-It is said that when Alfred was four years old he was send to Rome where he got appointed King by Pope Leo IV.
- Alfred is considered a Saint by some Catholics due to his tries to make Christianity more available to the public.
- During his reign, his main focus was on education, reformation the legal system as well as improving the military structure.
- Education; Alfred created a court school for his own children and the children of the aristocracy. He also aimed to open education up to the public. Alfred implied that schools taught primary in English.
-To achieve this, he ordered more texts to be translated from Latin into English.
-The fifth law in Alfred's new legal code issued translations of the Decalogue and a few chapters of the Book of Exodus
-From early on in his reign, Alfred had trouble with the Danes who were trying to invade England. Many times he forced them to surrender or set up peace treaties. The Danes though, did not stop invading until Alfred's end. He therefore protected the English language.
-One of Alfred's military reforms was that he issued the building of fortresses in southern England, which could be used as protection and a line of defense.
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