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== Family == Æthelberht was the third of five sons of Æthelwulf and his first wife [[Osburh]], who died around 855.{{efn|Most historians describe Osburh as the mother of all Æthelwulf's children, but some scholars have argued that in view of the large age gap between older and younger ones, Osburh may only have been the mother of Æthelred and Alfred, while Æthelberht and his older brothers were born to an unrecorded earlier wife.{{sfnm|1a1=Miller|1y=2004b|2a1=Smyth|2y=1995|2p=11}} }} Æthelstan died in the early 850s, but the four younger brothers were successively kings of Wessex: Æthelbald from 855 to 860,{{efn|The ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' states that Æthelbald ruled for five years until his death in 860, implying that he was joint or sub-king with his father from 855 until Æthelwulf died in 858. Historians often date Æthelbald's reign from 855, but some date it from 858.{{sfnm|1a1=Swanton|1y=2000|1p=66|2a1=Abels|2y=1998|2p=347|3a1=Nelson|3y=2004}} }} Æthelberht from 860 to 865, [[Æthelred I]] from 865 to 871 and Alfred the Great from 871 to 899. Æthelberht had one sister, [[Æthelswith]], who married King [[Burgred of Mercia]] in 853.{{sfn|Abels|1998|pp=55, 71 n. 69, 347}}
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