What is Edward the Elder?
{{Infobox Royalty | name = Edward the Elder | image = EdwardI-Cassell.jpg | caption = Illustration of Edward from Cassell's History of England, {{circa}} 1902 | succession = [[List of English monarchs|King of the Anglo-Saxons]] | moretext = ([[Style of the British sovereign#West Saxon sovereigns|more...]]) | reign = 26 October 899 — 17 July 924 | coronation = 8 June 900 | predecessor = [[Alfred the Great|Alfred]] | successor = [[Athelstan of England|Athelstan]] (or [[Ælfweard of Wessex|Ælfweard]], disputed) | spouse = {{plainlist| * [[Ecgwynn]]<br />(m. 893; div. 899) * [[Ælfflæd]]<br />(m. 899; d. 919) * [[Eadgifu of Kent]]<br />(m. 919) }} | issue = {{plainlist| * [[Athelstan of England|Athelstan, King of the English]] * [[Edith of Polesworth|Edith, Queen of York, Dublin and Northumbria]] * [[Ælfweard of Wessex|Ælfweard]] * Edwin * [[Eadgifu of Wessex|Eadgifu, Queen of the West Franks]] * [[Eadhild|Eadhild, Duchess of the Franks]] * [[Eadgyth|Eadgyth, Queen of the East Franks]] * [[Edmund I of England|Edmund I, King of the English]] * [[Edred of England|Edred, King of the English]] * [[Eadburh of Winchester|Eadburh]] }} | issue-type = [[Issue (genealogy)|Issue]] | issue-link = #Family | issue-pipe = among others | house = [[House of Wessex|Wessex]] | father = [[Alfred the Great]] | mother = [[Ealhswith of Mercia]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|874|6|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Winchester]], [[Hampshire]], Wessex | death_date = {{Death date and age|924|7|17|874|6|16|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Farndon, Cheshire]], Mercia | burial_date = | burial_place = [[New Minster, Winchester]], later transferred to [[Hyde Abbey]] | religion = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] }} '''Edward''' (16 June 874 — 17 July 924) nicknamed '''the Elder''' or '''the Great''' was [[List of English monarchs|King of the Anglo-Saxons]] from 899 until his death in 924. He was the oldest child