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alfred was born into family with 4 older brothers
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traveled to Rome to see the pope at a young age
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First appeared on active military service when he and his brother king Aethelred went to fight a great danish army in east Anglia
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Was crowned King of Wessex
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Married to lady Ealhswith
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Attacked and captured London from the Danes, which brought all English not under danish rule to accept him as king
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He encouraged learning and literacy throughout his kingdom and he himself translated several book from Latin into English
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The monk Asser wrote a full length biography about Alfred, making him the only Anglo-Saxon king to have suck a text, and it gives us a lot of information on his actions and that time period.
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Died still as king of Wessex, was never overthrown.