Ecgbeorht King of Wessex (Bet 769-839)

Redburga (-)

Oslac of Hampshire (-)

Æthelwulf King of Wessex (Bet 795-Aft 858)

Osburga (-Bet 846)

Æthelbald King of Wessex (Abt 834-860)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Judith Æthelbald King of Wessex 2 Born: Abt 834 3 Marriage: Judith in 858 1 Died: 20 Dec 860 about age 26 3 Buried: 25 Dec 860, Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, England 3   General Notes: King of Wessex (from 855/856), the eldest son of Aethelwulf, with whom he led the West Saxons to victory against the Danes at Aclea (851). He reportedly rebelled against his father either before (855) or on the latter's return from Rome in 856 and deprived him of Wessex, which he ruled until his death. On his father's death in 858 he married his stepmother, Judith. [Nygaard] Æthelbald married Judith, daughter of Charles I 'the Bald' Roi de France and Ermentrude de Orléans, in 858.1 (Judith was born between 843 and 844 4 and died in 870 5.)   Marriage Notes: This marriage was annulled in 860 on the grounds of consanguinity.

1 Lundy, Darryl, "The Peerage.com - A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of England as well as the Royal Families of Europe" (http://www.thepeerage.com rev. 12 Mar 2006), Citing: E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, editors, Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd edition (London, U.K.: Royal Historical Society, 1986), page 23.

2 Ibid, Citing: G. S. P. Freeman-Grencville, The Queen's Lineage: from A.D. 495 to the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (London , U.K.: Rex Collings, 1977), page 4.

3 Ibid, Citing: Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 6.

4 Ibid, Citing: Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 5.

5 Nygaard, Ken, "Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy" (http://nygaard.howards.net/).