King Alfred the Great
Edit: King Alfred the Great died 899AD. The king whom succeeded him was Edward the Elder.
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By 450 AD, the Anglo-Saxon raids on England were a regular occurrence!
The terrain, the amount of rainfall, and the quality of the soil affected the population density in Western Europe around 1000 AD.
Some people have considered that the first king was Offa, in about 774 AD The consensus is that Egbert is the traditional first, so perhaps you could call him the Father of the Country
Stephen I of England was king
Alfred the Great, King of England, did NOT rule a province. He ruled England, a country, because he was KING of ENGLAND. His kingdom was centred in Wessex, (West Saxons). Inmodern England, itv is the region of southern England into Somerset and Devon.