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Hace 1 día · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
Hace 22 horas · Judith of Flanders was born around 843 the daughter of King Charles the Bald of west Francia and Ermentrude of Orleans. She was named after her grandmother, Judith of Bavaria. Her brother became King Louis II of Francia. In 855, King Aethelwulf of Wessex and his youngest son Alfred, stayed with the family on their way to Rome.
Hace 4 días · In The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century, George Molyneaux investigates how territories under the dominion of the Cerdicing kings of Wessex developed into a clearly defined and conquerable kingdom.
Hace 4 días · El principal elemento de esta evolución fue la pérdida progresiva de poder por parte de Mercia. La excelente serie de reyes que se produjo hasta Offa se secó; y, automáticamente, fue Wessex quien tomó el relevo. Fue allí, en Wessex, donde se estableció una dinastía real que, en doscientos años, consiguió reinar sobre toda Inglaterra.
Hace 3 días · HOUSES OF BENEDICTINE MONKS. 1. ST. ALBANS ABBEY. Before The Conquest. The legend of the foundation of St. Albans Abbey has been graphically written by Matthew Paris, a 13th-century monk of the abbey. According to his account Offa II, King of the Mercians, desired to found a monastery in atonement for the murder by Quendreda, his queen, of ...
Hace 5 días · Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2007, ISBN: 9781843832836; 264pp.; Price: £50.00. Bishops, in theory the central figures in the Anglo-Saxon Church, have received polarized, and sometimes unbalanced, treatment from its historians. Reacting against the assumption—drawn uncritically from universal ...
Hace 4 días · Archaeologists have rediscovered the remains of the reliquary of St Swithun in a crypt beneath Stavanger Cathedral.St Swithun was an Anglo-Saxon bishop of Wi...
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