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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… site a college of Secular canons was founded, in 775, by Offa, King of Mercia, who had taken Bath from the King of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… here at a very early period, in the chapel of which, Offa, King of Mercia, who had been a great benefactor to it, …
A History of the County of York
… and a prolonged one from 790 to 793. In a letter to King Offa written in 796 he remarks that the violence of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 752; but it was finally surrendered by the West Saxons to Offa, King of Mercia, who, enraged at the obstinate …
A History of the County of London
… was much neglected after the death of Ethelbert until King Offa proposed to establish a monastic congregation, but was … is evident confusion on the part of the writer between Offa of East Saxony (709) and Offa of Mercia (757–96) who is really the next reputed …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… a royal grant there between 727 and 736, 4 and in 779 King Offa of Mercia reportedly recovered Benson from Wessex during …
Old and New London
… was probably built by good Bishop Erkenwald, son of King Offa, and repaired by Bishop William, the Norman, in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… are some exposed ceiling-beams. ConditionGood. N.B.For Offa's Dyke, see p. xxx. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of the principal and most fruitful parts of Ferregs by Offa, the Anglo-Saxon monarch, who separated them from the … British territories by constructing that huge work called Offa's Dyke, extending northward from the river Wye, in …
A New History of London
… church and its monastery were repaired and enlarged by Offa, king of Mercia, but being destroyed by the pagan Danes, …