King Alfred "the Great" (848–899)

(32^nd great-grandfather of Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012)

King Alfred "the Great" (848–899)

(32^nd great-grandfather of Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012)

Terry Louis Linton © 2013

Linton Research Fund Inc., Publication © 2013

LINTON & BIRD Chronicles, Volume VIII, Issue 3, Fall © 2013, ISSN 1941-3521

King Alfred "the Great" (848 – October 26, 899), king of Wessex from 871 to 899 was the 32^nd great-grandfather of Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012) with linage through her father Jeff Augustus "Gus" BIRD (1893-1954) and her 3rd great-grandmother Mary ROSS (1738-1790).

Quote: by King Alfred "the Great" (848 – October 26, 899), king of Wessex from 871 to 899 "I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works."

Ælfred or Alfred the Great (848 or 849 – October 26, 899), king of Wessex from 871 to 899, was responsible for turning back the Danish invasion of Wessex and for promoting a revival of education, scholarship, law and administration. His translations of theological and philosophical works into Old English are sometimes said to have laid the foundations of English prose.

Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons". Details of his life are described in a work by the 10th century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser. Alfred's reputation has been that of a learned and merciful man who encouraged education and improved his kingdom's legal system and military structure.

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Alfred “The Great” (847-899) King of England &

Ealhswith Ethelswinda Alswitha (852–922) of the Gaini Princess of Mercia

32^nd great-grandparents of Evelyn Virginia BIRD Linton (1922-2012)

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LINTON & BIRD Chronicles, Volume VIII, Issue 3, Fall © 2013, ISSN 1941-3521

Direct ancestral linage:

Alfred “The Great” (847-899) King of England

Edward (871-924)

Edmund I (922-946) van Wessex

Edgar Aetheling (943-975) “The Peaceful King of England"

Ethelred ATHELING-Ætheling (968-1016) "the Unready" King of England

Edmund "Ironside" ATHELING-Ætheling (989-1016) King of England

Edward "the Exile" ATHELING-Ætheling (1016-1057)

Margaret ATHELING (1045-1093) Saint of Scotland

Alexander I "The Fierce" CANMORE (1077-1124) King of Scots

Lady Aveline Ales CANMORE (1113-1159)

Malcolm de ROSS (1153-?)

Ferquhard de ROSS (1195-1257)

William "Uilleam" de ROSS (1214-1274) 1st Earl of Ross

William de ROSS (1249-1323) 2^nd Earl of Ross

Lady Isabel de ROSS (1289-1356)

Stephen CRICHTON (1329-1434) sheriff of Linlithgowshire

George CRICHTON "1st And last" (1382-1454) Sir Knight, Earl Caithness, Captain of Stirling Castle, High Admiral of Scotland

Lady Georgina CRICHTON (1413-1474)

George TURNBULL (1453-1522) Sir knight, Lord

Lady Isabella TURNBULL (1502-1570)

William ROBESON (1523-1582)

John ROBESON (1560-1608)

William ROBESON (1589-1619)

John ROBESON (1617-1681)

Andrew ROBESON (1654-1719) emigrant, Chief Justice General

Thomas ROBESON (1698-1773)

Colonel Thomas ROBESON (1740-1785)

Martha "Patsy" ROBESON (1771-1836)

George BIRD Jr. (1821-1888)

Thomas Jefferson BIRD (1861-1931)

Jeff Augustus "Gus" BIRD (1893-1954)

Evelyn Virginia BIRD (1922-2012)

33^rd great-grandfather of Kenneth Edward LINTON & Terry Louis LINTON

 ROBESON Branch of the BIRD Family Tree

ROSS Branch of the BIRD Family Tree