Alfred captured and restored London in 886 and entrusted it to his son-in-law Aethelred of Mercia. The restoration was a major political event: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that all the English people who were not under subjection to the Danes submitted to Alfred. This was the moment when Alfred began to be recognised as leader of all free English.
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