Ælfweard of Wessex

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Ælfweard
King of Wessex
Reign	17 July 924 - 2 August 924
Born	unknown
	Wessex
Died	2 August 924
	Oxford
Buried	Winchester Cathedral
Predecessor	Edward the Elder
Successor	Edwin or Athelstan
Father	Edward the Elder
Mother	Elfleda

Ælfweard (died 2 August 924) was the second known son of Edward the Elder. He succeeded his father as King of Wessex while his older half-brother Athelstan inherited Mercia. Ælfweard, who was probably never crowned, died soon after his father at Oxford.

Ælfweard may have been succeeded in Wessex by his younger brother Edwin (or Eadwine) as Athelstan was not crowned king of Wessex until 4 September 925.

[edit] References

Miller, Sean, "Æthelstan" in M. Lapidge et al (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, London, 1999. ISBN 0-631-22492-0
Walker, Ian, Mercia and the Making of England. Sutton, Stroud, 2000. ISBN 0-7509-2131-5

Preceded by Edward the Elder	King of Wessex 924	Succeeded by Edwin or Athelstan

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