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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Æthelbald, King of Wessex has received more than 982,864 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Æthelbald, King of Wessex is the 4,096th most popular politician (up from 4,897th in 2019), the 835th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,046th in 2019) and the 139th 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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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 4,096 out of 19,576. Before him are Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Tetisheri, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Michael Shishman of Bulgaria, Hiram I, and Paolo Lucio Anafesto. After him are Gyula Horn, Tigranes IV, Harald Gille, Diodotus Tryphon, Publius Cornelius Dolabella, and Shamash-shum-ukin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 831, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 860, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 3. Before him are Pribina, and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani. After him are Halfdan the Black, and Guy I of Spoleto.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 835 out of 8,785. Before him are Mairead Maguire (1944), Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), Cliff Williams (1949), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), David Coverdale (1951), and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850). After him are William Bateson (1861), John William Polidori (1795), Alan Parsons (1948), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Anthony James Leggett (1938), and Pete Postlethwaite (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 139. Before him are Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), David Cameron (1966), Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158), Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005), and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850). After him are James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), and George Canning (1770).

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