Â This man's earliest military campaign involved helping his older brother assist Burgred against a foreign invasion, and shortly thereafter he won a Pyrrhic victory at Ashdown.
This man isn't named "The Golden Chalice", but Wikipedia claims a poetry collection by Ralph Gustafson named for him "owes a significant debt to Gerard Manley Hopkins". Â Prior to one of his victories, he used a lookout at Burrow Mump to track enemies from his well-guarded fortress at Athelney. Â A large animal cut into the turf near Reading by his soldiers following his greatest victory gives the title to Benjamin R. Merkel's recent biography of him, The White Horse King. Â This man's earliest military campaign involved helping his older brother assist Burgred against a foreign invasion, and shortly thereafter he won a Pyrrhic victory at Ashdown. Â Later, this monarch negotiated the Treaty of Wedmore after defeating Guthrum the Old and his Great Heathen Army at the Battle of Ethandun. Â Much of our information about this monarch comes from a biography written by Asser. Â Also known for sponsoring the translation of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People into English, for 10 points, name this pretty good King of Wessex.
This man isn't named "The Golden Chalice", but Wikipedia claims a poetry collection by Ralph Gustafson named for him "owes a significant debt to Gerard Manley Hopkins".
Alfred the Great [or Aelfred the Great]