
Becoming an Anglo-Saxon King
Gone Medieval
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The Succession of King Alfred the Great in the Early Middle Ages
By the 9th century in Wessex we see good evidence of trying to line up the succession with some real success, so the classic thing you try to do as a monarch. We start saying under the Wessex dynasty an attempt to preempt that it's never completely successful particularly it's open to rivalry between brothers when you swap generations but we do see a clear attempt to kind of set up these are the rules applied this is how it ought to operate. Do they then also use the sort of longer ancestry and genealogy and things like that to really legitimize their family's place in history as well?
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