Ælfred

But if men like Ælfred belong to every people and to every age in the circuit of the human mind, yet, next to the posterity of his own countrymen, the German,—whose speech and culture will by continued research gather many golden fruits sown by Ælfred,—with joyful pride may say, “The man is near of kin unto us.”

1845, J[ohann] M[artin] Lappenberg, translated by Benjamin Thorpe, “Ælfred the Great”, in A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], pages 84–85

In either case, however, his [the king’s] individual capacities exercise a most important effect upon the government of the state. The magnitude of that effect in pre-Norman times may be estimated by the fact, that an Ælfred could save the nation, while an Æthelred could reduce it to the verge of ruin.

1873, Philip Vernon Smith, “The Executive”, in History of the English Institutions (Historical Handbooks), London; Oxford; Cambridge: Rivingtons, page 233

It was in the peace and order which this strict rule secured that the Flemings toiled their way to wealth. The counts understood and identified themselves with their people’s love of industry and freedom, and Arnulf the Old, our Ælfred’s grandson by the mother’s side, became the Ælfred of Flemish history.

1883, John Richard Green, “The House of Godwine. 1035 to 1053.”, in The Conquest of England, London: Macmillan and Co., page 512