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A History of the County of Chester
… Lincoln, and Oxford, it was the foremost town of western Mercia, covering the whole northwestern and central Midlands, … campaigns designed to secure the northern frontier of Mercia against the Vikings. In reoccupying Chester, Æthelflæd … and the kings of England. Æthelflæd was ruler of a Mercia still partly independent of Wessex, but after her …
A History of the County of Chester
… Lincoln, and Oxford, it was the foremost town of western Mercia, covering the whole northwestern and central Midlands, … campaigns designed to secure the northern frontier of Mercia against the Vikings. In reoccupying Chester, thelfld … magnates and the kings of England. thelfld was ruler of a Mercia still partly independent of Wessex, but after her …
A History of the County of Warwick
… abbey had been founded in 1043 by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and his wife, the Countess Godiva. This move was …
A History of the County of Warwick
… abbot and 24 monks, was founded there by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and the Countess Godgifu (Godiva), his wife. 16 It is …
A History of the County of Warwick
… to have belonged to Godiva, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, during the middle years of the 11th century. 2 The …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 34 was a historic person, the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, mother of Ælfgar, Earl of East Anglia, and … of Paganism in Anglo-Saxon Eng.' T.B.A.S. lvi. 52-54. Mercia was one of the last areas to be converted: V.C.H. …
Magna Britannia
… remained at Exeter a whole year, the Danes removed into Mercia. 4 In 888 we hear of another Danish army at Exeter 5; … says that the Danish army left Exeter and passed into Mercia in the month of August, 877. Other historians (see …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… 811, for then he witnessed the charter of Kenulph King of Mercia, of the foundation of Winchcomb monastery. 5 7. …
A History of the County of Worcester
… chapel of St. Alban, Worcester, was given by thelbald of Mercia in 721 to the abbey of Evesham. 40 In 1092 it was …
A History of the County of Worcester
… foreground of the picture. When in 814 King Coenwulf of Mercia remitted to Bishop Denebeorht the feorm of twelve men … century. In 816 Bishop Denebeorht bought from Coenwulf of Mercia immunities for his estates in various parts of the …