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A History of the County of York
… century can scarcely be questioned. The rising power of Wessex began to impinge on Danish Northumbria in the reign of … his reign Rægnald gave nominal allegiance to Edward of Wessex and obtained recognition of his new kingdom. After his … compromised earls, and had taken up as their candidate the Wessex prince Edgar Ætheling. Welcomed at York by the …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… role in the contested border zone between Mercia and Wessex. Bishop Forthhere of Sherborne may have witnessed a … 779 King Offa of Mercia reportedly recovered Benson from Wessex during a military campaign. 5 The evidence is not … former Roman town of Dorchester, where King Cynegils of Wessex was baptized c.635 in the presence of his overlord …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… formed part of the powerful kingdom of the West Saxons, or Wessex. Berkshire is in the diocese of Oxford, province of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the estate of Pagham (q.v.), granted by Caedwalla, King of Wessex, to Wilfrid and subsequently conveyed to the see of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1991. H. W. Timperley and E. Brill, Anct. Trackways of Wessex, 8. Andrews and Dury, Map (W.R.S. viii), pl. 14; Maps …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Portman Pl. sch. (q.v.). Acquired former John Scurr sch., Wessex St. (Mile End), as annexe by 1964. Roll 1970: 750 SM. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hilda's East in Club Row, St. Matthew's in Wood Close, and Wessex in Wessex Street. 55 The Bethnal Green Society was registered as …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… (Oxford, 2000) H. P. R. Finberg (ed.), Early Charters of Wessex (Leicester, 1964) J. Foster (ed.), Alumni Oxonienses, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… (1999), i. 847; P. Campion, Recent Hist. of Wilts. (Wessex Ser.); W.R.O. 1099/2; 1409/119. W.R.O. 1409/135. Inf. …
A New History of London
… several princes; until the year 827, when Egbert, king of Wessex, having acquired a superiority in arms over all his …