Ēadweard se Ieldra or Edward the Elder(870 – July 17, 924) was King of England between 900 and 924. He was the son of Alfred the Great and his wife Ealhswith, and became King upon his father's death in 899. He was king at a time when the Kingdom of Wessex was becoming transformed into the Kingdom of England. The title he normally used was King of the Anglo-Saxons, but he is rememberred, as his father as King of England, although the territory he ruled over was significantly smaller than the present borders of England.