This king only rose to the throne after his three elder brothers ruled in succession.
This king only rose to the throne after his three elder brothers ruled in succession. He made a treaty with  his enemy Guthrum to secure his kingdom from the harrying of the Great Heathen Army. Before that  treaty, Guthrum had made him flee to the marshes, but this king was able to maintain the loyalty of his  people and a system of ealdormen and thegns that could muster the fyrds so that this king could deal a  decisive defeat to Guthrum at the Battle of Ethandun. This king is often held to be the father of the English  navy. The son of Æthelwulf, he succeeded his brother Æthelræd in 871 and was in turn succeeded by his  son Edward the Elder. FTP, name this king of Wessex, the first and only native English king to be known  as „the Great.‟
This king only rose to the throne after his three elder brothers ruled in succession.
Alfred the Great