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A History of the County of Oxford
… as a portion of the West Saxon kingdom, before the rise of Mercia. The early stages of the growth of the Mercian kingdom … the power of Wessex was unbroken. Penda, the great king of Mercia, is first mentioned in the Chronicle under the year of … date the Thames came to be recognized as the boundary of Mercia, were it not for the evidence of Bede's Ecclesiastical …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Harold, &c. Among the chief nobility, Leofric Earl of Mercia succeeded by his son Algar, who was father of Edwin … the famous Lady Godiva, wife of Leofric, the noble Earl of Mercia, had great posses- sions, and was founder of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… acquired consecration in India as 'Mar Jacobus, bishop of Mercia and Middlesex'. In 1909 he opened a mission in Temple …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… and voyages of discovery from the time of Offa, King of Mercia, to the year 1586. Many are treaties and privileges …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of the country. The celebrated Dyke by which Offa, King of Mercia, in the latter part of the eighth century, defined the … of his lands into a separate lordship. Offa, King of Mercia, having expelled the Britons from nearly the whole of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… in the year 795, between the Saxons under Offa, King of Mercia, and the Welsh, in which the latter, after a severe …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… styled Repandum, and was a chief town of the kingdom of Mercia. Before 660, here was a nunnery under the government … interred. The Danes, having expelled Burhred, viceroy of Mercia, from his throne, wintered at Repandum in 874, at …
A History of the County of Derby
… parts of the shire. Repton, a great missionary centre of Mercia, had an important abbey, under the rule of a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… they stood on the estates of the Crown or the earls of Mercia. The Norman Conquest produced a rapid redistribution …
A History of the County of Stafford
… seem that they dated from the period of the conversion of Mercia in the later 7th century. Bede describes how St. Chad, … of companions for prayer and study. 1 Wulfhere, King of Mercia (657-74), is said to have founded a monastery at …