In the popular series The Last Kingdom, Alfred of Wessex (David ... with most of the other members of his family, he eventually makes his way to Wessex just as Father Beocca (Ian Hart) told ...

A man from Amesbury says he has traced his family tree back to King Alfred the Great. Andy Rhind-Tutt claims to have traced his family back to the Saxon king, who ruled the kingdom of Wessex from ...

In 870 AD the Danes attacked the only remaining independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Wessex, whose forces were commanded by Alfred's older brother, King Aethelred, and Alfred himself. In 871 AD ...