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Æthelbald, King of Wessex

831 - 860

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Æthelbald (died 860) was King of Wessex from 855 or 858 to 860. He was the second of five sons of King Æthelwulf. In 850, Æthelbald's elder brother Æthelstan defeated the Vikings in the first recorded sea battle in English history, but he is not recorded afterwards and probably died in the early 850s. The next year Æthelwulf and Æthelbald inflicted another defeat on the Vikings at the Battle of Aclea. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Æthelbald, King of Wessex is the 787th most popular politician (up from 4,095th in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 835th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Politician.

Aethelbald was king of Wessex from 858 to 860. He was the son of King Aethelwulf of Wessex and his third wife Judith. Aethelbald was a king of Wessex in the late ninth century.

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Among politicians, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 787 out of 19,576. Before him are Abbas the Great, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Murad V, Henry I of France, Staurakios, and Georges Clemenceau. After him are Gordian I, Friedrich Ebert, Edvard Beneš, Abd al-Rahman III, Louis Bonaparte, and Sweyn Forkbeard.

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Among people born in 831, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 860, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 1. After him are Pribina, Halfdan the Black, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, and Guy I of Spoleto.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 220 out of 8,785. Before him are Anthony Giddens (1938), William Blake (1757), David Livingstone (1813), Saint Boniface (680), Catherine Howard (1523), and Guy Fawkes (1570). After him are George Stephenson (1781), John Harvard (1607), W. H. Auden (1907), William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Humphry Davy (1778), and T. E. Lawrence (1888).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 54. Before him are Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Robert Clive (1725), Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796), and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930). After him are Marie of Romania (1875), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), Æthelstan (895), Clementine Churchill (1885), Boudica (33), and Henry III of England (1207).

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