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1. Who is the only English king to be universally accorded the designation 'the Great'?
2. A bit harder: this late tenth-century king ruled in a time of peace and codified many laws. He was also the first Anglo-Saxon king to himself have his wife consecrated a queen. Her name was Aelfthryth - but what was his?
3. This woman married two kings and two of her sons ruled after her. She was a powerful intriguing beauty who played a key role in the political scene in the first half of the eleventh century. She was not English by birth - but what was her name?
4. This eleventh-century king was poorly counselled by his nobles, as his nickname tells you. It also makes him one of the most notorious of the Anglo-Saxon kings. Who was it?
5. Trick question since this lady comes from Francia! The twelve-year-old daughter of the Frankish king Charles the Bald, she married first Aethelwulf of Wessex, becoming stepmother to Alfred the Great. When Aethelwulf died she married his son Aethelbald. Finally she eloped with Baldwin Iron-Arm, count of Flanders - but what was the name of this beautiful rebel?
6. This king, the son of Edward the Elder and his first wife, never married. He had lots of sisters whom he married off to leaders all over Europe. He was also the first English king to rule the whole of England for more than a year. Who was he?
7. Way back in the seventh century, this king presided over the conversion of Northumbria. Bede said his rule was so peaceful that a pregnant woman could cross the whole land without ever being attacked. Nice. The king had spent a period in exile, and married a Kentish princess. After a long rule he was killed by the pagan Penda of Mercia - but who was he?
8. Even further back - this sixth-century Kentish king was the first Saxon king to become a Christian. He had a wife called Bertha and a palace at Canterbury, where the first English archbishopric later resided...but what was his name?
9. This eleventh-century queen was daughter to Godwine of Wessex, and sister to Harold who was killed at Hastings. She married Edward the Confessor but they never slept together. What was her name?
10. And finally, an easy one. Although he wasn't strictly an English king, which Danish conqueror and king proved to his court that he could not control the tides, in an attempt to stop them annoying him with flattery?
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