There had been a system of fortifications in pre-Viking Mercia that may have been an influence. [12][c] Their children were Æthelflæd, who married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians; Edward the Elder, Alfred's successor as king; Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury; Ælfthryth, who married Baldwin, count of Flanders; and Æthelweard. Æthelberht dies and is succeeded by his brother Æthelred. Bei Fehlern oder Problemen bitte das. Alfred was an excellent listener and had an incredible memory and he retained poetry and psalms very well. [104], About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction which includes translations into English of the Ten Commandments, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the Apostolic Letter from the Acts of the Apostles (15:23–29). [150], In 868, Alfred married Ealhswith, daughter of a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucel, Ealdorman of the Gaini. [117], Alfred's relations with the Celtic princes in the western half of Great Britain are clearer. In 896 he ordered the construction of a small fleet, perhaps a dozen or so longships that, at 60 oars, were twice the size of Viking warships. [136], The preface of Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care[132] explained why he thought it necessary to translate works such as this from Latin into English. The New Minster monks moved to Hyde in 1110 a little north of the city, and they transferred to Hyde Abbey along with Alfred's body and those of his wife and children, which were interred before the high altar.[160]. A chrisom was the face-cloth or piece of linen laid over a child's head when he or she was baptised or christened. [156][157] His grandson King Eadred seems to have suffered from a similar illness. [58] The Anglo-Saxon fleet emerged victorious, and as Huntingdon accounts, "laden with spoils". [166][167] The bones were radiocarbon-dated but the results showed that they were from the 1300s and therefore not of Alfred. Willkommen bei Zavvi, dem Portal für Entertainment, Mode, Merchandise und vielem mehr! Secular and spiritual authority were not distinct categories for Alfred. [137] Interest in Alfred's translation of Pastoral Care was so enduring that copies were still being made in the 11th century. The Alfredian burh represented a stage in the evolution of English medieval towns and boroughs. Be the first to review “Alfred der Große” Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire (which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly)." [112] A charter from the reign of his son Edward the Elder depicts Alfred as hearing one such appeal in his chamber while washing his hands. Zu Beginn von Staffel 5 sucht Bischof Heahmund die Burg von Wessex auf. [8] Richard Abels in his biography discusses both sources but does not decide between them and dates Alfred's birth as 847/849, while Patrick Wormald in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article dates it 848/849. Hyde Abbey was dissolved in 1538 during the reign of Henry VIII,[160] the church site was demolished and treated like a quarry, as the stones that made up the abbey were then re-used in local architecture. The Danes were heavily outnumbered, but as the tide rose, they returned to their boats which, with shallower drafts, were freed first. Alfred der Große als Actionfigur Ein besonderer Tiefpunkt ist die Darstellung des Sachsenkönigs Alfred. Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge suggest this also for Bald's Leechbook and the anonymous Old English Martyrology. [106], Similarly Alfred divided his code into 120 chapters because 120 was the age at which Moses died and, in the number-symbolism of early medieval biblical exegetes, 120 stood for law. It reflected Alfred's own belief in a doctrine of divine rewards and punishments rooted in a vision of a hierarchical Christian world order in which God is the Lord to whom kings owe obedience and through whom they derive their authority over their followers. [71], The means by which the Anglo-Saxons marshalled forces to defend against marauders also left them vulnerable to the Vikings. It is thought that he had either Crohn's disease or haemorrhoids. Consequently, in 879 the Viking army left Chippenham and made its way to Cirencester. Sie liefern auch den neuesten Spoiler-Einblick in … [78] To maintain the burhs, and to reorganise the fyrd as a standing army, Alfred expanded the tax and conscription system based on the productivity of a tenant's landholding. Die Erfolgsserie "Vikings" hat ihr Ende gefunden.Seit dem 30. The resulting power vacuum stirred other power-hungry warlords eager to take his place in the following years. [129], Alfred established a court school for the education of his own children, those of the nobility, and "a good many of lesser birth". In der Serie wird er von Ferdia Walsh-Peelo dargestellt. Wallingford had a hidage of 2,400, which meant that the landowners there were responsible for supplying and feeding 2,400 men, the number sufficient for maintaining 9,900 feet (1.88 miles; 3.0 kilometres) of wall. Nichts verpassen mit dem NETZWELT-Newsletter. König Alfred der Große ist nicht nur ein Charakter aus Vikings, sondern auch eine historische Persönlichkeit. Alfred von Wessex wurde im Jahr 848 in Oxfordshire geboren und war jüngster Sohn des damaligen Königs Aethelwulf von Wessex. A letter of Leo IV shows that Alfred was made a "consul" and a misinterpretation of this investiture, deliberate or accidental, could explain later confusion. Although Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, these were the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century. [160] Four years after his death, the bodies of Alfred and his family were exhumed and moved to their new resting place in the New Minster and remained there for 211 years.