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known as Alfred the Great
born 849
died 899
King of Wessex (871–99) in southwestern England.
He joined his brother Ethelred I in confronting a Danish army in Mercia (868). Succeeding his brother as king, Alfred fought the Danes in Wessex in 871 and again in 878, when he was the only West Saxon leader to refuse to submit to their authority and was driven from the kingdom to the island of Athelney. He defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington (878) and saved Kent from another Danish invasion in 885. The next year he took the offensive and captured London, a success that brought all the English not under Danish rule to accept him as king. The conquest of the Danelaw by his successors was enabled by his strategy, which included the construction of forts and a naval fleet and the reformation of the army. Alfred drew up an important code of laws (see Anglo-Saxon law ) and promoted literacy and learning, personally translating Latin works by Boethius , Pope Augustine of Hippo into Anglo-Saxon. The compilation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was begun under his reign.
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Adler Alfred
Ayer Sir Alfred Jules
Binet Alfred
Birney Alfred Earle
Blalock Alfred
Brauchitsch Heinrich Alfred Walther von
Alfred Bryant Renton
Leonard Alfred Schneider
Alfred Gerald Caplin
Cerf Bennett Alfred
Cooke Alfred Alistair
Cooper Alfred Duff 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick
Döblin Alfred
Dreyfus Alfred
Eisenstaedt Alfred
Fowler William Alfred
James Alfred Wight
Hershey Alfred Day
Hitchcock Sir Alfred
Housman Alfred Edward
Hugenberg Alfred
Jarry Alfred
Jones Alfred Ernest
Kazin Alfred
Kidder Alfred Vincent
Kiderlen Wächter Alfred von
Kinsey Alfred Charles
Kissinger Henry Alfred
Knopf Alfred A.
Kroeber Alfred Louis
Alfred Mossman Landon
Lovell Sir Alfred Charles Bernard
Lunt Alfred and Lynn Fontanne
Mahan Alfred Thayer
Marshall Alfred
Milner Alfred
Musset Louis Charles Alfred de
Nobel Alfred Bernhard
Oerter Alfred
Radcliffe Brown Alfred Reginald
Rosenberg Alfred
Runyon Alfred Damon
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie
Schnittke Alfred Garriyevich
Schutz Alfred
Sisley Alfred
Sloan Alfred Pritchard Jr.
Smith Alfred Emanuel
Stieglitz Alfred
Sturtevant Alfred Henry
Tirpitz Alfred von
Alfred Unser
Vigny Alfred Victor count de
Wallace Alfred Russel
Wegener Alfred Lothar
Whitehead Alfred North
Windischgrätz Alfred prince zu
Goncourt Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de and Jules Alfred Huot de
Northcliffe of Saint Peter Alfred Charles William Harmsworth Viscount
Tennyson Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater
Alfred Lord Tennyson