Alfred the Great

The holy and right-believing King Alfred the Great was the King of Wessex from 871 to 899. He successfully stopped the advance of the Danes into Anglo-Saxon England, unifying the country. In addition to being the unifier of Anglo-Saxon England in the face of the Danish invasion, Alfred was a promoter of education, father of English prose, a patron of the Church, and a reviver of monasticism in the country. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Alfred the Great is remembered on October 26 .