904 - 904 Births, 904 Deaths, Lfweard of Wessex, List of State Leaders in 904, Kursz N, Antipope Christopher, Emperor Zhaozong of Tang (Paperback)

Chapters: 904 Births, 904 Deaths, lfweard of Wessex, List of State Leaders in 904, Kursz n, Antipope Christopher, Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou, Ki No Tomonori, Harun of Tulunids, Llywarch Ap Hyfaidd, Erenfried I, Yahya Ibn Al-Qassim. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: lfweard (904 2 August 924) was the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife lffl d. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply states that lfweard died soon after his father's death on 17 July 924 and that they were buried together at Winchester Cathedral. Manuscript D of the Chronicle specifies that he outlived his father by only 16 days. No reign is explicitly attributed to him here. However, a list of West-Saxon kings in the 12th-century Textus Roffensis mentions him as his father's successor, with a reign of four weeks. He is also described as king in the New Minster Liber Vitae, a 11th-century source based in part on earlier material. On the other hand, William of Malmesbury, relying on a poem, related that Edward's eldest son (by his first wife Ecgwynn), Athelstan, succeeded directly under the terms of King Alfred's will (since lost). The poem had once been considered a near-contemporary authority, but Michael Lapidge has shown this to be based on a misunderstanding of William's reference to "a certain obviously ancient book." This conflicting documentation has led to alternative interpretations, some modern historians concluding that he had succeeded his father in preference to his older half-brother Athelstan, while others maintain that Athelstan was the only heir to his father. Alternatively, a divided rule has been suggested, since the so-called Mercian register of the Chronicle reports that Athelstan became king of the Mercians, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=209918