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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 912,296 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Æthelbald, King of Wessex is the 4,908th most popular politician (down from 4,231st in 2019), the 1,049th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 962nd in 2019) and the 177th 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

Among politicians, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 4,908 out of 15,577. Before him are Stanislav Kosior, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, Eannatum, Jane Avril, Mstislav II of Kiev, and Albert II, Margrave of Meissen. After him are Peter Stuyvesant, Altiero Spinelli, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Antoine Barnave, Constanze Manziarly, and Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania.

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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 4. Before him are Halfdan the Black, Pribina, and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani. After him is Guy I of Spoleto.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 1,049 out of 7,765. Before him are Geraldine McEwan (1932), John Horton Conway (1937), Charles Spearman (1863), Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854), George Biddell Airy (1801), and Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891). After him are Alan Parsons (1948), David Hamilton (1933), Michael Houghton (1949), Kim Wilde (1960), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), and Stewart Granger (1913).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Æthelbald, King of Wessex ranks 177. Before him are Warren Hastings (1732), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1506), and Alexander II of Scotland (1198). After him are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812), John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1945), William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520), and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868).

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