From an unlikely beginning, having four older brothers, Alfred would go on to become King of Wessex and the man most would consider to be the first king of England. While he never ruled a truly united England it was his life’s work to bring the kingdoms together by defending against the Danes and their raids and encroachments, building alliances with neighboring Mercia and Wales, and building defensive works throughout the kingdom. While an eventually united England is perhaps his most famous legacy, it is the intellectual renaissance that he propelled (he is known to have translated Boethius, Augustine, and to have promoted the learning of “such books as are the most needful for all men to know” ) that probably shaped the nature of the England to come as much as any of his acts. To this day, no other English monarch has equaled his achievements or has ever surpassed him in the right to be called “the Great.”

1/30 Scale
Matte Finish
Single figure in box