King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons - Episode 3: Aethelstan, the First King of England
Streaming Video - 2013
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Traveling from Devon to Cumbria, Scotland and Rome, Michael Wood tells the tale of King Alfred's grandson Aethelstan's wars and shows how he created a national coinage and established a political assembly that later became the English Parliament. But there's also a dark side, with legends that the king had his brother drowned at sea. Aethelstan defeated an invasion of Vikings and Scots in what became known as the Anglo-Saxon 'Great War.' Wood argues that he was one of the greatest English monarchs, and with his grandfather Alfred, his father Edward, and his aunt Aethelflaed, a member of a royal family 'even more gifted and influential in British history than the Tudors?
Establishing Medieval England
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King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons
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BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2013
Year Published: 2013
Format: Streaming Video