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en-wikipedia-org-7171		Alfred the Great - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	17752	1970	77	Alfred was a son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh.[3] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire[a] (which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly)." This date has been accepted by the editors of Asser's biography, Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge,[4] and by other historians such as David Dumville and Richard Huscroft.[5] However, West Saxon genealogical lists state that Alfred was 23 when he became king in April 871, implying that he was born between April 847 and April 848.[6] This dating is adopted in the biography of Alfred by Alfred Smyth, who regards Asser's biography as fraudulent,[7] an allegation which is rejected by other historians.[8] Richard Abels in his biography discusses both sources but does not decide between them and dates Alfred's birth as 847/849, while Patrick Wormald in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article dates it 848/849.[b] Berkshire had been historically disputed between Wessex and Mercia, and as late as 844, a charter showed that it was part of Mercia, but Alfred's birth in the county is evidence that, by the late 840s, control had passed to Wessex.[10]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7171.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7171.txt