Edward (870s–17 July 924), known as Edward the Elder to distinguish him from others of the same name, was the second surviving child and elder son of King Alfred the Great of Wessex. Edward became King of Wessex on the death of his father in 899 but faced opposition from Æthelwold, son of Alfred's elder brother Æthelred.

Ætheling

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  • Keynes + Lapidge
  • Yorke

Æthelwold

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  • Downham
  • Campbell
  • Yorke
  • ??Woolf

Æthelred

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  • Keynes, Aethelred
  • Blair
  • Stafford

Æthelflæd

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as previous

Ælfwynn

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  • Bailey
  • Woolf??

Legacy and reputation

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  • Higham

Notes

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References

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  • Abrams, Lesley (2001), "Edward the Elder's Danelaw", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 128–143, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Bailey, Maggie (2001), "Ælfwynn, second lady of the Mercians"", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 112–127, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Blair, Peter Hunter (1977), An introduction to Anglo-Saxon England (2nd ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-29219-0
  • Campbell, James (2000), "The United Kingdom of England: an Anglo-Saxon Achievement"", The Anglo-Saxon State, London: Hambledon, pp. 31–54, ISBN 1-85285-176-7
  • Campbell, James (2001), "What is not known about the reign of Edward the Elder", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 12–24, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Downham, Claire (2007), Viking Kings in Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014, Edinburgh: Dunedin, ISBN 0-7486-1234-5 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  • Griffiths, David (2001), "The North-West frontier", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 167–187, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Higham, N. J. (1999), "Danelaw", in Lapidge, Michael (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 136–137, ISBN ISBN 0-631-22492-2 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  • Higham, N. J. (2001), "Edward the Elder's reputation: an introduction", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 1–11, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H., eds. (2001), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 128–143, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Hill, D. H. (2001), "Edward the Elder and the shiring of Mercia - again", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 144–159, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Hill, Paul (2004), The Age of Athelstan: Britain's forgotten history, Stroud: Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-2566-8
  • Keynes, Simon; Lapidge, Michael, eds. (1983), Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, Harmondsworth: Penguin, ISBN 0-14-044409-4 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  • Keynes, Simon (1999), "Æthelred", in Lapidge, Michael (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Blackwell, p. 14, ISBN ISBN 0-631-22492-2 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  • Keynes, Simon (2001), "Edward, king of the Anglo-Saxons", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 40–66, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Lapidge, Michael, ed. (1999), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Blackwell, ISBN ISBN 0-631-22492-2 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  • Lyon, Stewart (2001), "The coinage of Edward the Elder", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 67–78, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Miller, Sean (2004), "Edward (Edward the Elder) (870s?–924)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 2008-01-07
  • Miller, Sean (1999), "Edward the Elder", in Lapidge, Michael (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 162–163, ISBN ISBN 0-631-22492-2 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  • Stafford, Pauline (1989), Unification and Conquest: A political and social history of England in the Tenth and Eleventh centuries, London: Arnold, ISBN 0-7131-6532-4
  • Stenton, Frank (1971), Anglo-Saxon England (3rd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280139-2
  • Swanton, Michael, ed. (1996), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, London: Dent, ISBN 0-415-92129-5
  • Thacker, Alan (2001), "Dynastic monasteries and family cults: Edward the Elder's sainted kindred", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 248–263, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Ward, Simon (2001), "Edward the Elder and the re-establishment of Chester", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 160–166, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Walker, Ian W. (2000), Mercia and the making of England, Stroud: Sutton, ISBN 0-7509-2131-5
  • Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba 789–1070, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-7486-1234-5 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  • Wormald, Patrick (2001), "On þa wæþnedhealfe: kingship and royal property from Æthelwulf to Edward the Elder", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 264–279, ISBN 0-415-21497-1
  • Yorke, Barbara (2001), "Edward as Ætheling", in Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.), Edward the Elder 899–924, London: Routledge, pp. 25–39, ISBN 0-415-21497-1