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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… it was originally given to the abbey by Ethelred of Mercia about 700, but Domesday Book ascribed the gift to Earl …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… estate held probably by Aelfgar (d. 1062), earl of Mercia. Domesday Book implies both a large population and a … and Kelmscott, was held by Aelfgar (d. 1062), earl of Mercia. 13 The manor appears to have remained largely intact …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Kelmscott) was probably held by Aelfgar (d. 1062), earl of Mercia. Both estates were still exceptionally large and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Brimesburgh, by Ethelfleda, the celebrated Countess of Mercia, about 912; but it was demolished previously to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… it had been distinguished as the residence of the earls of Mercia. Leofric, the husband of the famous Lady Godiva, died …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the heptarchy, it became part of the powerful kingdom of Mercia. Buckinghamshire is in the diocese of Oxford and …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… near Duke's-bridge. A silver penny of Offa, King of Mercia, with the name of his moneyer, 'Othelres,' was dug up, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… III., and a fine silver Saxon penny of Offa, King of Mercia, have been found during the present century near the … little westward from the town, between Ethelbald, King of Mercia, and Cuthred, King of the West Saxons, who had …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It appears to have been the residence of the kings of Mercia during the heptarchy, and also of their successors of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is the only part visible. In 1004, Wulfric, Earl of Mercia, founded an abbey for monks of the Benedictine order, …