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Ælfweard of Wessex
West Saxon monarch · Historical Figures · Lived 904 to 924 · aged 20
The son who ruled for sixteen days - or never ruled at all. Ælfweard's claim to the throne of Wessex died with him weeks after his father, leaving one of early medieval England's briefest and murkiest reigns.
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Born around 902, Ælfweard was Edward the Elder's second son, the eldest by his second wife Ælfflæd. When his father died in July 924, succession split: some sources suggest Ælfweard took Wessex while his half-brother Æthelstan took Mercia. If he ruled at all, it lasted only until August 924, when Ælfweard died - suddenly, and under circumstances the records don't clarify. Æthelstan inherited everything, and Ælfweard became a footnote: the prince whose throne vanished before it was ever really his.
