Hi
mea culpa never getting my noble Anglo-Saxon kings straight!
I just gave a mini-bio of AEthelberht of Kent (vita by Goscelin, etc.)
on the other hand Barbara Yorke's book
Wessex in the Early Middle Ages (in is Leicester University Press 1995
from the Early History of Britain Series)
has more references to AEthelwulf the ninth-century king of Wessex
(839-858) father of somewhat more famous king Alfred (and his older
brothers)
and he did take a very young Alfred on a trip with him to Rome in
855-856, passing through the Frankish court to arrange marriage with
the emperor's daughter Judith (later married to elder son AEthelbald who
was really NOT happy to see old Dad back with a new wife)
flipping through Yorke, can't find mention of the Schola Saxonum or
Peter's Pence, an old memory thinks there might be traditions linking them
to AEthelwulf or Alfred, but it that's as reliable as what I said in my
previous post ...
Sorry for sending you down the garden path as it were, will have to watch
what I do with these good intentions (no doubt paving my own road ..)
with apologies
Georges
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
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