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King Alfred the Great (849–899) was the Anglo-Saxon King of Wessex who halted the Viking conquest of England, promoted literacy and legal reform, and is the only English monarch to be called 'the Great'.
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Æthelstan was king of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 and ruled a kingdom encompassing most of present-day England from 927 until his death in 939. His conquest of York ended the region's independent Viking kingdom, and his charters and coinage asserted authority over a unified English realm. In 937 he de...
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English king Ethelred II 'the Unready' (r. 978–1016) is known for chronic inability to repel Danish Viking invasions and ordering the St. Brice's Day Massacre in 1002.
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