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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which he dedicated to St. Peter; and in the reign of Ethelred, that monarch having resolved to divide Mercia into … kingdoms of the heptarchy, Alfred the Great appointed Duke Ethelred, a Mercian prince, to whom he gave his daughter … in marriage, to the government of Mercia; and in 894, Ethelred and Elfleda rebuilt the city, which had been …