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 ...

King Alfred is shown on an Anglo-Saxon silver penny. He was the first king of “all the English” and the only English king to be called “the Great.” When Alfred died at the age of 50 ...

Ubisoft has confirmed that he is King Alfred of Wessex, the real-life monarch who ... there may be a plot point that reveals he and his family are tools of the Templars. History indicates that ...