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Line 38: }} '''Edward the Elder'''~~{{efn\|The [[regnal number]]ing of English monarchs starts after the [[Norman conquest]], which is why Edward the Elder, who was the first King Edward, is not referred to as Edward I.}}~~ ({{circa\|874}}{{snd}}17 July 924) was [[King of the Anglo-Saxons]] from 899 until his death in 924. He was the elder son of [[Alfred the Great]] and his wife [[Ealhswith]]. When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin [[Æthelwold ætheling\|Æthelwold]], who had a strong claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, [[Æthelred I of Wessex\|Æthelred I]]. Alfred had succeeded Æthelred as king of [[Wessex]] in 871, and almost faced defeat against the Danish [[Vikings]] until his decisive victory at the [[Battle of Edington]] in 878. After the battle, the Vikings still ruled [[Northumbria]], [[Kingdom of East Anglia\|East Anglia]] and eastern [[Mercia]], leaving only Wessex and western Mercia under Anglo-Saxon control. In the early 880s [[Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians]], the ruler of western Mercia, accepted Alfred's lordship and married his daughter [[Æthelflæd]], and around 886 Alfred adopted the new title King of the Anglo-Saxons as the ruler of all Anglo-Saxons not subject to Danish rule. Edward inherited the new title when Alfred died in 899.

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