Prince Alfred ENGLAND ¹

   Other names for Alfred were "The Atheling" and ENGLAND Prince.

   Ancestral File Number: B19R-RG.

   General Notes:

"The Atheling", Prince of ENGLAND.

Murdered.

BOOK
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Alfred Son of Aethelred II and Emma Killed 1037."

The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes, Elizabeth Longford, 1991, Oxford Univ Press, pxviii: "Saxonsand Danes Genealogy: Alfred died 1036."

A History of the English Speaking People Winston S Churchill Vol I The Birth of Britain Dodd Mead & Co 1956 p133 "House of Wessex...Alfred son of Ethelred II the Unready and Emma of Normandy Killed 1035..."
p144: "In 1035 Canute died, and his empire with him. He left three sons, two by Elgiva of Northampton and one, Hardicanute, by Emma. These sons were ignorant and boorish Vikings, and many thoughts were turned to the representatives of theold West Saxon line, Alfred and Edward, sons of Ethelred and Emma, then living in exile in Normandy. The elder, Alfred, `the innocent Prince' as the chronicler calls him, hastened to England in 1036, ostensibly to visit his again-widowed mother, the ex-Queen Emma. A Wessex earl, Godwin, was the leader of the Danish party in England. He possessed great abilities and exercised the highest political influence. The venturesome Alfred was arrested and his personal attendants slaughtered.The unfortunate prince himself was blinded, and in this condition soon ended his days in the monastery at Ely..."

From Alfred to Henry III 871-1272, Christopher Brooke, 1961, Norton Library History of England, p82:
"Across the English Channel, at its narrowest point, lay another great Viking state, the duchy of Normandy. A Norman princess, Emma, had successively married both Ethelred and Cnut. A Norman duke, Robert I [Emma's nephew], amiably known to later tradition as Robert the Devil, had gone through a form of marriage with a sister of Cnut. Duke Robert was naturally interested in English politics, all the more because the young sons of Ethelred, Alfred and Edward, were exiles living in his duchy. Had Robert not died on his way back from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1035, it is highly probable that he would have staged an invasion of England on these young men's behalf.
p83: "...Cnut died young (1035), and left an uncertain succession. His throne was diputed between his two sons: Harold, his son by his concubine, Aelfgifu, and Harthacnut, his son by his queen, Emma. Each was strongly supported by his mother. In Addition, Ethelred's sons, Alfred and Edward, were awaiting their chance. In the event Harold and Harthacnut succeeded in turn, and Alfred, attempting to entervene, was arrested and cruelly maltreated, and shortly afterwards died..."
p84: "...[Edward] knew Godwin to have been responsible for the death of his elder brother,Alfred..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol IV, p917, Harold I Harefoot: Harold was made regent of England after his father's death in 1035 because Canute's legitimate son, Hardecanute, King of Denmark and claimant to the English throne, was occupied with affairs in Denmark. In 1036 Harold was responsible for the brutal murder of another royal claimant, Alfred the Aetheling, son of King Ethelred II the Unready (Reigned 978-1016). Harold then proclaimed himself king and banished Hardecanute's mother..."