who was married to Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians, in the mid-880s CE. That Alfred’s oldest daughter was married to a Mercian lord is indicative of the importance of the Wessex-Mercian alliance ...

In 870 AD the Danes attacked the only remaining independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Wessex, whose forces were commanded by Alfred's older brother, King Aethelred, and Alfred himself. In 871 AD ...