Aetheling

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42: 176:, Bishop of Worcester and Crediton, for the crime against his half-brother; the Bishop lost his see for a while and Godwin gave the King a warship carrying eighty fighting men as appeasement and swore that he had not wanted the prince blinded and that whatever he had done was in obedience to King Harold. Tradition holds that like Harthacnut, Edward the Confessor considered Godwin guilty. 183:
in 1042. Alfred's death was one of the main reasons for the mistrust and resentment shown by many members of Anglo-Saxon society, and particularly from Edward himself, towards Earl Godwin and
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to the throne of England. Alfred Ætheling landed on the coast of Sussex with a Norman mercenary body guard and attempted to make his way to London. However he was betrayed, captured by
141:. Æthelred regained the throne in 1014 and died in 1016. England was conquered by Canute of Denmark later that year, and Alfred and Edward returned to the court of their uncle, Duke 129:
became their stepfather when he married Emma. Ælfred and his brother were caught up in the power struggles at the start and end of Canute's reign.
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In 1035, Canute died, and during the uncertainty that followed, the heirs of the former Anglo-Saxon rulers attempted to restore the
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In 1013, during the siege of London by the Danes, Æthelred and his family took refuge in
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The House of Wessex was restored through the accession of Alfred's brother
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
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succeeded his half-brother Harold, he prosecuted Earl Godwin and
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Miniature of Alfred Aetheling in a 13th-century royal genealogy
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Alfred Ætheling

House
House of Wessex
Æthelred the Unready
Emma of Normandy
Æthelred the Unready
Edward the Confessor
Emma of Normandy
Canute
Normandy
Richard II of Normandy
House of Wessex
Earl Godwin
Wessex
Harthacnut
Lyfing
Edward
his sons
Alfred 54
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Lawson, M. K., "Alfred Ætheling (d. 1036/7)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
Categories
1000s births
1036 deaths
11th-century English nobility
Anglo-Saxon royalty
Burials at Ely Cathedral
House of Wessex
Sons of kings

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