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Leofwine is last recorded as a charter witness in 1023 and probably died soon afterwards. His son Leofric was Earl of Mercia by 1032. Leofwine had two others sons, Edwine, who died at the Battle of Rhyd-y-groes in 1039, and Godwine. The name of Leofwine's wife is not identified in sources, he is however, identified as the father of 4 or 5 sons ...
Mercia ( /ˈmɜːrʃiə -ʃə/, /ˈmɜːsɪə/ inglés antiguo: Miercna rīċe latín: Merciorum regnum) fue uno de los reinos de la heptarquía anglosajona, lo que ahora es el centro de Inglaterra, en la región conocida como las Tierras Medias, 1 en la región Central, con su corazón en el valle del río Trent y sus afluentes.
Leofric (b. abt May 14, 968 - died August 31, 1057) was the Earl of Mercia, who, in 1043, founded monasterys at Coventry and Much Wenlock. Leofric is best remembered as the husband of Godiva, who is said to have ridden through the streets of Coventry naked, in order to persuade her husband to reduce the burden of taxes placed on their subjects by order of King Harthacanute.
Leofric, earl of Mercia (d. 1057). Leofric rose to power in the reign of Cnut, as one of three great earls involved in governing England. Loyal and temperate, with Siward, earl of Northumbria, he appears to counterbalance the powerful and ambitious Earl Godwine of Wessex. In the division over the succession after Cnut's death in 1035, Leofric's ...
Brief Life History of Leofric. Leofric of Mercia I Earl of Mercia was born in 0861, in Leicester, Palmerston, Cook Islands as the son of Earl Aelfgar of Mercia II. He died in 0883, in Eng, Utrecht, Netherlands, at the age of 22, and was buried in Algarkirk, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
Leofric, who died on 31 August or 30 September 1057, was an Earl of Mercia, the son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce. He witnessed a charter in 997 for King Æthelred II. His brothers were Northman, Edwin, and Godwine. Leofric became a powerful earl under King Cnut and his successors, and was married to Lady Godiva.
22 de ago. de 2011 · The anonymous Old English ‘Vision of Leofric’ has received remarkably little attention from students of Anglo-Saxon literature. 1 It is a prose account structured in four episodes, each of which describes a vision seen by Leofric, earl of Mercia (d. 1057), and three of which take place in Kent: it is therefore quasi-hagiographical, portraying the earl as almost a saint. 2 The title is ...
