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Æthelweard (d. 920 or 922) was the youngest son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith. He was born about 880. That he was Alfred's youngest son by Ealhswith is stated by Asser in his biography of the king ( 893).〔Asser, ''Vita Ælfredi'', ch. 75.〕 Asser also provides valuable detail on the boy's upbringing. Whereas his brother Edward and sister Ælfthryth were raised and educated at court, Ælfweard 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.〔Asser, ''Vita Ælfredi'', ch. 75. See also Keynes and Lapidge, p. 257 note 148.〕 Through Alfred's patronage, Æthelweard became a wealthy landowner. In his father's will (AD 873 x 888), in which he is unnamed but called Alfred's "younger son" (''þam gingran minan suna ''), he is the beneficiary of a vast number of estates across the south of Britain: Arreton (Isle of Wight), Dean (i.e. East Dean or West Dean, West Sussex), Meon (i.e. East Meon or West Meon, Hampshire), Amesbury (Wiltshire), Dean (probably West Dean, Wiltshire), Sturminster Marshall (Dorset), Yeovil (Somerset), Crewkerne (Somerset), Whitchurch Canonicorum (Dorset), Axmouth (Devon), Branscombe (Devon), Cullompton (Devon), Tiverton (Devon), ''Mylenburnan'' (probably Silverton, Devon), Exminster (Devon), ''Suðeswyrðe'' (possibly Lustleigh, Devon), Lifton (Devon) and appurtenant lands, i.e. all his father's property in Cornwall, except Triggshire.〔S 1507. The identification of the estates here is based on the corresponding notes to the translation by Keynes and Lapidge.〕 Since the (late) 890s, Æthelweard attested several of his brother's charters.〔See (entry in PASE ).〕 According to John of Worcester, he died on 16 October 922 and his body received burial at Winchester,〔John of Worcester, ''Chronicon'', sub anno 922.〕 where he was soon joined by his brother Edward (d. 924). William of Malmesbury confirms the place of burial, but places his death four years before Edward's.〔William of Malmesbury, ''Gesta regumm''. II ch. 130.〕 It may have been Æthelweard whose name was entered into the New Minster ''Liber Vitae'', fol. 9v., with the designation ''clito'' "ætheling", but if so, he seems to be mistaken for a son of Edward. William tells that Æthelweard had two sons, Æthelwine and Ælfwine, who died fighting in the Battle of Brunanburh and who were buried at Malmesbury, at the behest of their cousin King Athelstan, who was buried there himself only two years later.〔William of Malmesbury, ''Gesta regumm''. II ch. 135.〕 The connection with this house is prominent in a series of three spurious charters from the Malmesbury archive, in which Athelstan is made to endow the abbey in memory of his "cousins" (''patruelia'') Æthelweard, Ælfwine and Æthelwine.〔S 434, 435, 436 (AD 937).〕 If Ælfwine and Æthelwine died childless, their deaths would have brought an end to Æthelweard's direct descent. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Æthelweard (son of Alfred)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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