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Æthelwold ætheling

d. 902 · 9th century

Æthelwold was a West Saxon prince, the son of King Æthelred I and cousin of Edward the Elder. On the death of Alfred the Great in 899 he seized Wimborne and Christchurch to claim the throne, then fled to the Danes of Northumbria, who accepted him as king. He was killed in 902 at the Battle of the Holme, fighting with the East Anglian Danes against Edward.

Æthelwold ætheling
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