Ã†lfweard of Wessex

Æthelweard (also Ethel weard or Æthelweard; * 904, † August 1 924 in Oxford) was a son of Edward the Elder and Elfleda.

Rule

The B- manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( Worcester Chronicle ) indicate that he survived his father by 16 days, with no claim is made that Æthelweard had been crowned king and he is also associated with any government time. Only in sources of the 11th and 12th centuries, his name is mentioned as a king and reported that he had ruled for four weeks.

These contradictory information on the possible rule Æthelweards be interpreted differently. So on the one hand suspected Æthelweard would, because it was preferred to his elder half-brother Æthelstan, started the successor of his father, on the other hand is Æthelstan claimed to be the only and sole heir of his father had been. Alternatively, a split rule is proposed, since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is specified in the so-called Mercian register that Æthelstan was chosen as the King of Mercia, and William of Malmesbury mentioned in the 12th century, Æthelstan had been educated at the court of his aunt Ethelfleda. Accordingly Æthelweard would have followed his father as ruler in Wessex, and Æthelstan in Mercia, where Æthelstan had acquired after the death of his brother Wessex.

Æthelweard was buried in Winchester.