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7- الفرد العظيم – ملك ويسكس
ألفريد العظيم
من ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة
ألفريد العظيم (بالإنكليزية:
Alfred the Great
؛ بالإنكليزية القديمة:
Ælfred
، (مواليد
849
-
26 أكتوبر
899
) هو ملك أنكلوسكسوني حكم مملكة ويسيكس من 871 وحتى 899. اشتهر بدفاعه عن مملكة الأنكلو ساكسون في مواجهة الفايكنغ ليصبح الملك الإنكليزي الوحيد الذي حصل على لقب "العظيم". وكان أول الملوك الذي سميوا بملوك الأنكلو ساكسون. وكان مثقفا ومشجعا للتعليم كما قام بتحسين النظام القضائي والهيكلية العسكرية.
المراجع
1.
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كانوت العظيم
، الذي حكم انكلترا بين 1016 و 1035 كان دنماركيا
Alfred the Great
- (849-899), King of
Wessex
King of the West-Saxons, born Wantage, Berkshire,
England
849; died 899.
Alfred was the fifth son of Ethelwulf, or Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, and Osburh, his queen, of the royal house of the Jutes of Wight. When he was four years old, according to a story which has been repeated so frequently that it is generally accepted as
true
, he was sent by his
father
to
Rome
, where he was anointed king by
Pope Leo IV
. This, however like many other legends which have crystallized about the name of Alfred, is without foundation. Two years later, in 855, Ethelwulf went on a
pilgrimage
to
Rome
, taking Alfred with him. This visit, recorded by
Asser
, is accepted as authentic by modern historians.
In 858 Ethelwulf died ( when Alfred was 9 ) and Wessex was governed by his sons, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, and Ethelred, successively, until 871, when Alfred came to the throne
. Nothing is
known
of his movements during the reigns of Ethelbald and Ethelbert, but
Asser
, speaking of him during the reign of Ethelred, gives him the title of
Secundarius.
In 868 he married Ealhswith, daughter of Ethelred, surnamed the Mickle, Ealdorman of the Gainas. The West-Saxons and the Mercians were then engaged in a
war
against the invading Danes and Alfred took an active part in the struggle. He ascended the throne during the thickest of this conflict, but before the end of the year he succeeded in effecting a peace, probably by paying a sum of money to the invaders.
Wessex enjoyed a measure of peace for a few years, but about 875 the Danes renewed their attacks. They were repulsed then, and again in 876 and 877, on each occasion making solemn pledges of peace. In 878 came the great invasion under Guthrum. For a few months the Danes met with success, but about
Easter
Alfred established himself at
Athelney
and later marched to Brixton, gathering new forces on the way. In the battle of Ethandún (probably the present Edington, in Wiltshire) he defeated the Danes. Guthrum agreed to a peace and consented to be
baptized
. It is in connection with this struggle that many of the legends of Alfred have sprung up and been perpetuated — the story of the burnt cakes, the account of his visit to the
Danish
camp in the guise of a harper, and many others.
For fifteen years Alfred's kingdom was at peace, but in 903 the Danes who had been driven out made another onslaught. This
war
lasted for four years and resulted in the final establishment of
Saxon
supremacy. These struggles had another result, hardly less important than the freedom from
Danish
oppression. The successive invasions had crushed out of existence most of the individual kingdoms. Alfred made Wessex a rallying point for all the Saxons and by freeing the country of the invaders unwittingly unified
England
and prepared the way for the eventual supremacy of his successors.
Popular fancy has been busy with other phases of Alfred's career than that which is concerned with his military achievements. He is generally credited with establishing trial by jury, the
law
of "frank-pledge", and many other institutions which were rather the development of national customs of long standing. He is represented as the founder of
Oxford
, a claim which recent research has disproved. But even the elimination of the legendary from Alfred's history does not in any way diminish his greatness, so much is there of actual, recorded achievement to his credit. His own estimate of what he did for the regeneration of
England
is modest beside the authentic history of his deeds.
He endeavoured, he tells us, to gather all that seemed good in the old English
laws
and adds: "I durst not venture much of mine own to set down, for I
knew
not what should be approved by those who came after us." Not only did he codify and
promulgate
laws
but he looked, too, to their enforcement, and insisted that
justice
should be dispensed without fear or favour. He devoted his energies to restoring what had been destroyed by the long
wars
with the invaders. Monasteries were rebuilt and founded, and learned men brought from other lands. He brought
Archbishop Plegmund
and Bishop Wetfrith from Mercia; Grimbold and John the Old-Saxon from other Teutonic lands;
Asser
,
John Scotus Erigena
and many others.
He not only encouraged men of learning, but he laboured himself and gave
proof
of his own learning. He translated into Anglo-Saxon: "The Consolation of Philosophy" of
Boëthius
; "The History of the World" of
Orosius
; the "Ecclesiastical History" of
Bede
, and the "Pastoral Rule" and the "Dialogues" of
St. Gregory the Great
. The "Consolation of Philosophy" he not only translated but adapted, adding much of his own. The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", the record of the English race from the earliest time, was inspired by him.
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