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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Secular canons was founded, in 775, by Offa, King of Mercia, who had taken Bath from the King of Wessex, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a very early period, in the chapel of which, Offa, King of Mercia, who had been a great benefactor to it, was buried; …
The Environs of London
… died many years before him; and he afterwards married Mercia, daughter of Stephen Heyme 39; for his, his second …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… In 674, a battle was fought here between Wulfhere, King of Mercia, and scuin, a nobleman in the service of Saxburga, …
A History of the County of York
… at first to Addingham in Wharfedale. In 872 he fled to Mercia, but was recalled in 873, and, so far as is known, he … and he and Archbishop Wulfhere took refuge with Burgred of Mercia. It was presumably to deal with this revolt that the … proved unfortunate. While the allies inadvisedly ravaged Mercia, Cnut marched by the eastern route to York. Uhtred …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is said to have been the residence of the kings of Mercia, who had a palace here; and on an intrenched eminence … of the West Saxons, who, revolting from Ethelbald, King of Mercia, defeated him at Burford in 752; but it was finally surrendered by the West Saxons to Offa, King of Mercia, who, enraged at the obstinate resistance of the …
A History of the County of London
… the writer between Offa of East Saxony (709) and Offa of Mercia (757–96) who is really the next reputed benefactor of …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… strategic role in the contested border zone between Mercia and Wessex. Bishop Forthhere of Sherborne may have … grant there between 727 and 736, 4 and in 779 King Offa of Mercia reportedly recovered Benson from Wessex during a … seems to have remained with successive kings of Wessex or Mercia, as political authority switched back and forth. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It is a town of considerable antiquity, the kings of Mercia having had a castle here, to which circumstance may be …
Old and New London
… to have represented King Alfred and Alred, Earl of Mercia, to whom Alfred entrusted the care of the gate. It was …
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