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A History of the County of Lincoln
… than 697. 1 The traditional founders of Bardney were King Ethelred of Mercia and his Northumbrian queen Osthryd; Bede, … certain Mercian nobles, and a few years later her husband Ethelred, like many other princes of his race, renounced the … letters which were meant to reinstate him in his see. 4 Ethelred died in 716, 5 and was numbered with the saints; 6 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the abbey give 1004 as the date of foundation, and King Ethelred's charter of freedom and confirmation granted to the …
A History of the County of Chester
… the three rival founders thelflaed, who, with her husband Ethelred, restored the city in 907, is the most likely, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… group of early royal charters is a confirmation by King Ethelred in 995 of the possessions of the abbey at Ilminster, … d. Muchelney never was a large foundation. In 995 551 King Ethelred speaks of it as a little monastery, monasteriolum, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… his rule the progress of the church was greatly aided by Ethelred, brother of Wulfere, and by Kyneburg and Kyneswyth …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… by the abbey were the bones of the princes, Ethelbert and Ethelred, grandsons of Egbald king of Kent, who had been …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… burnt Wallingford. Cholsey Abbey was founded about 986, by Ethelred, as an act of expiation for the death of his brother …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… PETER AT GLOUCESTER In or about 681, with the consent of Ethelred, king of Mercia, Osric, under-king of the Hwiccas, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… lords who lived during the reign of three Mercian kings, Ethelred, Kenred, and Ethelbald, founded the first monastery …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 676. An Osric who was a follower and perhaps nephew of Ethelred King of Mercia founded the monastery at Gloucester … Bath records the gift by thelmod with the consent of King Ethelred of Mercia of some land on the River Cherwell to the …