Edward the Elder
In the early 880s Æthelred , Lord of the Mercians , the ruler of western Mercia , accepted Alfred's lordship and married his daughter Æthelflæd , and around 886 Alfred adopted the new title King of the Anglo-Saxons as the ruler of all Anglo-Saxons not subject to Danish rule . 
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