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Younger son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith

Æthelweard (died 920 or 922) was the younger son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith.

He was born about 880.^[1] That he was Alfred's younger son by Ealhswith is stated by Asser in his biography of the king (c.

893).^[2] Asser also provides valuable detail on the boy's upbringing. Whereas his brother Edward and sister Ælfthryth were raised and educated at court, Æthelweard was sent to a type of school (schola), where he learned to read and write both Latin and Old English and was instructed in the liberal arts "under the attentive care of teachers, in company with all the nobly born children of virtually the entire area, and a good many of lesser birth as well." Such education would have started at an early age, before the onset of adolescence.^[3]

Through Alfred's patronage, Æthelweard became a wealthy landowner.

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